What's a good memory test software?

[benskia]

Hi.

Could somebody tell me what's a good bit of free software for testing memory.
Just need to check mine out. My PC works top notch all of the time & does stable for at least an hour with Prime95 (Not managed to get it to fail, but ended when got fed up).

But, I have this crashing problem with BF2. It's consistent and always at the same point when loading the game.

I wanted to check my memory out, to see if I have any faults in it.

Thanks.

[geoff2k]

Have you tried memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/)?

And one hour of prime95 isn't that much of a test, can you leave it running overnight?

[coop]

Memtest for windows..let it run for 1000%. Itdoes not take long.

[ic3m4n2005]

Yes memtest for windows is very fine and s&m is good, give it a try ;)

[amrgb]

Superpi 32M

Copy the paste of Superpi32M as much time as you want. Run simultaneously as many Superpi32M as your memory allows (for instance 1GB=3xSP32M).

IMO better than this only playing games, but since you already have problems with games...

:fact: Just one note. Just because you don't have errors in memtest for DAYS, that doesn't mean that your memories are good to go.

My Ballistix didnt' produce a single error in more than 24 hours and yet they couldn't even run SP1M except in some rare occasions. This only happened with one stick, so yes, it was a defective stick.

[benskia]

Thanks for the advice so far guys.
Also, so that I can try and nail the source of my problem once and for all, is there a way to get a blue screen to stay on the monitor before the system automatically reboots itself.
I just get the BSOD for a nanosecond before the crash. No time at all to read what's up though.

All other games are okay. It's just BF2 that I've never been able to get working.

Thx.

[Rolf]

GoldMemory ... Much harder than Prime95, S-PI, MemTest and so on... Give it a try!

[Spyrus]

Rolf i see great sticks.
Can you post the timings for 260?
Gold memory is another option but i recommend lobby loops of 3dmark2001se.

[benskia]

Yo.
Got me BF2 running now.
I managed to tell XP not to automatically boot on a blue screen.
Managed to read the error & it's something to do with my Terratec EWX soundcard driver.

Switched in the onboard sound instead & it works with that. No problemo.

[stealth17]

Superpi 32M

Copy the paste of Superpi32M as much time as you want. Run simultaneously as many Superpi32M as your memory allows (for instance 1GB=3xSP32M).

IMO better than this only playing games, but since you already have problems with games...

:fact: Just one note. Just because you don't have errors in memtest for DAYS, that doesn't mean that your memories are good to go.

My Ballistix didnt' produce a single error in more than 24 hours and yet they couldn't even run SP1M except in some rare occasions. This only happened with one stick, so yes, it was a defective stick.

why only 3 instances for 1024mb of ram?

Never heard of this, Ill have to give it a shot.

Anyone else use that GoldMemory? I might try that too