Memtest86 - bad mem or not?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>I've a client box that is getting random but frequent crashes. Yesterday 
>Memtest86 showed 20+ errors at 16MB on pass #3 and #5 but then ran 
>another 14 passes with no errors. Another mem test program showed no 
>errors. This morning I ran Memtest for 6 hours and 32 passes with 0 errors.
>
>So should I conclude this box has a memory problem or not?

My SWAG (Scientific Wild-Assed Guess) is that it probably has a memory
problem.  I've often found problems that memory testers don't find, but
figure if they find errors, more lileky than not there is a problem.

Bill
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