How do I test using HCI memtest?

[ajaxsirius]

I'm using:

i5-3570K using stock (auto) values on Maximus V gene, 2x4GB G.Skill F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 9-9-9-24 set manually in the bios.

I wanted to test for stability before I overclock and was reading the sticky which says to:

Launch one instance per thread supported by CPU

I'm not quite sure I'm doing it properly since the fourth window of HCI memtest 4.0 I open sort of hangs after testing on the other three starts. It appears to be working but stays at 0% coverage. I tested this until the other three reached 200%. When I stop the test, the first three stop testing normally, but the last one hangs at "Ending Test..." I tried this twice using amount of RAM to test "2000" and "2048" in each window. I don't have this problem when I test with "10".

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with my RAM?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Open windows task manager and click the performance tab. You see where it says available memory? divide that number by 4 and put that in each window. For example if you have 5784MB available do 5784 / 4 = 1446 so put 1446 in the instances of HCI memtest.

 

[ajaxsirius]

Ah! Thanks!

 

[cmdrdredd]

The reason you were seeing 0% for a long time is it was thrashing your HDD for virtual memory and going nowhere.