MemTest86

snips86x · 14 Apr 2021 at 14:06

How broken is broken? 25 mins in and I have 1614 errors...

snips86x · 14 Apr 2021 at 14:07

27 mins, 2311 errors

snips86x · 14 Apr 2021 at 14:10

chroniclard said:
Why are you leaving it going?

The corsair guy wants the results. Honestly, in 23 years of doing this, I've never had to RMA RAM before. Shall I stop it then?

snips86x · 14 Apr 2021 at 14:19

chroniclard said:
Never used it myself, will it actually end?

Apparently it runs 4 passes of whatever tests its doing. I've stopped it and emailed Corsair with the outcome as I need my PC back for work.

3913 errors. At least I still have 16gb to use lol.

snips86x · 14 Apr 2021 at 15:27

GregI said:
Just incase can you go over what cpu, mobo and ram it is?

I am skeptical about RAM being an issue most of the time. It's tested at the factory and then shipped out. The chips don't suddenly say "sorry chief i ain't doing this speed no more". Make sure you do a full cmos reset to get rid of any weird settings from previous ram and also make sure you have the RAM in the correct slots.

This was the original set I purchased when I moved to AM4. I later picked up another 16gb set, identicle set that is, to give me 32gb.
5900x (stock)
B550 tomahawk
32gb DDR4 Corsair Vengeance Pro (now 16gb and running under XMP)

Tested the 2nd set I purchased, was fine, 1st set was showing errors.

snips86x · 14 Apr 2021 at 15:34

tamzzy said:
Really?
I've had a few sticks that were DOA and exactly what sinps is describing - truck loads of errors with memtest at stock

yeah, def not tested :cry:

snips86x · 22 Apr 2021 at 12:12

Cyber-Mav said:
id not be using that pc for any sort of work...

I had a 2nd set of ram in it. Running 4x8gb.

snips86x · 2 Jun 2021 at 06:46

megatron said:
I have a B550 tomahawk and I'm having trouble getting memtest86 to start. I used it with a Gigabyte X570 aorus elite no problems. Only option I can't try it using CSM instead of UEFI mode because the bios doesn't seem to have that option. I wanted to start trying a bit of overclocking but don't want to risk loading windows without first a pass of test #7 memtest86+.

You booting it off a pen drive i assume? I'm not sure I can be of much help, I just created the bootable drive from the ISO and then rebooted and selected the drive under F12 boot options (if it's F12).