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    Question about memtest

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by fifafreak18, Feb 28, 2010.

  1. fifafreak18

    fifafreak18 Notebook Evangelist

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    Recently my desktop (in sig) has been BSoD a lot while playing WoW, i figured it was either vid driver or RAM problem. So i ran memtest, for the first time, and it froze 42% of the way through with 9 errors. So i hard restarted and ran it all night. When i woke up it was just finishing, 100% with no errors, and it started running again so i stopped it.

    Any reason why it would report errors (and freeze) one time then pass?
     
    fifafreak18, Feb 28, 2010
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  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Are you talking about Vista/Win7 built in memory test , if so have you tried removing the memory sticks and swapping them around , just to make sure they have a good connection, also you can try running a memory test with only 1 stick and then with the other to see if one is faulty if any.

    Memtest86+ is the best memory tester , but you will need to burn a cd or floppy.

    http://www.memtest.org/
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Feb 28, 2010
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  3. fifafreak18

    fifafreak18 Notebook Evangelist

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    i ran memtest86+ off a cd in xp
     
    fifafreak18, Feb 28, 2010
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    Padmé, Mar 1, 2010
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