Re: RAM Diagnostic software needed

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 07:03:33PM -0500, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> Since I get different symptoms everytime i rearrange my ZIP chips I am 
> assuming this is a ZIP RAM problem. Does anyone know of any ZIP RAM 
> diagnostic software? Something that will probe the memory and tell me 
> what is wrong, what chips are dead or connected improperly. Now that I 
> can't boot netbsd it would have to be an AmigaOS executable. With all my 
> ZIP swapping I id notice that the sockets are a bit loose, but all the 
> contacts are made with the chips. If no one knows of any software to help 
> me I suppose I should put 4MB at a time in the first bank and though 
> elimiation find the ZIPS with problems (but this would not help me if 
> the problems lie in the sockets!!)

Seen the latter.

But of course, you might have not put them into the sockets _right_, and they 
might have loosened up... are you sure they're correctly seated?

If you still can boot AmigaOS, and be it from floppy: there is at least one
memory tester on Aminet, I think.

Regards,
        Ignatios