[TAG] 2c tips: troubleshooting memory

[Thomas Adam]

 --- Tom Brown <tfbrown at ceinetworks.com> wrote: 

> system recently), run a utility such as "memtest-86". It's free, and 
> available from www.memtest86.com.  It also comes with SuSE Linux, and 

This has been documented *countless* times over the years (c.f. the thread
I gave you last time around about diagnosing bug reports). The thing to
remember here is that memtest86 is not a utility, but rather a bootloader.

-- Thomas Adam

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