how to Memtest

[50bmg]

problem: COD4 crashes after 15-30 minutes of play. This started after patch 1.7.

Many game forums, including infinity ward, have suggested it is a known conflict between COD4 1.7 and Realtek drivers for onboard sound.

- I updated the drivers. Did not work.

- I disabled my onboard sound in my bios and installed a new sound card. Did not work.

To the point of this thread. It has been suggested that my RAM may be getting hot or bad.

1. How can i see RAM temps? Everest, maybe?

2. I googled memtest. There are a dozen different memtests. Which do i use?

3. The couple of memtests i did try have .iso or .exe (for USB stick). That is fine, but none of the sites have instructions. I don't have a floppy. How do i mount the .iso to run it?

4. Are there any sites that can step me thru this? I did google it. There are many sites, which is trustworthy?

Thanks

Edit: oh yeah. I have not been getting any BSODs. No memory related error messages. Just the game crash.

I also did a fresh install of XP and the game. Still crashing.

 

[dallasjoh]

You will need an iso burning software like Nero. Download the .iso image and burn the .iso image to a disk and set bios to boot from the cd. Reboot and memtest86 will run automatically. A good test is to run it overnight. If you are having memory problems they can show up in the first ten minutes.

 

[evongugg]

You probably want memtest86+.
Did you set the correct memory voltage in the bios?

 

[evongugg]

ImgBurn 2.4.1.0 is a freeware you can use instead of Nero.

 

[50bmg]

Will do.

thanks

 

[50bmg]

Ok. I put an image of memtest86+ on a cd, using Imgbrn. I ran it overnight for 10 hours.

My ram passed.

Should this result rule out my RAM as the problem? I would think so.

thanks for the help