Re: Tutorial creating & using Hirens Boot CD & MemTest86 diagnostic stress testing tools for USB boot to Windows 10 PE & WinXPmini on BIOS & UEFI

Arlen Holder <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware
Organization Mixmin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
UPDATE:
o <https://i.postimg.cc/L8w5Cxmr/memtest01.jpg>

o *How to Test RAM: Making Sure Bad Memory Isn't Crashing Your PC*
  <https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/how-to-test-ram>
  "One option preferred by us at Tom's Hardware is HCI Design's MemTest.
   The good thing about this is you don't have to any pre-booting 
   and there are no directions. You just run it."

o Downloading MemTest (free)
  <https://hcidesign.com/memtest/download.html> 
  <https://hcidesign.com/memtest/MemTest.zip>  
  [X:\software\hardware\memory\hcimemtest\MemTest.zip]
  Name: MemTest.zip
  Size: 17671 bytes (17 KiB)
  SHA256: 08960F448F4514E7C2D388420560D7D03F5F0A54EC8F9663D66C887B8E4679E6

o Unzip & move MemTest c:\app\hardware\ram\hcimemtest\
  c:\app\hardware\ram\hcimemtest\memtest.exe
  Name: memtest.exe
  Size: 40960 bytes (40 KiB)
  SHA256: 5E2D1B0E56095D4D219F3A606E46CE5DE3220FDF3CF55A6E405D3946F25792A6

o Create a link & SendTo populate your Taskbar accordion cascade menu tree:
  c:\menu\hardware\ram\memtest.lnk
  TARGET: C:\app\hardware\ram\hcimemtest\memtest.exe
  STARTIN: C:\app\hardware\ram\hcimemtest

o Run the program as many times as needed to simultaneously test RAM:
  Taskbar > menu > hardware > ram > memtest.lnk
  Enter megabytes of RAM to test === All unused RAM
  [Start Testing]

  Could not allocate 4095 MB
  Windows limits the amount of contiguous RAM MemTest can allocate
  to between 2 and 3.5GB. To test all your RAM, run more than one copy
  of MemTest simultaneously and set each copy to test a portion of 
  available RAM. Running more than one copy of MemTest does not 
  lower the quality of the test (and can even improve it if you have
  multiple cores or CPUs).

  Enter megabytes of RAM to test === 2
  [Start Testing]
  (instance 1)

o Run Taskbar > menu > hardware > ram > memtest.lnk
  Enter megabytes of RAM to test === 2
  [Start Testing]
  (instance 2)

Note that every installation goes 'where it belongs' (which you define):
o <https://i.postimg.cc/L8w5Cxmr/memtest01.jpg>
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