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From: ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Memory test
Message-ID: <90319.132617ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 90 21:26:17 GMT
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>From: sbl@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Stacy B. Lacy)
>Subject: Memory test
>Date: 15 Nov 90 20:07:51 GMT
>
>I have a 286 clone and have recently had some problems with memory.
>I have several applications which operate near the 640K limit that
>I have with DOS 3.3.  .........
>
>Is there a possibility of a hardware problem that the memory manager is not
>checking?  If so can I get some software to check it.
>
There are doubtless many diagnostic programs to test memory.  I have used
QAPLUS (DiagSoft Inc) and CheckIt (TouchStone Software Corp).  I currently
prefer the latter.