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DDR Tester?
I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing,
then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro |
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Jethro wrote:
I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro memtest86 seems to be highly recommended in these groups. http://www.memtest86.com/ |
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"Pen" wrote in message . .. Jethro wrote: I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro memtest86 seems to be highly recommended in these groups. http://www.memtest86.com/ yep that's a good one...the "standard". believe it or not Microsoft has something good too http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:04:30 -0500, "philo" wrote:
"Pen" wrote in message ... Jethro wrote: I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro memtest86 seems to be highly recommended in these groups. http://www.memtest86.com/ yep that's a good one...the "standard". believe it or not Microsoft has something good too http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Thanks you two. I am running memtest86 right now - so far no errors. Seems to take a long time - like hours. MS's looks good too. I will download/save/maybe run that one too. Jethro |
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"Jethro" wrote in message ... I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro You might consider turning off automatic restarts (assuming this is XP), then make a note of the error you get on the blue screen. This can sometimes help pinpoint the cause. |
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:56:55 +0100, "Dave"
wrote: "Jethro" wrote in message .. . I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro You might consider turning off automatic restarts (assuming this is XP), then make a note of the error you get on the blue screen. This can sometimes help pinpoint the cause. Hey that's a thought! Thanks Jethro |
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:35:53 GMT, Jethro wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:56:55 +0100, "Dave" wrote: "Jethro" wrote in message . .. I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro You might consider turning off automatic restarts (assuming this is XP), then make a note of the error you get on the blue screen. This can sometimes help pinpoint the cause. Hey that's a thought! Thanks Jethro Well - I have tried both DDR testers, and neither showed any errors. I have two machines with identical DDRs, and the second machine has never crashed (as yet anyway). So I switched DDRs to see if machine two will now crash. I also have disabled auto restart in both BIOS's. We shall see I guess. Thanks Jethro |
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On Mar 17, 4:35 am, Jethro wrote:
I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro Keep in mind that ANY piece of faining hardware can cause a BSOD. Video card failures are pretty common, and very often cause crashes. There are also a large number of driver-related causes, and a few plain software causes. |
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yep that's a good one...the "standard". believe it or not Microsoft has something good too http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Thanks you two. I am running memtest86 right now - so far no errors. Seems to take a long time - like hours. MS's looks good too. I will download/save/maybe run that one too. Jethro If it finds any errors at all...the RAM can generally be considered as bad. RAM test will run indefinitely...but if it does not find any errors after a few hours... the RAM is probably OK... If the RAM tests ok.it might still be slightly marginal..the machine may run OK is slightly underclocked -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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On 17 Mar 2007 09:32:47 -0700, "
wrote: On Mar 17, 4:35 am, Jethro wrote: I suspect I am having memory failures. My machine has been crashing, then restarting, on its own. I have replaced the MOBO and CPU and PSU. I have changed HDDs. The machine still crashes. Now I am thinking my DDRs are failing. I have two, one 512 and one 128. I want to run a diagnostic against the DDRs, but I can't find a free one via Google. Can anyone point me to a free diagnostic that I can download and run? That is any good that is. Thanks Jethro Keep in mind that ANY piece of faining hardware can cause a BSOD. Video card failures are pretty common, and very often cause crashes. There are also a large number of driver-related causes, and a few plain software causes. As I said, I have switched DDRs - so far so good - after an hour. I hadn't thought of the video card. That's another item that I can switch if and when. Both machines have similar video cards (AGP). Thanks again for your helps Jethro |
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