[ltp] memtest86 on Thinkpad 600

[Vivek]

On 18 Sep 2001, Thomas Vogels wrote:

>
> Hello, I've decided to test the memory on my TP600 with memtest86
> (from http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/).
> The program dies--I have to use the little holed button hidden below the
> power switch to turn the machine off.
> Has anybody on this list (with a TP600?) tried to run memtest86?  sucessfully?

iirc, the OS on the thinkpad can't use all the memory - a small chunk is
reserved by the bios, or something, and the OS shouldn't write to that -
Presumably memtest86 bypasses the usual methods and writes directly to the
memory in some way [I'm theorising wildly here :)] and will therefore bork
your machine.

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