How long the test should be taking?
3 hours, 5 hours or 8 hours?
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> On 21-Oct-2007, "Computer & Sound System Tech" <>
> wrote:
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> > i bought ram last month i believe, and for some reason i'm getting the
> > blue
> > screen of death sometimes not always. and today was even worse the
> > computer
> > would always give me the blue screen of death, and i waited few hours
and
> > turned it on and now it's fine. but i'm tired of the blue screen
> > especially the ram is fine, i will try the ram tester,
>
> If you have a floppy drive then run a DOS based memory tester,
> Doc Memory Ram Diagnostic V2.2 comes to mind, from
> http://www.simtester.com/
> I've never trusted MS$ diagnostics to diagnose anything.
> IDocMemory does a range of different walk tests to pick up obscure
> faults like crosstalk between address lines, and can be
> set to run a large number of cycles as a soak test.
> I had boot blue screens until I killed most processes
> prior to shutdown with Process Killer.
> If shutdown leaves a corrupted file you may get
> continuous BSOD's until you run Check Disk in Fix
> Errors mode.
> Once it finds and repairs crosslinked files, sorts
> out orphened fragments, and the file tables, it'll
> come good for a sort while.
> Could be you have a hardware device like a USB
> wireless stick, the drivers for which misbehave
> and screw things up.