Memtest86 7.5 MemTest86 is a free, thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers.

Memtest86 7.5

MemTest86 is a free, thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers.

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Last updated:
February 6, 2018
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Windows
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There are many good approaches for testing memory. However, many tests simply throw some patterns at memory without much thought or knowledge of memory architecture or how errors can best be detected. This works fine for hard memory failures but does little to find intermittent errors. BIOS based memory tests are useless for finding intermittent memory errors.
RAM chips consist of a large array of tightly packed memory cells, one for each bit of data. The vast majority of the intermittent failures are a result of interaction between these memory cells. Often writing a memory cell can cause one of the adjacent cells to be written with the same data. An effective memory test attempts to test for this condition. Therefore, an ideal strategy for testing memory would be the following:

Write a cell with a zero.
Write all of the adjacent cells with a one, one or more times.
Check that the first cell still has a zero.

It should be obvious that this strategy requires an exact knowledge of how the memory cells are laid out on the chip. In addition there are a never ending number of possible chip layouts for different chip types and manufacturers making this strategy impractical. However, there are testing algorithms that can approximate this ideal and MemTest86 does just this.
Whats New:

Language support for Italian
Added ECC detection support for Broadwell-H chipsets
Added ECC injection support for Broadwell-H chipsets
Added ECC detection support for AMD Merlin Falcon
Added fix for certain Intel Xeon E5 platforms that are unable to access the ECC and SMBus registers
TSOD polling is now temporarily disabled on Intel E5 v3 platforms when reading SPD bytes. Previously, this caused invalid bytes to appear in the SPD data.
Added sanity check for invalid characters in the SPD part number string
Updated JEDEC ID manufacture names
Fixed crash when the number of processors is greater than the max supported (120)
Added SMBIOS system, baseboard and BIOS info to MemTest86 reports
Reduced the number of decimal points when displaying memory/cache speeds
Added workaround for certain UEFI firmware when setting console resolution
Report file name is now prepended with the baseboard serial number when running MemTest86 Site Edition in order to distinguish from reports from other machines
Added "Mac-F42C88C8" to a blacklist of known unsupported baseboard/EFI firmwares. When a blacklisted baseboard/EFI firmware is detected, a warning message is displayed.
Updated to latest UDK + compiler tools
Various system info related updates/fixes (CPU)

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