[Coco] VCC and NitrOS9

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 July 2013 15:40:32 Bill did opine:

> O.K., I ran memtest86 v4.20 for 15 minutes and it showed no errors. So,
> I'm back where I started from. I still have no idea
> 
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> On Behalf Of Marc Charbonneau
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC and NitrOS9
> 
> A program causing Windows to reboot is usually the sign of bad memory. I
> would run MEMTEST on that machine and see what it finds.
 
15 minutes Bill?  That isn't long enough to get thru the first test loop 
unless you only have 256 megs of dram in the machine.  Memtest86 bangs on 
it with at least 256 different bit patterns, and typically takes around 2 
hours per main loop completion on this machine with 4Gb of dram and a quad 
core phenom cpu.  I normally let it run 10 passes or so because I have seen 
it run 6 passes before one bit finally failed at 4096 byte address 
intervals all up and down the whole 4Gb map.

Cheers, Gene
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