Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/19/18:04:31
Winfried Salomon wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:28:45 -0700, Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Nate,
>
> >
> >If you'd rather not reinvent the wheel, there is a nice memory tester
> >called memtest86. You put it on a floppy and boot, so it sees raw
> >memory and is OS-independent.
> >
> >ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/hardware/memtest86-1.4a.tar.gz
> >
> >Extract the file image.bin, put it on a floppy using rawrite
> >(ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/install/rawrite3.{com,doc}),
> >and boot from it. Then leave it there for a while.
> >--
>
> thank you very much for your hint. I got these programs, but
> rawrite3.com unfortunally doesn't work, it hangs up my computer. I
> booted from system-disk (DOS 7.10 from Win98) but all what I can see
> is 'Turbo-C', sometimes a german message to insert a disk with
> command.com, but either the program finishes immediately or it hangs
> up.
>
> Greetings, Winfried
I don't know where to get it from the net, althogh it should be
on sunsite and others, but try rawrite2.exe
^^^
I had the same problem, and using an exe helped a lot.
Hope it does the same thing. (I am 99.9% sure it does,
as I have used it for a similar purpose.)
Peter Allen
p.s. if you can't find it on sunsite you can get it from
ftp.debian.org I think it is in the ezimages directory.
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