Mem test

Guys, i'm looking to get another stick of ram. I'm going to run memtest after i install it as recommended. can you direct me to the memtest website? i googled it myself, but found it to be somewhat sketchy and not as professional looking as i thought it would be. I just want to make sure i'm not downloading something else.

also, how much ram should i test for? it seems like the manual is saying you should test total ram minus 64 that the win xp os uses, but what about other programs that are open? should i factor those in too?

thanks,
hcgt

 

Erm, I think this is it.

 

Yeah, that's it. Don't worry about settings or anything like that. Just run the program and it'll test all installed modules by paging addresses for errors. Good call testing new memory...it could save you trouble if, by chance, you get a dud.

 

thanks for the help guys, but...i'm kind of a noob with non .exe files... how am i supposed to run the program? i'm really confused. i don't know what a bootable iso is or a bootable binary or bootable exe for usb key in dos is... which one should i download and how do i use it?

 

A .iso is a file that you can burn to a CD (Nero knows how to do it), and then you can boot your computer off the CD to start it up. You can also download the ISO of most any modern Linux distribution (I use Kubuntu) and it includes memtest86+. You can't run the program from within Windows because it requires lower-level access to the memory than Windows will provide.

 

I found the best way is to download the ultimate boot cd, boot into that and run memtest straight off there.

 

Still an ISO you need to burn, jess_paws. And if you get it on a Linux LiveCD, you have another OS you can play with and learn about, rather than sticking with the tried and untrue Windows chain of tools