ram test...

i was wondering .... is there a way to test the ram in ur system before it boots in to win xp ...cause i have a friends comp who thinks a stick of ram is bad and doesnt want to pay 60 bucks for someone to tell him if its bad or good so if there is a program that i can get plz let me know....


and to let you know what is going on is it on shows 56 mb of ram when he has 2 sticks in it one being 56 and the other being 128 both r pc-100 so plz let me know if there is anything i can dl for him

 

Memtest86 is a good one. Also look in this section:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads26.html

Something sounds hosed, I've never heard of a 56MB RAM stick...

 

yea it says it right on the stick 56 mb pc-100

 

Maybe that's 256 and the 2 is missing?

 

no im sry its 64 my bad ..... and i redid the ram in the comp and now it shows up as 184 in dxdiag but when i go to pctuneup.com it shows it being 192 why is this.....

 

Different ways of representing a megabyte.

Sometimes it's calculated as 1,000,000 bytes

Other times it's calculated as 1,048,000 bytes

184 x 1,048,000 ~ 192,000,000

 

i've used memtest86 before, very effective and reliable...

 

Agreed, its rediculous (memory like most other things computer work in binary 1000000000 bytes in binary = 1,048,000 ) but im not complaining means i get a couple of extra bytest of memory

You could try booting the system with only one stick of ram, but if its only 64MB and running XP, then i REALLY dont suggest it. it sounds like old ram. PC100 is like dirt these days, you may as well just get a new one.

 

Haha, you think thats funny? i had 2k pro running on 24MB of pc133 ram (shared video), as a web server, and UT server. It supported 5 people, PLUS 5 bots as well! but talk about laggy. Obviously i dont make a habit of it but it was more of a dare, which basically consisted of :
"hey, my old computer sucks!"
"oh come on it cant be that bad"
"yeah it can!"
"i bet you could run a server on it"
"dont you need loads of ram and stuff to do that?"
"nah"
"a tenner says it does"

and so the next lan party (well, of sorts) i went to, i took that box with me and we tested it. it didnt crash, which was the main thing. I was gunna put 2k advanced server on it, but it needs 32MB minimum, lol.

Oh yeah and i was suggesting to get new ram, not a new computer . ive got 32MB sitting around here.. works fine, came from my old server. unfortunatley overseas shipping will cost more than the memory is worth.