On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 03:05 +0000, richard mullens wrote: > I just built a new machine and booted up with FC3 and SuSE Professional > 9.1 installation DVDs. > > I tried the memory test that is available on the SuSE installation and > pretty quickly it found a bit that read back as zero when 1 was written. > As I had two DIMMs installed, I swapped them around and the bad bit > moved to the other address bank - as expected. > > I think that such a test function would be useful in FC4 - unless (and > here I'm showing my ignorance) the boot sequence tests memory and marks > bad memory as unavailable. I'm not familiar with the SuSE memory test, but there is isolinux/memtest on CD #1. > Can one can tell the system about bad memory ? Don't think so. Phil