If your BIOS bootable device list includes, or allows you to select, a USB device as the boot media then the USB key should be fine. Otherwise go with either
a CD (the ISO file option, download the .zip one if you're running Windows) or as a last resort, a floppy. That's assuming you've still got a
floppy drive.
Everyone else is probably right, it's most likely that you've got a bad stick. I'd only really worry about Memtest if you expect to get into an
argument with the vendor over whether or not it's broken.
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Cheese will not solve *all* the world's problems...
-- Matt Martin
a CD (the ISO file option, download the .zip one if you're running Windows) or as a last resort, a floppy. That's assuming you've still got a
floppy drive.
Everyone else is probably right, it's most likely that you've got a bad stick. I'd only really worry about Memtest if you expect to get into an
argument with the vendor over whether or not it's broken.
--
Cheese will not solve *all* the world's problems...
-- Matt Martin