I have a Core 2 era system that is failing somewhat mysteriously. First, during use the monitor blanked and the GPU fan started revving up and down at regular intervals. Removing power and restarting ...

Windows 11/10 has an inbuilt Memory Diagnostic Tool. Most of the time, Memory Diagnostic won’t detect bad RAM. If you want to check the stability of RAM, we suggest you use an open-source memory test ...

Think you might have a bad RAM module in your PC? Freeware utility MemTest86+ will run a memory diagnostic to help you find out. Before I explain more, a true story… A few days ago my laptop froze up ...

But I'd question the wisdom of running memtest86 in a VM. By definition, VMs don't have access to all the memory in order for memtest to test it, and there are no guarantees about which parts of ...