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Memcheck / memtest

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DocG2828

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Hey all. I'm hunting ghosts in my computer and keep seeing references to memcheck and memtest. I'm assuming these aren't utilities that are standard on a pc. I've run all the PC Doctor stuff that came on my HP....but it comes up with nothing.

Can anyone point me to a good, freeware extensive memory checking/testing program. Something easy to use would be great. I saw one that came as a source code. Stuff like this is way over my head and I don't have the patience with this computer anymore to have to learn and figure it all out.

Any help would be great!
 
just google Memtest+ and burn the .iso file to a CD.
 
Perfect, an exe file.

I'll try the iso if I have too. The other one I came across wasn't either one. It was something I've never see before.

I'm guessing I've either got a bad mem stick or bad hd.....I think I've ruled out cooling and power problems....but who knows.

Thanks!
 
To see if you have a bad drive, google, download and burn the .iso file of Drive Fitness Test.
 
DocG2828 said:
I'm guessing I've either got a bad mem stick or bad hd.....I think I've ruled out cooling and power problems....but who knows.
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What kind of problem are you having, exactly? Give us the details and maybe we can help.

Oh, and include your system specs.
 
I'll sum it up, maybe you guys can help. I made a post in the PSU thread about some basics of it.

Here my system. HP m7650n. Duo Core 6300, 2 gig DDR2 4200.....320 gig hd, came with XP, upgraded to Vista. 7600gs e-vga card, Soundblaster Xtremegamer - nonfat.

Here's what its doing.....random lockups. Programs will stop responding, variety of programs. Sometimes it'll reset itself, or just go to a blank screen, sometimes to the dreaded blue screen. Upon trying to restart, sometimes it'll just goto the screen with the progress bar and just sit there with progress bars moving, sometimes to a black screen with cursor. It started about 2-3 months after the new vid and sound card. Computer is about 5 months old. I originally just reformatted back to factory settings with the factory boot disc, thinking maybe it was software related. Still did it. Then I figured I'd try upgrading to Vista, still does it. Usually I can load it off the upgrade disc and use it to repair windows...and windows will boot back up, but will just lock back up at an unpredictable time, sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 3 hours.

I've run PC doctor on everything.....no problems noted. Bought a PSU tester thinking maybe I killed it with the upgraded vid/sound cards. Tested fine. Bought a stronger case fan and have been monitoring temps with Core Temp....runs at 35-40c on both processors most of the time. Keep the case sidepanel off. Doesn't seem to be heat related. I've checked the connections and everything seems good there.

Tried to run checkdisk, but it locked up in the final test, stage 5. Within the past few days, it's starting to have probs recognizing the hd. Somtimes after a lockup and reboot, it'll fail to find the drive. Seems to be getting worse and worse now and locks up quicker and harder to get it to come back up correctly.

So I'm down to the memory and hard-drive. So I figured I'd test both thoroughly even though PC Doctor didn't show anything. I tried the exe memcheck....but I don't have a floppy drive. So I'll burn that and the hard drive file to cd's and do it that way if I can. It should still be under warranty so I'd love to have HP just replace whatever part is broken. If I can diagnose it and prove its a certain part, then it'd be much easier than dealing with their tech support.

Any ideas? Sorry for the long read, trying to be thorough.
 
Well I let memtest run for about 9 hours over night....no errors this morning but it was still running too. I'm guessing errors would have started popping up within those 9 hours tho.
 
Wouldn't guarentee the errors would pop-up so soon.

Anyhow, you've pretty much diagnosed your problem, the hard drive, you're getting crashes and strange behaviour from it so it's either that, or the controller on your motherboard for the hard drive.
 
Yeah,I was leaning towards the HD too.....just trying to get some proof so I can insist that HP just send me a new HD with an OS on it rather than making me send them the whole computer or something like that.
 
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