[aclug-L] Memory Types

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anybody know of a program that will fit on a floppy/CD to tell
and test RAM on a computer no mater what "OS" is installed? Self
booting disc.

I have been asked to upgrade a group of computers and do not want
to open the cases (see #1 below) till I have the correct RAM in
hand.. but due to the age of these system the RAM could be any of
two basic packages and then the sub sets of SIMM or DIMM.

The systems are AMD-K6 systems..... which currently only have
32meg.

The owner of these systems does not want to upgrade any other
hardware till 2004/5 budget year, but knows that they need more
memory now.

I do not want to take money from their current service and support
contractor... but charging $100 per machine + $45 hour travel time
+ parts co$t seems a bit high to me...  This means that the service
contractor could be charging as much as $600 to upgrade this group
of systems, for labor alone.

This company got charged $65 a few months back to reinstall a font
file that had gotten damaged.... it was the font file that was used
to display the menus for their word processing software, and the
person that called the service contractor out thinking their
monitor had gone bad..... which had really happened to another
desktop a week before.

--David

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