mindwave Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 i'm having an issue so i thought I'd run memtest the system is an AMD athalon 1200 with 100MHZ FSB and 133 ddr ram. i Started running memtest when i went to bed and 6 hours later it was on test 7 reported NO errors, but I was just wondering if it should be taking that long. i realize the pc isnt a speed demon but i'll use it as a server as long as i can! j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 If you're waiting for it to finish, you'll be waiting a long time. :) It cycles, it just runs over and over. If it shows no errors after an all-night cycle then your RAM is fine. Just stop it and reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 I agree with adamw. Let it run overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted September 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 cool thanks for the advice so my ram is good, now i wonder why my screen blanks after tyhe initial choices screeb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 my screen blanks after the initial choices screen I had this problem intermittently with my 2008.0 install. I was able to rectify this by changing the Plug & Play OS option in my bios from NO to YES. You also might want to experiment with ACPI boot options from within MCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfoss Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 I agree with daniewicz that you should experiment with the ACPI settings. As your PC is relatively old, you may actually cause more issues that you are solving. I would recommend experimenting with ACPI by using the kernel boot options than making them in MCC as they are more easy to recover from this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 well since i cant get to mcc, I'll have to try them at the boot level :) j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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