RAM is usually one of the last components to fail. Your graphics card, hard drive, or motherboard are more likely to develop faults first. However, no matter how high-end your RAM, it's not immune to ...

Our monthly Troubleshooting Tools column, penned by MacFixIt Contributing Editor Dan Frakes, covers products that can help you maintain -- and, if necessary, fix -- your Mac. One of the most serious ...

Just got a BSOD while writing this post... Bought RAM two weeks ago, correct timings latency etc. to the integrated one on my laptop, updated BIOS, updated Windows, checked memtest86: 4 passes. Nice.

Think you might have a bad RAM module in your PC? Freeware utility MemTest86+ will run a memory diagnostic to help you find out. Before I explain more, a true story… A few days ago my laptop froze up ...

To be exact, Asus A8V motherboard, A64 3800+ processor. After playing around with testing a drive on both of the two SATA controllers, all of a sudden the game I just installed, which for one day ran ...

Memtest86+, an open source application for testing RAM stability and finding potential errors, has hit version 7 after its revival in 2022. The V7 release of Memtest86+ includes bug fixes, ...

Bad RAM can cause unpredictable behavior in Windows. If you suspect that your RAM is the culprit of your woes, we'll show you how to test it. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San ...

It's rare for RAM to fail, but if it does, it can lead to all kinds of problems. It might be that your high-end RAM's overclock is too high, or there's a BIOS issue, or maybe the RAM itself is going ...

Over the years there have been many a recommended piece for the computer technician's software toolkit. Very few have managed to stand the test of time as well as Memtest86+. As of October 24, 2022, ...

RAM, short for random access memory, is an essential PC component that directly impacts the performance and speed of a PC. It ...

Memtest86+ v6 has been released, with support for the new Intel 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs and AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" CPUs... but more importantly: DDR5 memory support. The latest ...

Those who spent the 90s and early 2000s tinkering with computers will remember an encounter or two with Memtest86. They won't be good memories necessarily, because you only needed Memtest86 when ...