Nerd Boys » utilities http://nerdboys.com Tech tips, news and reviews Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:21:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to Run Memtest86+ On a Bootable USB Flash Drive http://nerdboys.com/2009/10/17/how-to-run-memtest86-on-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive/ http://nerdboys.com/2009/10/17/how-to-run-memtest86-on-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:30:28 +0000 Joe Kelly http://nerdboys.com/?p=592 When I install RAM, I usually like to test it with a program like Memtest86+ or its ancestor, Memtest86. Testing helps to ensure that the RAM is good quality and will perform reliably in your computer. If you don’t thoroughly test your RAM after you install it, you might learn much later that the RAM is faulty, perhaps when you are doing some serious multitasking and you are making full use of the RAM. Unfortunately,

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