Short: Disable faulty memory. Version 1.1 Architecture: m68k-amigaos BlockMem 1.0 / SmartBlock 1.0 - 5 Neall Verheyde / 1993 Pyxis Software What it is ---------- Blockmem is a small utility which takes two memory addresses, and allocates all of the memory between them, preventing the system (and OS friendly programs) from using that area of memory. SmartBlock is a program very similar to blockmem. It performs exactly the same operation, but is not restricted to contigious memory chunks (ie, it "looks" for unused memory within the specified address, and allocates around memory which is already used). If the memory is already used, you can be fairly certain that it's not faulty. Why??? ------ If you have bad memory in your computer, and can't get it fixed immediately, it's much better to simply block the memory off from the OS, rather than hoping that a program won't try and grab it for itself and cause the system to blow up. Pyxis Software is: ------------------ Neall Verheyde verheyde@sfu.ca - Computer Science Simon Fraser University British Columbia, Canada David Griffiths dgriff@unixg.ubc.ca - Television Broadcasting British Columbia Institute of Technology British Columbia, Canada Other Pyxis Utilities: ---------------------- ClockTweek - Helps correct periodic errors in the system clock. Purge2.0 - Deletes files in a way that they are "unrecoverable". MemWatch - Helps find program memory loss. NetUtils - ParNet/SerNet chat, and remote reboot. ReqInter - Reqtools.library interface for HiSoft BASIC.