Memtest wont run any ideas?

geordie56 · 10 May 2009 at 22:58

Hi i am trying to increase my overclock but want to check my ram first to make sure its ok. I have downloaded memtest and unzipped it then put the iso file on disc. Now when i switch on i have selected boot from cd, nothin happens and it just boots straight to os? Any ideas guys have i downloaded it and put it on disc correctly is there a certain way to do this as i have also tried the floppy and no joy.

mame · 10 May 2009 at 23:13

I might be wrong here but if you had an iso you would have to mount it in windows and then do a 'disc to disc' copy onto a physical disc. An iso is pretty much a dump of data.

game4it · 10 May 2009 at 23:27

geordie56 said:
Hi i am trying to increase my overclock but want to check my ram first to make sure its ok. I have downloaded memtest and unzipped it then put the iso file on disc. Now when i switch on i have selected boot from cd, nothin happens and it just boots straight to os? Any ideas guys have i downloaded it and put it on disc correctly is there a certain way to do this as i have also tried the floppy and no joy.

Why not try the windows version?
It works well.
MemTest 3.8 is the latest one i think.

JonJ678 · 10 May 2009 at 23:45

Iso is a literal bit by bit copy of a cd. If you can't burn an iso to a cd with all the help of google to assist, I suspect overclocking is not for you.

Nonetheless, check the md5 sum of the image, burn at slower speed, burn with reasonable software.
If you install ubuntu somewhere, it'll let you boot memtest from the hard drive when you turn the computer on. This is how I run it.

Good luck.

geordie56 · 11 May 2009 at 22:07

Ive sorted it , its because i was trying to burn to dvd disc not cd and it wouldnt let me thats all. Cheers guys memorys fine anyway just wanted to do a check.