Ram Diagnostics
Ash Small, Fri Nov 29 2013, 03:20PMI've just run 'MemTest86+' on a PC that's 'not behaving' and obtained the following result.
I have no documentation or experience using this software. Does this mean that one of the two 256Mb (I think) RAM sticks need replacing?
The machine's owner was thinking of upgrading the RAM anyway.
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Shrad, Fri Nov 29 2013, 05:44PM
seems the ram is bad
Shrad, Fri Nov 29 2013, 05:44PM
seems the ram is bad
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Ash Small, Fri Nov 29 2013, 05:57PM
I've put in a single 512 stick I had laying around.
I'm just testing that. It seems ok so far, and it's running 50% faster already, according to 'MemTest86+'.
Ash Small, Fri Nov 29 2013, 05:57PM
I've put in a single 512 stick I had laying around.
I'm just testing that. It seems ok so far, and it's running 50% faster already, according to 'MemTest86+'.
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Conundrum, Sat Nov 30 2013, 09:57AM
Heh.
I had a memory failure on a less than 2 month old new laptop, took ages to figure out.
Turns out that portions of the RAM only failed when above a certain temperature, ran it for days and no fail yet 5 minutes when hot (used another app to thrash the CPU/etc) and fail.
I have since seen the same fault on a number of HP's that will not run Windows setup at all yet run DSL, Puppy and a few other distros perfectly.
Conundrum, Sat Nov 30 2013, 09:57AM
Heh.
I had a memory failure on a less than 2 month old new laptop, took ages to figure out.
Turns out that portions of the RAM only failed when above a certain temperature, ran it for days and no fail yet 5 minutes when hot (used another app to thrash the CPU/etc) and fail.
I have since seen the same fault on a number of HP's that will not run Windows setup at all yet run DSL, Puppy and a few other distros perfectly.
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Ash Small, Sat Nov 30 2013, 01:37PM
This one's been sorted out now. The owner was convinced it was the hard drive, which I'd already replaced.
We've now located the original hard drive and leads and re-installed it and he now had all his data back
Ash Small, Sat Nov 30 2013, 01:37PM
This one's been sorted out now. The owner was convinced it was the hard drive, which I'd already replaced.
We've now located the original hard drive and leads and re-installed it and he now had all his data back
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Conundrum, Tue Dec 17 2013, 09:14AM
Experiencing random fail on my x520, possibly RAM related.
Get this, not only will W7 RAM test not even run (throws a file not found error) but neither will DSL.
I tried it and it refused to run at all, which makes me convinced that the RAM is subtly bad in some way.
Conundrum, Tue Dec 17 2013, 09:14AM
Experiencing random fail on my x520, possibly RAM related.
Get this, not only will W7 RAM test not even run (throws a file not found error) but neither will DSL.
I tried it and it refused to run at all, which makes me convinced that the RAM is subtly bad in some way.
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Ash Small, Tue Dec 17 2013, 12:09PM
There's a program called 'MemTest86+' on that AVG rescue disk you sent me, Andre. That did the trick for me.
Ash Small, Tue Dec 17 2013, 12:09PM
Conundrum wrote ...
Experiencing random fail on my x520, possibly RAM related.
Get this, not only will W7 RAM test not even run (throws a file not found error) but neither will DSL.
I tried it and it refused to run at all, which makes me convinced that the RAM is subtly bad in some way.
Experiencing random fail on my x520, possibly RAM related.
Get this, not only will W7 RAM test not even run (throws a file not found error) but neither will DSL.
I tried it and it refused to run at all, which makes me convinced that the RAM is subtly bad in some way.
There's a program called 'MemTest86+' on that AVG rescue disk you sent me, Andre. That did the trick for me.
Re: Ram Diagnostics
Conundrum, Tue Dec 17 2013, 06:50PM
Thanks,
I will try the AVG disk next in case this shows up some problem that is causing both sets of symptoms.
Conundrum, Tue Dec 17 2013, 06:50PM
Thanks,
I will try the AVG disk next in case this shows up some problem that is causing both sets of symptoms.
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