re how to search for bad memory chips in article n s b w w c cat uucp david c cat uucp dave writes i came upon this idea i would like to share with everyone to check for bad memory chips create a boot disk with emm himem sys and ramdrive sys in the config autoexec bat boot the pc to create a ram drive as large as possible use a disk repair utility i use ndd run it on the ram drive yes it will run its only a device driver run or so passes they go very quick if your machine fails there is a definate bad memory chip if your machine passes there is a conflict with programs you are loading in memory it s an interesting idea but the worst case data patterns developed to test magnetic media are totally different than the patterns used to detect common faults in memory chips bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com
