As with MS memory diagnostic guide & tutorial

How can I setup MS memory diagnostic?

First discusses setting up the "MS memory diagnostic disc". The first thing you need to do is a copy of the program from Microsoft Download.  In Internet Explorer to go to the "Tools" menu and select "Windows Update". You use not Internet Explorer, you can also search http://www.Google.com for "Windows Update" and it should be returned to the first link in the search.

[You may have problems with the Windows Update Web site if you use not Internet Explorer.] [Microsoft has made changes which sometimes can conflict with other browsers so if you run normally IE not, you might need to get to this part of the website.]

Once you are on the Windows Update Web site you should see a search box in the upper right corner of the screen. Type in "Memory Diagnostic" and click on search. The first link in your search results should be "Microsoft Online Crash Analysis". Click on this link and you get to the page that you can download the software from. At the top of the page you will see three blue links, and the middle one should "Download Windows Memory Diagnostic". Click on this link and save the file "mtinst.exe" to your desktop.

Double-click on the new "mtinst.exe", that should be on your desktop as soon as the file download has completed. It brings up the the license agreement do you "accept", in order to use the software. As soon as this will have done it a small program window open, the you two options.

Create STARTUP disk [So you create a bootable floppy disk]

Save CD IMAGE to disk [So you create a bootable CD]

As soon as one completed and created one of the previous sections bootable floppy have disk or bootable CD you should with the diagnosis to begin. Follow the above guides that relate to the specific disc, for by this kind of media start made.

In a perfect world, you should only in a position to put your CD or floppy disk in the system, and it should automatically start the diagnostic tool.

Perform a diagnosis:

Once the diagnostic tool has started you will notice 3 main sections to the program. The first section is a top window with status indicators. It is on display in this section a number it says 1 / 6 pass and changes accordingly, what is the diagnosis in the programme cycle. Once it has passed the program 6 / 6 has completed a full cycle of testing and this is a completed tested. You can for a more thorough examination of longer, but 1-cycle is usually enough to find serious errors in memory.

The next section is in the middle with a PASS box on the left. This shows what diagnosis currently performing it you in the store. This is color coded which helps. In fact, text should only Green and Blue . This means your memory test is good, and it has found no problems. If you find you at every stage here Red appear, that it means that the program has found a problem with your memory. In this case write a note was down test of what it do if this happened. This way you can tech departments give more information when applying for a return authorization on your memory.

The last section is a results pane at the bottom of the program. If the program completed a full cycle [or more if you are very thorough] should see a message that says "found no errors". If you Red text in the program come during the diagnosis, noticed as I mentioned, you will see what looks like a dump at the bottom of the screen. This is similar to the error message that is displayed as a blue screen of death in Windows.

After the diagnosis is complete, eject your disc, and boot back into Windows. Or if you are testing multiple memory sticks have the disc in the system and power-down. Once you have shut down disconnect the AC cord and remove the first memory sticks that you tested and add the next drive in the system that you want to test to.

[You can test many memory sticks at once if you want to, but this is only useful in determining that your memory is working fine.] [If you test many sticks and the Diagnostics detects problems, you must remove all of your memory and test sticks to determine one after the other one / s which is the problem is affected.]

You most now everything, what you have to set up and test your memory with diagnostic programs need to know. This guide should help you to the source of intermittent problems related to your memory.