Why do Linux live USBs ship a broken version of memtest86+ to this day?
@smellsofbikes no clue, don't know how lenovo diagnostics works and newer passmark memtest 10.2 did a full pass without errors
memtest86+ 5.01 freezes on test 1 54% and i've seen it freeze at exactly the same point (just a couple of seconds in really) on another hardware entirely, which is what made me try another memtest
and yes this was memtest from two different liveusbs, which both had 86+ 5.01 exactly
@mavica_again
Because 5.01 was the last stable release, and came out in 2013.
The new 6.00 stable build just came out in October, so only relatively new live discs would have it.
Suppose they could have switched over to the 5.31 beta, but that still didn't come out until 2020. So even if they were willing to build a non-stable release into their disc, there was still a huge amount of time where they were stuck with 5.01.
@tomnardi i'm mostly upset because i nearly trashed 2 computers now until i realized they both freeze on memtest86+ 5.01 at the _exact same point_ whereas PassMark memtest86 10.2 passes them just fine and here i thought i had TWO dead mobos since no stick or slot config fixed the freezes
@tomnardi and yes i understand the disparity between proprietary PassMark memtest86 and memtest86+ but still
@mavica_again
I get the frustration, but guess they just figured putting an old memtest on there was better than nothing (since proprietary version couldn't be distributed in its place).
Think the more interesting question is why it took almost a decade to get a new stable release of memtest86+. I don't know answer personally, but would love to know what was going on behind the scenes.
@mavica_again was the 16/8GB thing you saw, broken hardware that memtest didn't catch, or good hardware that memtest tested incorrectly?