bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) (01/14/88)
Hello! I have (finally) installed a megabyte of memory in my AT past the original 1mb. There is apparently a bad chip in it. The memory test program I got with the expansion board (Everex) simply hangs the machine. Does anyone have a good memory test program for AT memory past 1mb? (Note: this is not EMS memory). I would prefer to avoid the tried and true technique of swapping chips 1 at a time (there are 36 of them!). Thanks in advance.
yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan Chang) (01/19/88)
In article <1461@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes: > >Does anyone have a good memory test program for AT memory past 1mb? >(Note: this is not EMS memory). I would prefer to avoid the tried and >true technique of swapping chips 1 at a time (there are 36 of them!). There's a program in Mace Utilities which tests Extended memory on an AT. Also points out if your AT has problems accessing Extended memory (some BIOS have trouble writing to Extended memory). There are also other programs in Mace which make the package worthwhile (like the best harddisk optimizer there is). If you also need harddisk management utilities, then Mace is a good buy. Disclaimer: Paul Mace?!? Who'z dat? -- Yuan Chang UUCP: {ihnp4,uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!nosc!uhccux!yuan ARPA: uhccux!yuan@nosc.MIL "Wouldn't you like to INTERNET: yuan@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU be an _A_m_i_g_o_i_d too?!?"
norm@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) (01/28/88)
In article <1452@uhccux.UUCP>, yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan Chang) writes: > In article <1461@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes: > >Does anyone have a good memory test program for AT memory past 1mb? > > There's a program in Mace Utilities which tests Extended memory > on an AT. Also points out if your AT has problems accessing Extended > memory (some BIOS have trouble writing to Extended memory). There are > also other programs in Mace which make the package worthwhile (like the > best harddisk optimizer there is). If you also need harddisk management > utilities, then Mace is a good buy. Mace is a fine product and will work fine for your purposes. However in the latest Version of the Mace utilities (Version 4.1) there is a bug in the UnFragment program (I found this out when I called Mace Tech support to find out why It was'nt working for me) which can be dangerous to SOME disk drives. ALL OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS APPEAR TO WORK FINE so If you have Mace 4.1 don't use UnFragment until you get the official fix from MACE. -- Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment UUCP: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!---\ VOICE: +1 416 323 2623 {utzoo,utgpu}!sickkids!ontenv!norm ENVOY: N.SOLEY {mnetor,utgpu}!ontmoh/