How do you use memtest86? Some questions.

[VIAN]

I dled memtest86 and burnt it onto a cd. But the website doesn't explain much nor does the readme, and the menu sucks.

I would like to have it running for 8 hours, my understanding is that it runs continuously automatically, right?

I would like to just test one test, to see how fast the memory is. How do I do that?

Is there any one test that's better than the other, cause there seems to be 12 of them?

THX in advance.

 

[THUGSROOK]

press c-1-2-2-3-0-space bar and let it run for at least 8 hours.

 

[VIAN]

I ran exactly that and no errors showed up, but I'm getting memory errors when I play HL2, what gives?

Is it not a very good stress test or what?

 

[Duvie]

It is a great stress test...It is simplified but it is effective. Are you ocing the vid card memory?? Possible glitch in the HL2 software or compatability isse??

 

[Xed]

try looping test 5. 1-4 are generally cpu/psu related errors

 

[stevty2889]

If you have memory problems memtest will find them. Another good system stresser to run is prime95 torture test. If you have any hardware issues, or instability, prime95 will error.

 

[FlameDeer]

Try memtest86+ 1.40 and run with Prime95. If all fine but still error in HL2, then mostly due to software (windows) error or incompatibility. Maybe can test again with no overclocking at all.

 

[flawlssdistortn]

are you talking BSOD memory errors? Or crashes to desktop? What kind of error messages are you getting?