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Dodgy Memory ??

uch · 2005-06-22 09:35:41

Think I have dodgy memory, but not 100% convinced, need to test it from the bios screen. Anybody know of any good pieces of software that run Diagnostics from the bios or from DOS ?? Recon if I test the memory from dos I'll get a better idea if it's a hardware or software prob. I've already re-installed os, changed HDD and…

22-06-2005 9:35am

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Think I have dodgy memory, but not 100% convinced, need to test it from the bios screen. Anybody know of any good pieces of software that run Diagnostics from the bios or from DOS ??
Recon if I test the memory from dos I'll get a better idea if it's a hardware or software prob. I've already re-installed os, changed HDD and Flashed BIOS, so any other ideas would be very welcome.

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#2 22-06-2005 9:41am

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Try Memtest86

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#3 22-06-2005 9:52am

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yes memtest

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#4 22-06-2005 10:35am

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i ran that, got 72 errors ranging from 490MB to 512mb, and it works fine

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#5 22-06-2005 11:05am

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Perhaps you don't enter them blocks?

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#6 22-06-2005 11:41am

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Webmonkey wrote:

Perhaps you don't enter them blocks?

Well, i tried running very high ram programs, like hl2 and farcry, while itunes was open... all works fine.

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