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    dead keyboard during memtest

    I am running memtest on my computer, and it shows "pass complete, no errors. Press esc to exit"
    That's all good, but my keyboard is dead:S

    Is it dangerous to force-shutdown during a memtest?

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    Re: dead keyboard during memtest

    Perhaps our memtests are different, I'm running Hardy. My memtest runs forever (at least it did in Gutsy, never really tried it in Hardy) and doesn't stop unless I tell it to...
    HTH,
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    Re: dead keyboard during memtest

    Yeah, mine keeps running to, but it says underneath "pass complete"

    Anyway, now I want to stop it. But how to do that without a keyboard?

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    Re: dead keyboard during memtest

    I know you're saying 'no keyboard', I'd still try: Esc, Ctrl Break, Ctrl c, q, Ctrl-ALT-Del, I frankly don't remember how I stopped mine but it must've been one of the above...Isn't this fun?...

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    Re: dead keyboard during memtest

    Thanks for your help, but I've tried all the commands. The keyboard just don't work...
    f. ex. I press caps lock, but the indicator doesn't light up.

    What I'm really wondering is: Will it damage my computer if I force-shutdown?

    PS: I am running on a mac

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    Re: dead keyboard during memtest

    Quote Originally Posted by Daniel1994 View Post
    I am running memtest on my computer, and it shows "pass complete, no errors. Press esc to exit"
    That's all good, but my keyboard is dead:S

    Is it dangerous to force-shutdown during a memtest?
    Maybe your BIOS has USB keyboards turned off? Anyway, no, it's not at all dangerous to power down during memtest - there are no mounted filesystems.

    And memtest will go on forever. Some memory issues only appear after hours. For example, one of the later passes writes a specific pattern to ram, waits 30 minutes and then goes back to see of the pattern is still there. It will repeat that many times.

    To do a thorough memtest, you need to let it run for hours.
    I lost a "z". Anyone seen it around here?

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    Re: dead keyboard during memtest

    Thanks a lot, both of you.

    I performed a force-shutdown, and my system is not more broken than it was in the first place

    Im off to reinstall now

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