Re: RedHat 9 on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX170

Lawrence MacIntyre <[email protected]> 25 Aug 2003 09:53:30 -0400
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http://www.memtest86.com/ is the best memory tester I know of.   For
disks, there are several choices.  Hitachi and Maxtor have diagnostic
utilities available.  If the disk is SMART-enabled, you can get that
information from the smartmontools package.


On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 10:56, Mark Canada wrote:
> Thanks Lawrence for the response. I was thinking that myself.
> Can you recommend any good free diagnostics that I can run. I don't
> think my laptop came with any to speak of.
> I did recently (3 months ago) purchase an additional 256meg of memory to
> add to the 128meg on board. I wonder if something is not right with
> that.
>=20
> Thanks again!
--=20
    Lawrence MacIntyre     865.574.8696     [email protected]
               Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High Performance Information Infrastructure Technology Group

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