seatools question

ThriceNightly · 26 Oct 2011 at 17:45

i have a 1 year old pc with one faulty stick of 2 x2gb ram....tested with memtest86.

the seagate sata hard drive is also failing long dst in seatools for windows

the drive is still faiing long dst with the faulty stick removed.....i will run again to obtain error code.

question. would the faulty stick be a possible cause for the test failure on that hard drive i.e if data is corrupted?

is there anything i should consider doing with the hard drive as a result of discovering the faulty memory stick.?

cheers

Justintime · 26 Oct 2011 at 17:51

Not likely if you know the stick in there is good. Even a faulty stick will likely only cause the program to act abnormally or crash, not fail the disk.

ThriceNightly · 26 Oct 2011 at 18:45

many thanks for quick reply

Justintime · 27 Oct 2011 at 22:28

RMA it?

IAmATeaf · 30 Oct 2011 at 15:04

Maybe slightly OT but I've never had much luck using either the Windows, GUI or barebones DOS versions of Seatools, for me they always seem to crash around 50-60% way through the scan, which is bloody annoying if the scan had already been going for a good few hours.

I now use MHDD.