At 12:40 AM 1/16/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
It's been running now for 8 hours, 26 minutes, 5 passes, no errors.
Is there really any point in letting this run more? It's testing 8
GB of ram, those these runs take forever. I can't image it would
suddenly uncover some bad ram.
I never would have run this in the first place, but I did have one
stick that was bad. Prime96 and OCCT would uncover the bad ram
immediately...it just took a bit of testing to isolate which stick
was bad. Once I found it and get a replacement stick, they then
gave no further errors. Now, after 8.5+ hours of memtest, I think
this is ram should be blessed as ok.
Right?
I used to figure two complete passes was "safe" but I've since tested
to 10 complete passes and found errors out on pass 7 and 9, so I'm
not completely sold on MemTest. But I'd base how long on number of
passes rather than time. The more you can live with, the more
accurate. I'd say 5 would be a bare minimum.
T
