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Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
ASUS has a program that can be downloaded called " PC Diagnostics " . This program has a stress test section that ( supposedly ) stress tests the CPU , Ram , and GPU card. If you have this program , how long would I need to run it on the ram to get a good stress test of the Ram done ? I know that memtest is better , but I have a 64 Bit OS and memtest is for a 32 bit OS . |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
ASUS has a program that can be downloaded called " PC Diagnostics " . Hi Floyd I have not used it but knowing your problems I would run it for at least 12hrs and do it during the day so it will test it during the hottest part of the day |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
ASUS has a program that can be downloaded called " PC Diagnostics " . ok 12 hours is 720 min... I'll set it up to do that and use it some while it is running , that should increase the stress somewhat , or is that ok to do ? |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
yep that's ok the more you can do the better the test ,however the test itself mite not let you do anything as it will probly use all the resources but give it a go and see what happens |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
yep that's ok the more you can do the better the test ,however the test itself mite not let you do anything as it will probly use all the resources but give it a go and see what happens The test is running now , doesn't seem to be slowing anything down , or , maybe I'm just using Video memory ( 1 gig Ram on GPU ) GTX 460 SE . |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
try and watch a movie while it going that should max it out |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
Memory Stress Test -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memory Stress Test items: Tests the stability of the memory modules. Uses a variety of parameters and approaches to test the stability of the memory modules. To access more memory for assessing the current physical memory load capacity, enable the Lock Pages in the memory settings, if the current account policy allows it. Refer to the operating system's Help file for more details on enabling the Lock Pages. ============================================= not sure what this means... lol |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
umm got me on that one your going to have to use the help pages in the operating system sorry |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
ok got it .... To enable the lock pages in memory option -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. On the Start menu, click Run. In the Open box, type gpedit.msc. The Group Policy dialog box opens. 2. On the Group Policy console, expand Computer Configuration, and then expand Windows Settings. 3. Expand Security Settings, and then expand Local Policies. 4. Select the User Rights Assignment folder. The policies will be displayed in the details pane. 5. In the pane, double-click Lock pages in memory. 6. In the Local Security Policy Setting dialog box, click Add. 7. In the Select Users or Groups dialog box, add an account with privileges to run sqlservr.exe. this is for win 7 64 bit |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
umm got me on that one your going to have to use the help pages in the operating system sorry I'm just going to let this run for the 12 hours and see what happens with it... Should be done about 7:30 pm tonight. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
umm group polices .....big head ace ..... .....be careful you don't lock your self out of your own system....... |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
it's 11.13pm so I mite still be in bed but i'll come back a see how it goes when I get up ,depends on what time I crash tonight |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
umm group polices .....big head ace ..... .....be careful you don't lock your self out of your own system....... YEA , that would be my luck , Just going to let this program run and see what happens. |
Lint trap Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 871 Credit: 28,092,319 RAC: 0 |
Memtest86 runs independent of your installed OS. You only need your OS to create a bootable device (floppy, cd, etc) for the memory test program. After rebooting to run the test program your OS is out of the picture. Lt |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
Is this the one you are talking about ? memtest86+-4.00.iso OR memtest86+-4.20.iso Just burn this to a CD and boot from it ? |
Lint trap Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 871 Credit: 28,092,319 RAC: 0 |
I get memtest86 from here: http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm You want a Windows package if you are using Windows to create the bootable device of your choice. Lt |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22158 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
In theory you should be able to burn the .iso version onto a CD and it will boot and run memtest86 correctly. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
I get memtest86 from here: I have win 7 pro 64 Bit... Windows pkg won't run on the 64 bit OS... I tried this one "mt400.exe" It wouldn't work. OR... maybe I just don't know what I am doing. EDIT: Ok I got that one made an Image cd ( boot cd ) and will reboot from cd and run it. How long should this run ? |
Mike Davis Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 240 Credit: 5,402,361 RAC: 0 |
It does have quite extensive instructions on that website for creating the memtest windows bootdisk. Edit- NM I see you seem to have found it. Windows Boot-disk Creation Before you can use Mestest86 on a Windows system it must first be installed on a CD-ROM, USB flash drive or floppy disk. To create a CD-ROM a system with the capability of creating a CD-Image from an ISO file is required. Create a boot-able CD-ROM: Download the Windows MemTest86 ISO image. Right click on the downloaded file and select the "Extract to Here†option. This places the CD-ROM ISO image into the current folder. Use the CD burning software available on your system to create a CD-ROM using the extracted ISO image. Be sure that you create a CD image from the ISO file rather than placing a copy of the ISO file onto a data CD. Look for “Burn Image from File†or similar option under the File menu of your CD burning software. Create a boot-able USB Flash drive: Download the Windows MemTest86 USB image. Right click on the downloaded file and select the "Extract to Here†option. This places the USB image and imaging tool into the current folder. Run the included imageUSB tool, it should already have the image file selected and you just need to choose which connected USB drive to turn into a bootable drive. Note that this will erase all data on the drive. Create a boot-able floppy: Download the Windows MemTest86 floppy disk image. Right click on the downloaded file and select the "Extract to Here†option. This places the floppy disk image into the current folder. Creating a boot-able floppy disk requires use of a third party program to write the floppy disk image to a disk. A number of programs are available to write the disk image. Rawwrite is a recommended free program available at: http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite. A more robust solution is WinImage, available at http://www.winimage.com/download.htm. |
Floyd Send message Joined: 19 May 11 Posts: 524 Credit: 1,870,625 RAC: 0 |
Ok... It is running , do I need to do it for so long , or how do I need to set it up for the intermittent problems check ? |
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