[ltp] SIMPLE QUESTIONS -Reply

[Chris Hoekstra]

Ahh, this is great stuff!
I downloaded the cdrom .iso image and first tried it on my main desktop 
machine and it worked great.  Just out of pure interest, here is some 
comparison numbers:
AMD 1600, 512Mb DDR266 (PC2100) memory
L1 Cache: 128k 8551 Mb/sec
L2 Cache: 256k 2838 Mb/sec
Memory: 512Mb 625 Mb/sec

Then I tried to boot the cd on my laptop DVD drive (which DOES support 
bootable cd's, but there are some that don't work for some reason) and 
it just gave me a black screen with repeating 8000's on each line.  No 
biggie, the floppy version worked just dandy.  Here are the specs for my 
Thinkpad 770z:
Intel PII-366  1 at 64Mb IBM, 2 at 128Mb Viking PC100
L1 Cache:   32k 3567 Mb/sec
L2 Cache: 256k 935 Mb/sec
Memory: 319Mb 175 Mb/sec

Tests are running now to find out if there are errors in the memory.

Thanks again for recommending a solution.  This should help out.

Chris

Ross Patterson wrote:

>On Wednesday 16 April 2003 11:43 am, Chris Hoekstra wrote:
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>>Has anyone else had any problem with generic laptop memory?  
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>Yes.  We have a small pile of ThinkPads here, a mix of 600s, As and Ts.  We've 
>been very happy with name-brand non-IBM memory (e..g Crucial.Com aka Micron), 
>and we've had all sorts of problems with no-brand memory.  Problems like 
>random lockups, boot failures, etc.  We used memtest86 
>(http://www.memtest86.com/) to check the DIMMs, and that was the deciding 
>factor - the no-brand ones failed all sorts of tests.  
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>We now run tests on all memory we get in, and Crucial.Com always passes all 
>tests.  We don't pay much more than for no-brand, and we're much happier.
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