Memory Test Program

[aviwil]

I have a new HP Pavillion dv6000 Laptop with Vista Home Premium . I have had some problems and posted this at
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...adid=2065793&forumid=1

Many people have suggested that this is a memory problem . I ran the MicroSoft Memory diagnostic from HP Recovery Manager for my Vista here . I believe it runs this from the BIOS with a reboot . It gave no errors . Does this mean memory is OK or is that test not sufficient . If not , does there exist a test which can check reliably for this ?

 

[Compton]

http://www.memtest86.com/

You can download the iso and burn it to a bootable cd.

 

[aviwil]

Compton thanks . Forgive my ignorance - but how do I create a bootable CD ? Also what is iso and what is the difference between it and the binary form ?

 

[Mark R]

My personal preference is to use Windows memory diagnostic (which is built into Vista). I've found it at least as reliable as memtest86 - and on a couple of flaky systems, has found faults more frequently than memtest.

I'm not sure I've ever come across a system where WMD passess, but memtest fails.

If you do want to use memtest86 - you'll need to burn it to a CD. Download the ISO file, and then burn the image using a program like Nero or ImgBurner. Personally, I'd use memtest86+, and not memtest86. The plus version is kept more up to date. http://www.memtest.org/

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Compton
http://www.memtest86.com/

You can download the iso and burn it to a bootable cd.

:thumbsup:

I also run Windows Memtest.
http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

 

[Compton]

Originally posted by: aviwil
Compton thanks . Forgive my ignorance - but how do I create a bootable CD ? Also what is iso and what is the difference between it and the binary form ?

The ISO image is a cd image file. You can burn this image file with almost any cd burning software. You can then boot your computer off the cd to run the program. Its up to you whether or not you want to burn a cd. I think its a great idea to have a cd like this around so you can easily test any computer at any time that has questionable memory.