Memory Problems

PyroboyUK · 4 Jul 2006 at 17:57

After my recent pc problem i think i have narrowed it down ot the memory being faulty. Can anyone advise a good Memory tester out on the net.

Thanks for the help

dafloppyone · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:00

sys internals does a memory burn test dont know if that would be of use

Minstadave · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:19

Memtest86+ is as good as it gets. Make a bootable CD and use that, test 5 and test 8 are especially good.

http://www.memtest.org/

Or burn an UltimateBootCD, it has memtest and a whole raft of other programs on it:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

PyroboyUK · 5 Jul 2006 at 13:14

Cheers thanks for your help, Will try out MemTest. Hope it works for me

PyroboyUK · 6 Jul 2006 at 17:04

Quick question about Mem Test 86+, i downloaded the Ultimate boot Cd and it looks awsome (so much stuff on it) and i ran a memory test, i just selected Mem Test 86+ and it went off auto just doing its tests, i needed to use the pc so i couldnt keep going with the test but it reached 1 Hour and 30mins, How long does a memory test usually take on 1gb of RAM?

Minstadave · 6 Jul 2006 at 21:34

PyroboyUK said:
Quick question about Mem Test 86+, i downloaded the Ultimate boot Cd and it looks awsome (so much stuff on it) and i ran a memory test, i just selected Mem Test 86+ and it went off auto just doing its tests, i needed to use the pc so i couldnt keep going with the test but it reached 1 Hour and 30mins, How long does a memory test usually take on 1gb of RAM?

Memtest will just keep looping, its best to tell it to loop test 5 or 8 (press C then follow the options), 30 minutes of looping is pretty decent stability