brillo

Memtest86 works great to ID a bad memory module. But the only recourse with a Windows system is to throw away the module and replace it, which is spendy (and more likely with more RAM/stick) and very wasteful (if only a few addresses are defective, as is common). With Linux, Rick van Rein and Michal Schmidt built a sister program for Memtest86 to support RAMs with defective addresses, the Linux kernel support for broken RAM modules (version 2.6.18 as of today). Re: http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

Does anyone know if work is being done or has been done to build a BadRAM Patch for Windows similar to the BadRAM Patch for Linux?

Also, van Rein built an extension for Memtest86 to print badram=... to ID the specific bad RAM addresses, lines that can be entered on the next boot of a Linux system with the BadRAM Patch, so it knows the bad RAM addresses. Is anyone working on a similar extension for Windows?

Rob