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Re: memtest86

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On 9/14/23 22:17, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> latest version is 10.6, get it at:
>> <https://www.memtest86.com/download.html>
> 
This, Stefan, looks exactly like the memtest86 we've all been using for 
nearly 30 years. Possibly under new management, and you may not agree 
with the pro version costing money, but TANSTAAFL is a universal law. 
Somebody has to pay the bills. If you think the peanuts are free, check 
the price of the beer.

> Freeware!  Eww!
> 
> I recommend https://www.memtest.org/ instead (admittedly, until a year
> or two ago, this Free Software was severely outdated and didn't really
> work with UEFI, but things have picked up again since).
> 
I've pulled this on down too, but the previews don't quite look like the 
old familiar one I found above. And with all the caveats discussed in 
the faq list, I'll be a bit spooky. Like running it w/o a net cable so 
it can't call home.

But I'll burn the 64 bit grub iso to a dvd and try it. I have had 
several "use the back panel power switch" to recover from lockups since 
being forced to upgrade to bookworm by something wiping my passwd during 
a bullseye update. bookworm does NOT like my raid10 /home, taking from 
30 secs to 5 minutes to open the file requestor just to save this 
download. Perhaps this one can tell me something the v9.4 I got from my 
link didn't. Lockups that are strange, the mouse pointer still moves 
normally, but clicks are ignored and so is the keyboard.  The cute 
analog clock is frozen, as is the rest of the gkrellm display.
> 
>          Stefan
Take care and stay well..

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memtest86 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 16:20 +0200
  Re: memtest86 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 18:50 +0200
    Re: memtest86 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-13 21:50 +0200
      Re: memtest86 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 22:40 +0200
        Re: memtest86 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 22:50 +0200
          Re: memtest86 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 23:00 +0200
            Re: memtest86 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 12:40 +0200
      Re: memtest86 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 12:30 +0200
        Re: memtest86 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 22:40 +0200
          Re: memtest86 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-14 23:10 +0200
            Re: memtest86 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-09-15 04:20 +0200
              Re: memtest86 Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-09-15 09:10 +0200
              Re: memtest86 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-15 11:30 +0200
                Re: memtest86 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-09-15 15:40 +0200
                Re: memtest86 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-15 18:30 +0200
                Re: memtest86 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-09-15 19:50 +0200
                Re: memtest86 gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-15 20:30 +0200
                Re: memtest86 Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2023-09-18 21:30 +0200
          Re: memtest86 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-09-14 23:20 +0200
  Re: memtest86 (solved) Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-20 13:40 +0200

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