Use Memtest86 - memtest 86 tutorial & Guide

Memtest86 set up:

If you go to the homepage of Memtest86 you see a "Download" link at the top of their page. If you follow this link it takes you to a page with 4 main links above. 90% of our users want the third link down [this is the link for the Windows version of the program] want to download on the page called:

"Download - Memtest86 v3." "2 ISO image (zip)"

I recommend saving the file to your desktop, so it's easy to find. After you have the file you need, if from the ZIP file to extract. If you should run Windows XP, you only on the ZIP file and drag it can double on your desktop. If you need an older version of Windows you otherwise WinZip download, following the link can be found:

http://www.WinZip.com

They do not have to purchase this program, as the trial, which will offer them the basic things to extract those you need this file. Once you have installed WinZip follow the instructions above and double click the file, and then drag the file that you see in the window on your desktop.

Is the file that you should have extracted from the above examples marked:

Memtest86-3.2.iso

[Note: Memtest86 allows create only a bootable Diagnostics CD.] [If you have a CD burner and not the Diagnostics CD, you can you to refer to the Guide on the "setting up MS memory diagnostic" two options to create a disc.]

Burn it on CD:

As you can see from looking at the file extension an ISO file is specified by the.ISO at the end of the file name. An ISO file, also known as an "image" file used to burn an exact copy of a file or program within certain CD burning software. Burn a program that works very much for these file types is "Nero Burning Rom". If you are this program you are good to go. Otherwise, you can download the program from the following location:

http://www.Nero.com /.

If you want to buy not this software, you can search the "free" trial version on their website, where you use the basic functionality that burn ISO file required software. Once you downloaded Nero and installed you open your file "memtest86 3.2.iso" in Nero, so that you can burn the diagnostic tool on CD.

You must open the file in Nero a way to make to ensure that burning the ISO file correctly. To this, a menu with options will bring the right mouse button on the file and it up. Want to select the option "Open with" from the menu. Once you have selected this is an "Open with" dialog is opened, all the software that currently on your system are installed

If you should have installed correctly you Nero able to scroll through the list and select Nero, and then click "OK". If you want to know one leave the option "use always this program, to open these files" check [or add a check box, this is not] and in the future your computer always ISO image files in Nero opened, so that you can burn it.

Once you have selected OK Nero will automatically open and take the "Image recording - write a premastered image" window. Let the options that are set to default values, and then click the button "continue" in the lower right corner.

At this point, should start "Burning process" Nero, show of how much time on the program for burning the CD is left you a percentage bar. Because there is such a small file, the writing process to take approximately 1 minute and then it will pop up with a window that says

"Burn at 40 x (6,000 KB/s) completed successfully"

Or something similar, you are mainly review to ensure that it says that it completed successfully. On the success window, click ok, and click then the button "continue" in the lower right corner once again your diagnosis disc stop.

Should at this point the program disk from the system automatically eject to can close Nero to where we are ready to use it. The CD set I would recommend again in the system and then control through Windows Explorer, make sure that you find you data on the CD as another method to check whether the disc has been successfully burned down.

Through Windows Explorer, click the CD drive. If the data has been burned correctly you will see a "BOOT" folder on the CD. If this is the diagnostic tool correctly burned.

If you have checked that your disc is good to go, you can leave it in the drive and reboot the system to start the memory diagnostics. I is only a brief overview of the program and the interface type as Memtest86 offers a complete guide to their program on the page, which you downloaded the file. If you want that more information than what is included here, see you please return to this page.

Run the diagnostic tool:

The basic diagnostic screen has five main sections of the relevant information. Three above which are marked, TEST PASS %and % # test. This will show the overall progress of the current test you basically which overall progress which is diagnostic test and the test number is currently performing.

On the middle left of the program interface is a "wall time" section, which tracked are how long the diagnostic test was run. This gives you just an idea of when you join not the testing process.

To search the main section is the lower half of the screen which is normally empty. As long as the memory test is ok without errors section of the screen should remain empty in this. If the diagnostic tool finds serious errors in the store, you see, it will show a memory dump of the address in this section. This is comparable with what on your screen is displayed, if a blue screen of death.

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.

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.