Memtest86 3.5

Rated 50/50 by bobscat at Feb 17, 2008

"Memtest 86 does a good job" Works exactly as advertised. Nothing

Rated 40/50 by dickberg1234 at Mar 19, 2008

"Very nice memory test" Running on Dell Inspiron 530, E2160. Put in Corsair 4gb 2x2gb. added a usb floppy drive, created a 3.5 diskette. restarted the machine and it booted the floppy and started the test. Went thru many passes in 18 hours I let it run. Switched to expanded test during the run. Program ran without any problems. none

Rated 50/50 by mfarmilo at Jun 30, 2008

As others have already said, memtes86 is one of the best known and longest running memory testers out there. Excellent program that is HIGHLY recommended by anyone who has the faintest idea what they're talking about.

Rated 10/50 by mrfundeluxe at Jan 11, 2009

"Doesn't work for 64-bit users" dunno, couldn't use it Doesn't work for 64-bit users!

Rated 40/50 by Banquo at Feb 2, 2009

Works great, though I prefer Memtest86+ as it seems to be updated more often.

Rated 40/50 by mjm01010101 at Feb 2, 2009

I've pretty much abandoned this for use of memtest86+, but never hurts to have both. memetest86+ is updated more frequently, and obviously copied now by memtest.

Rated 10/50 by MrTweeky at Nov 22, 2009

"Did not work on XP Pro (to install onto diskette)" None - did not even work. The directions were not correct (and only mention Linux OS) and referenced files that were not included. I have no idea how this passed the editors at cnet.

Rated 30/50 by AndyRocker at Dec 6, 2009

"No Frills DOS Software" Does what it supposed to do More Info needed as to what kind of errors it can throw out

Rated 50/50 by faheyd at Dec 26, 2009

"Get the latest release, just go to memtest.org" Works EVERYTIME on any system I've used in 10 years. You must be smarter then the box in front of you.Of course you can't burn a ISO on a Cd if the system you are burning on, HAS BAD MEMORY. You must burn the disc on another 'clean' system. Always check the memtest.org site for the latest release so that your 'new' motherboard chipset is properly supported.

Rated 30/50 by tim321 at Jan 13, 2010

"Good program" Started and ran real well after getting the program on the floppy. A more obvious how-to section would help.

Rated 50/50 by bssheriff at Feb 13, 2010

"Great tool" Works as advertised. Catches errors that some other tools miss. Runs great as a boot CD. It does not take a rocket scientist to convert this download to a boot CD. Use something like CDBurnerXP to write the included .bin file to a bootable CD. None that I can see.. Great tool. No credible technician would want to leave home without it.

Rated 40/50 by cmdrpookie at Mar 24, 2010

"Works as advertised" Seems to reliably detect even tricky-to-detect RAM problems that might be causing random computer flakiness. Must be run from a CD or floppy. Not sure how to avoid this, though, since the OS can't be loaded before doing a complete RAM test. Possible to run it from a USB key maybe? It works.

Rated 40/50 by pshearer82 at Apr 29, 2010

easy to use, automatic There are no cons for me. This was perfect for what I needed. I had an issue and this detected the faulty stick, it was easy to use and it found the faulty stick in multiple cases. Issue resolved.