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Memory testing.
Is there a memory test that will definitively identify a faulty stick or slot? Windows test simply confirms a hardware fault and suggests you contact the system manufacturer, useless.
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Download memtest and burn it to disk or usb.
+1 for Memtest
Cheers, Tiny
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run it on one stick at a timeOriginally Posted by Tiny
On UEFI based machines (64-bit machines) there is no need to run a third-party memory diagnose tool from a bootable media. You simply copy third-party memory diagnose tool (for example MemtestX86.exe) to SSD/HDD and then add this memory diagnose tool to machine's BCD System Store Settings.
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EDIT:
If your computer is equipped with Error Correction Code (ECC) memory - many current microprocessor memory controllers, including almost all AMD 64-bit offerings, support ECC, but many motherboards and in particular those using low-end chipsets do not - then you can look into the machine's BCD System Store Settings to see whether bad memory addresses already were detected and locked for further usage.
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If you qualify this post as crap, then you must know this doesn't care me, rather I find it ha-ha funny.
Last edited by jwoegerbauer; 30-06-15 at 10:16 PM.
why bother with it
$45 a 4gb of ddr3
i swear by kingston
especially the good stuff like hyper x
you waste more $ in power running memtest lol
i always have 1 or 2 new sticks in the draw
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Seymour Butts (30-06-15)
This mentality would have you owning multiples of absolutely everything...
No, Phil's mentality will have a clients computer fixed very quickly and comparatively speaking quite cheaply.
And if I'm replacing a part I don't care if it's defective or not - I throw it out.
Good thinking Phil, I know where you are coming from.
Many BIOS's have a built in Memory checker
In hindsight I should have posted my Facebook status as: "I've blown the head gasket on my 1997 XR3i" rather than "I've just buggered a 14 year old escort".
The police still haven't seen the funny side, my lap top's been confiscated and the wife has gone off to her mum's.
All so-called MemTesters (MemtestX86 included, doesn't matter whether the BIOS or UEFI version) can test only some amount of memory, namely only this which is not in use by the system. So the test result is never 100% true.
Totally agree.
I'm struggling to see where the OP said it is for a client... Maybe he should also have a couple of spare motherboards, CPUs, HDDs, etc......
And I'm struggling to understand why OP needs to test computer's RAM. He didn't say what symptoms made him believe RAM got defective. In 99.9% a computer's odd behavior isn't based on RAM problems.
Last edited by jwoegerbauer; 01-07-15 at 02:32 AM.
I was getting BSODs headed Memory Management. Out of curiosity I ran Windows memory test and it reported hardware faults detected and advised to contact system manufacturer without identifying what stick, slot or otherwise was the culprit. BIOS has always tested the full amount of ram as correct at startup. The memory management heading in the BSOD was apparently incorrect as the problem has been rectified by replacing the video card but I am still curious to see if there really is a hardware fault in memory.
Did the video card have inbuilt RAM? That maybe what failed.
Cheers, Tiny
"You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can't make them think? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
The information is out there; you just have to let it in."
i always have a
motherboard, cpu, ram, lcd, psu's, case, modem, a carton stubbies & a pack of winnies just in case i need something
Last edited by Philquad; 01-07-15 at 01:51 PM.
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Video cards have inbuilt RAM, it's called VRAM (video memory) to distinguish it from mainboard's RAM. You can see video cards with up to 4GB VRAM, and even more.
Don't think OP's video card's VRAM was going bad. This because then a video card A) don't give you video or B) give you corrupted video.
Last edited by jwoegerbauer; 01-07-15 at 05:22 PM.
All of that is probably correct.
Point is his PC gave him a memory management error that was fixed by replacing the video card.
Last edited by Tiny; 01-07-15 at 06:53 PM.
Cheers, Tiny
"You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can't make them think? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
The information is out there; you just have to let it in."
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