Any good windows based memory testers (or dosbased without booting from floppy)?

GoldenTiger

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• Sep 14, 2003

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All in the topic...

 

Arkaine23

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memtest86 can be run from a CD-rom, either the DOS version or the Linux version. I included the linux version on Overclockix, a bootable linux cd.

http://overclockix/octeams.com

launch with memtest -a

Or make your own boot-CD for the DOS version.

 

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• Sep 15, 2003

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Why do you need to not boot from a floppy?

 

Arkaine23

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Floppies are becoming legacy devices. A lot of people do not put them in their custom computers.

 

Ralf Hutter

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• Sep 15, 2003

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Arkaine23 said:

Floppies are becoming legacy devices. A lot of people do not put them in their custom computers.

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And if they do that, they won't be able to run any of the DOS-based utilities unless they can figure out how to make a working bootable CDr.......

Personally, I just shell out the $9 and put a floppy in my rigs so I have all the bases covered.

 

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• Sep 15, 2003

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There is one you can use in windows called 'memtest'

 

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• Sep 15, 2003

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flopies are stupid, if i ever need one ill borrow one from another computer, just run the wires into the case and leave it unplugged, on my computers that have floppies i use it less than the pause button on the keyboard

 

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They may be stupid, but for transfering stuff to my older computers, there's nothing quite like the floppy (even though disks are becoming VERY rare at my house ) Once I get a good network going in my house though, I'll probably ditch them too.


I've even got myself an ancient 5 1/4" floppy drive in my system to give it a retro edge Useful for making backups of my DOS 4.0 disks to CD ( ) and playing VERY old games.
... And making people take a second and third look at my system

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Floppies are becoming legacy devices. A lot of people do not put them in their custom computers.

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These are people that do not know much about the computers and how they work. Bootable floppy is the best way to test memory because it is a minimal environment for memory and only DOS residents are loaded, no extra drivers or background programs. That is the way to do it properly.