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Therefore, if a “first-opinion Windows-based” tester detects an issue, you know you’ve got a problem and don’t need to run a lengthy test from a bootable USB tool.įigure 2.

Their advantage is that they will not give false positives for bad RAM. Bootable USB testers, on the other hand, are the bread and butter of any computer tech’s toolbox, with the qualification that they usually take a while to run. Such programs can be quickly and conveniently used, but they don’t always detect deep RAM defects.

This program is called QuickMemoryTestOK (see Figure 2) and it is in the category of “Windows-based first-opinion” testers. Let’s begin with two programs not called “MemTest.” The first one is from one of our favorite freeware creators, Nenad Hrg. A desktop RAM ( DDR SDRAM) module Source: Micron Technology, Inc. Just remember: Any RAM that Windows itself is using (reserved memory) cannot be tested.įigure 1. Furthermore, it doesn’t run on its own - if you don’t think to run it, it certainly won’t detect bad RAM. Even trickier is that the built-in Windows memory diagnostic tool doesn’t always detect a bad RAM module. This is because these issues can manifest and disguise themselves as any software symptom. What might be news to you, though, is that these little circuit boards’ failures are the cause, in many cases, of hard-to-diagnose computer issues. Most of you are older geeks - but if you are new to all this nerdiness, here is a handy-dandy Wikipedia article to bring you up to speed. I’m not gonna womansplain RAM (see Figure 1). Well, the creators of RAM (random access memory) testing programs must live in Texas because they named most of them “MemTest”! It has too many highways, they are all still being built, and they are all named I-35. While navigating our way down to Austin to visit our daughter over the years, we have learned one thing about Texas. A bunch of free RAM testing tools - most called “MemTest”

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