I’ve been using Memtest86 and its successor Memtest86+ for so long now, it’s hard to remember when I started; a decade ago to be sure. Memtest86+, as you might guess from the moniker, is a memory ...

Think you might have a bad RAM module in your PC? Freeware utility MemTest86+ will run a memory diagnostic to help you find out. Before I explain more, a true story… A few days ago my laptop froze up ...

Windows 11/10 has an inbuilt Memory Diagnostic Tool. Most of the time, Memory Diagnostic won’t detect bad RAM. If you want to check the stability of RAM, we suggest you use an open-source memory test ...

Memtest86+, an open source application for testing RAM stability and finding potential errors, has hit version 7 after its revival in 2022. The V7 release of Memtest86+ includes bug fixes, ...

I have a question about memtest86. I ran it for 5 hours while I slept last night, and when I woke up, I found that memtest had found errors on test 5 and test 8, on every pass. It was always the same ...

Hoping the Linux branch is the right spot, but happy to relocate this post if needed. I'm trying to run memtest86+ on some ram, but it consistently freezes after just a few minutes of testing. When it ...

Over the years there have been many a recommended piece for the computer technician's software toolkit. Very few have managed to stand the test of time as well as Memtest86+. As of October 24, 2022, ...

MemTest86 Plus which is a pretty popular memory testing utility (not to be confused with PassMark's original MemTest86), has finally received Secure Boot support with the latest version 6.10. This is ...

Memtest86+ v6 has been released, with support for the new Intel 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs and AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" CPUs... but more importantly: DDR5 memory support. The latest ...

Those who spent the 90s and early 2000s tinkering with computers will remember an encounter or two with Memtest86. They won't be good memories necessarily, because you only needed Memtest86 when ...