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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote : Please update memtest86+ to the latest 5.0.x release - memtest86 in Ubuntu 13.10 is 2 years old (v4.2.0)!

At September 2013, after more than 2 years since 4.20, 5.01 is finally out and the development of Memtest86+ is now fully resumed. Regular updates will follow soon.

Please update memtest86+ to the latest 5.0.x release - memtest86 4.2.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 is 2 years old and doesn't support lots of current hardware :(

Memtest86+ V5.01 changelog
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- Added support for up to 2 TB of RAM on X64 CPUs
- Added experimental SMT support up to 32 cores
- Added complete detection for memory controllers.
- Added Motherboard Manufacturer & Model reporting
- Added CPU temperature reporting
- Added enhanced Fail Safe Mode (Press F1 at startup)
- Added support for Intel "Sandy Bridge-E" CPUs
- Added support for Intel "Ivy Bridge" CPUs
- Added preliminary support for Intel "Haswell" CPUs
- Added preliminary support for Intel "Haswell-ULT" CPUs
- Added support for AMD "Kabini" (K16) CPUs
- Added support for AMD "Bulldozer" CPUs
- Added support for AMD "Trinity" CPUs
- Added support for AMD E-/C-/G-/Z- "Bobcat" CPUs
- Added support for Intel Atom "Pineview" CPUs
- Added support for Intel Atom "Cedar Trail" CPUs
- Added SPD detection on most AMD Chipsets
- Enforced Coreboot support
- Optimized run time for faster memory error detection
- Rewriten lots of memory timings detection code
- Corrected bugs, bugs and more bugs

Tips : F1 will enable fail-safe mode, F2 will enable SMP Mode (disabled by default) and F3 will trigger an hidden alternative SMP Mode.

See http://memtest.org/#change for more info