I need to increase the memory in my machine, which uses a P3V4X motherboard. The 128 MB DIMM that's there fails test with memtest86 so I'm going to remove it. (Note that it doesn't noticably cause trouble during normal use, and it passes the POST - it's only after lengthy stress-testing that...
I wrote an article a while back about using test suites to test new Linux kernels. The tests I link to in the article would also be good for just testing out your hardware, particularly in a stressful way, or checking the basic health of your machine.
There is memtest86, which runs as its own...
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