We had our main machine blue-screen on us a couple times within a week.
I took the memory out and put it into a different machine and ran Windows Memory Diagnostic from floppy (those USB floppy drives are cheap and actually functional and handy, by the way).
I left it running in Standard mode for about 24 hours. When I came back to check it, it had done 300 passes, and it showed one error during pass 132. (It also reveals which module when I drill down.)
Is this conclusive that it's bad memory? What are the odds it's a fluke mis-reading or perhaps some intermittent imperfection in some piece of hardware in the machine that this diagnostic test is running on?
The reason I ask is not so I know whether to replace the memory or not -- that's a given, it's history. I'm asking because I need to make a decision on whether our main computer that was blue-screening is now okay because we removed this memory, of if it may still have other bad hardware because this memory diagnostic is not really 100% reliable.
I would not rely on Windows Memory Diagnostic. Run the test again with Memtest86+.
In answer to your original question, no that is not a guarantee.
Run Memtest86+ on the main computer. Then run Prime95 Small FFT, Large FFT, and Blend. Be sure you can monitor CPU temps closely because these tests will make it hot. Without proper cooling and monitoring you can create a problem where none existed. I can't advise you on the monitoring program because you didn't include your specs, which is too often the case.
Sisoft Sandra has a nice suite of benches, which will stress your components and expose problems, but they are only free for personal use.
Message edited by Zorg on 10-05-2008 at 04:22:05 AM
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