Memtest – An Awesome Tool To Test Your Computer’s Memory For Errors
A few days back one of my computers decided to act up. Obviously, almost instinctively I attributed the trouble to Windows. Fed up of the problems and not being able to resolve them I decided to go ahead and install Linux alongside. Half an hour later I was ready to bid a much wanted goodbye to all the troubles. However, about 10-15 minutes into the session, applications started quitting unexpectedly or failed to start altogether.
It was not a Windows problem after all. Now I was almost certain that it was a hardware issue. Having already scanned the hard disk, I didn’t know what to check next. Then on a random reboot I noticed the memtest86 entry on the GRUB menu. It has always been there whenever you install Ubuntu, yet I had completely forgotten about it. So I decided to give it a whirl and viola, one of the RAM sticks was found to be the miscreant!
Memtest as it turns out is an excellent solution for conducting a computer memory test.
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