Memory Tester

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was some sort of memory tester for AOS 4.1. I've been seeing a lot of instability with my x5000 lately.
From what I've experienced before, it looks like it might be memory related, but I'd like to confirm.

Kevin

@kishigo
on os4depot is this memtester.

Also U-Boot can have RAM test command. I have no X5000, so I cannot check if there is.
Try help and help mtest in U-Boot command prompt.

And you can also test computer with only one RAM module.

Okay, I finally isolated the problem to my RX 580 video card. Not great news, but it could be worse. I tried an RX 560 and that was a no-go.
The only thing that works is my RX 550 I cannibalized from my SAM 460.

Could I ask what other X5000/040 owners are running as far as RX 5XX cards? That is the card manufacturer and model name?
It would be nice if I could get a 580, but a 560 that works would be fine.

Kevin

@kishigo

It may be best to wait until AOS4.1FE update 3 is out before making any additional purchase decisions (even though that has been expected for years at this point...). You can also try changing the GFX card power settings around to see if that helps.

@kishigo

Quote:Mine is a Gigabyte RX 560. Model name: Radeon RX 560 GAMING OC 4G

Best regards,

Niels

@kishigo

I run a XFX RadeonRX 580 GTS XXX Edition on my X5000/20. Works a treat.

-- eliyahu

@eliyahu

That's the one I have, but it locks up in Quake 2 and glexcess as well as the old Wipeout.

I even tried to set it to Silent mode, but no go. What am I doing wrong?

By the way, I put that card into a Windows 10 machine and ran Unigine Valley and it ran with no hiccups.

@kishigo

ASUS RX580 on my X5000/40.
Do you have the A-eon Power Managent Prefs installed?
If so, what setting do you have, Low Power, High Power or Dynamic?

@khayoz

It's set to Dynamic. Should I change it?

Thank you.

@kishigo

Mine is always set to high power FWIW.

-- eliyahu

@kishigo

High Power here, to use the card.

Anyone knows if the Power Managemt Prefs is reacheable via Arexx or maybe
script something in icon info of power hungry games/apps?
Would be kool, Amigastyle.

@khayoz and @eliyahu

Well I changed it to low power and high power and stilll the same problems. I don't understand it.

Okay. I think I may come super-duper close to solving the problem. I copied the two libraries in the Libs:Warp3DNova/ dir from the Amedia Rescue USB Stick.
Things seem to be a lot better now. Apparently Amedia has more recent versions of those libraries than what's available on the Enhancer software.
I'm not going to ask any questions, but I'm gonna make a backup or two of the Amedia Rescue stick.

@kishigo
May have nothing to do with an unstable graphics card but
rather RAM problems. What RAM sticks you got?
And do a backup of that stick, it's nice, I got one too ;)

Edit: And oh yeah look in Sys:Kickstart/ too!

@khayoz
Yes I thought about that too. I used memtest and it passed all the tests.
Here's the thing though: the memory that Aeon recommends has latency timings of CL10, while the memory I have is CL11.
In the PC World, that doesn't make much difference. It's just a teensy bit slower. I don't know about the Amiga NG World though.
I ordered the memory that Aeon recommends from Ebay, but ran into a snafu and waiting for it to get corrected.

At any rate, the libraries I copied seem to be helping. I'll continue to go through the rescue USB stick and see what else I can copy.
I just want to be careful not to copy something that doesn't work.