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How to test RAM?

  • 26-11-2007 7:05pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭


    I installed more RAM but PC does not seem very much faster if at all. Is there any way I can test the memory witout creating floppy disk/batch file? Do not know how and don't want to mess with something don't understand

    Thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    mentest will do it I thiink !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    He means memtest, dl it, burn it 2 a cd & set your bios 2 boot from cd.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 633 ✭✭✭IncredibleHulk


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    He means memtest, dl it, burn it 2 a cd & set your bios 2 boot from cd.

    Is there no way that does not involve booting from CD/changing bios, don't want to go there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    No proper way to test from within windows, only true way of testing is without an os. Does your pc have floppy, these are sometimes automatically set to 1st boot device & you could dl the floppy utility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Memtest won't tell you if your PC's any faster - its purpose is for testing that your RAM works properly. If you're running Windows XP and got more than 3GB it won't recognise it, btw


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭SeanW


    How much benefit you get from the extra ram will depend on how much you had before and how much you added. It also depends on anything else that might be slowing your machine though, like an old hard drive, or bad software.

    Memtest won't tell you how fast your computer is or should be.

    It will only tell you if your RAM is faulty.

    And if it were, you'd know you had problems, you might not be able to immediately pin them on bad RAM but it would be much more serious than "my PC isn't any faster."

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