how to run memtest

[xx04201987xx]

I downloaded memtest from the website and I burned the ISO to cd.
Tried to boot from cd but it won't start the test.
how do I run the memtest???

 

[Nothinman]

You probably burned it incorrectly then because that's all you do.

 

[xx04201987xx]

mmmm
I just used Nero and burned the iso file to cd
is there a different way of burning the cd???

PS - this has nothing to do with thread but GO CHARGERS WOOTTTT

 

[Nothinman]

It depends on whether you burned the ISO file to the CD as a regular file or you burned to to disc as an image.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

This discussion intersects with one which occurred mere weeks ago.

I cannot confirm the certainty of what I say here, but the indications have left me with comfortable conclusions -- even if tentative -- about the latest version (3.34? 3.4?) of MEMTEST86.

If you find the MEMTEST86 web-site, it immediately presents some sales-hype to you about the convenience of charging $10 to your credit-card so that a working bootable CD of the program can be sent to you. For the money, this is not unreasonable, and not out of line with what MS and other software-publishers charge for copies of service-packs and other free downloads.

However, $10 is $10. A CD costs pennies. And a pile of $10 checks buys a lot of kiddie-porn and junk-food. Bad joke. Buys a lot of anything . . . .

More than one of us determined that neither the floppy-disk version nor the CD "ISO" version create workable copies of the program on the respective mediums.

If you look further at the MEMTEST86 web-site, you see that important aspects of MEMTEST86+ v1.70 were incorporated in MEMTEST86 v.3.4(?) -- addressing newer processors and chipsets.

Go to the web-site for MEMTEST86+, download v.1.70, and try making self-booting disks (or discs) from it instead.

Also, Microsoft provides a memory-testing program called WINDIAG Memory Diagnostic which will test up to 4GB of socketed memory.

 

[Nothinman]

I just downloaded the ISO from memtest86.com and it booted just fine in qemu.

 

[Mondoman]

Originally posted by: xx04201987xx
...
I just used Nero and burned the iso file to cd
is there a different way of burning the cd??...

I suspect you just dragged the file to be added to a new project in Nero, and ended up with a standard data CD with a .iso file on it.
What you need to do is to "Open" a new project in Nero, choosing the .iso file as the project to open, because that's effectively the "project file" for the memtest86+ bootable CD. Then go ahead and burn the project onto CD.

 

[xx04201987xx]

Thanks for the help
will try to do it with the way Mondoman suggested.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

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