Best Program to test for Bad Memory ?

[OriginalDesmond]

a lot of program crashes indicates i may have bad memory

what is the best program to test for bad memory ?

is a software test enough ?

should i get a technician to look things over ?

cheers

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: OriginalDesmond
a lot of program crashes indicates i may have bad memory

what is the best program to test for bad memory ?

is a software test enough ?

should i get a technician to look things over ?

cheers

memtest is a good one

it should be more than enough

technichian is probably a last case senario



mike

from here

 

[Corporate Thug]

yup, memtest is the way to go

 

[RalfHutter]

Memtest86 is a much more thorough test than the one linked above. It finds errors that the other test doesn't. Another good one is GoldMemory.

 

[etech]

Whichever test you run, let it run overnight. Memory errors do not always show up in a single pass.

Test 5 on memtest86 seems to be the most difficult for overclocked memory to pass. You may want to let it loop through the entire test for at least 10 passes and then just run test 5 for awhile longer for the best check.

For some more tests and info.
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[dnuggett]

As others have said Memtest would work well.

 

[Markfw]

This may sound crazy, but I have a system that passed every test in the world, and ran stable as could be, until I tried to play C&C Generals, then it would abend the game. I changed the memory timings, and then the game worked. So if you own this game and it runs, you have good memory. This is not the only way you should test memory, but it is a great extra test !