Bad RAM?

[JLuchinski]

I'm not sure how to test my RAM. But recently my computer has been restarting for no reason in the middle of browsing the internet to playing games. No BSOD, just restarts without warning. Maybe I'll check the event log. Anyways, everything else seems to be OK. What do you think?

 

[Ryeong]

I'm not sure how to test my RAM. But recently my computer has been restarting for no reason in the middle of browsing the internet to playing games. No BSOD, just restarts without warning. Maybe I'll check the event log. Anyways, everything else seems to be OK. What do you think?

run memtest

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

If you have more than 2GB RAM, then run several memtest's at once. Leave it running for 20 mins.. If your pc crash, then you'll know for sure.

 

[Aastii]

run memtest

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

If you have more than 2GB RAM, then run several memtest's at once. Leave it running for 20 mins.. If your pc crash, then you'll know for sure.

download and run memtest, but don't do it how he said.

Leave it running overnight. If a single error comes up in that time then you know that your memory is bad. It can often happen that the error only shows every few passes, so it can take an hour or 2 to actually flag up the error

 

[Ryeong]

download and run memtest, but don't do it how he said.

Leave it running overnight. If a single error comes up in that time then you know that your memory is bad. It can often happen that the error only shows every few passes, so it can take an hour or 2 to actually flag up the error

The memtest only run for 20-60 minutes at max before it shuts down. Varies depending on the amount of installed RAM.

 

[Aastii]

Sorry, but the memtest only run for 20-60 minutes at max before it shuts down. Varies depending on the amount of installed RAM.

sorry, but you are wrong. It does vary depending on RAM. If you have a system with 64kb memory, sure, 20 minutes would be fine, for any average amount (1GB+) 8+ hours is needed because 20-60 minutes does not give enough passes.

memtest won't shut down until you shut it down, so where you got that from, I don't know

 

[Ryeong]

sorry, but you are wrong. It does vary depending on RAM. If you have a system with 64kb memory, sure, 20 minutes would be fine, for any average amount (1GB+) 8+ hours is needed because 20-60 minutes does not give enough passes.

memtest won't shut down until you shut it down, so where you got that from, I don't know

You sure? i haven't used it for a long time.. But if i recall it correctly, there should be a %-bar somewhere that goes from 1-100% and at 100% it stops. or?

 

[Aastii]

You sure? i haven't used it for a long time.. But if i recall it correctly, there should be a %-bar somewhere that goes from 1-100% and at 100% it stops. or?

that is the % of that single pass. it will keep going until you stop it, it can get to ∞%, it will just keep going and going until you tell it to stop or the system fails (not the memory fail, if the memory fails it says it has found an error) or loses power.

For example, if it has done 20 passes it will be at 2000%

 

[Ryeong]

that is the % of that single pass. it will keep going until you stop it, it can get to ∞%, it will just keep going and going until you tell it to stop or the system fails (not the memory fail, if the memory fails it says it has found an error) or loses power.

For example, if it has done 20 passes it will be at 2000%

ah, ok. Then i recommend that you do what Aastii says..

 

[JLuchinski]

OK, I'll do it tonight, hopefully it is bad, I've been looking for an excuse to buy more RAM.