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?
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?
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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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?
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?...
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
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?
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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