[aclug-L] Re: Memory Types

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Memtest86 may do what you want - http://www.memtest86.com/.

Curtis H.

--- David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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