Dear Ask-a-nerd: Computer "check up" programs?

[pErvinalia]

from google: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofth ... rytest.htm
5 free memory testing utilities.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

from google: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofth ... rytest.htm
5 free memory testing utilities.

Thanks.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

from google: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofth ... rytest.htm
5 free memory testing utilities.

That was frustrating.

[klr]

The Control Panel won't do that. You need a low-level boot utility like memtest. I used it track down a fault in a memory module, which I was then able to get replaced. Be advised though that thorough memory checking can take exhaustive repeated cycles running into days.

http://www.memtest.org/

Memtest is also included in other diagnostic boot utilities, as well as being stand-alone.

What the fuck do I download?

An ISO image, which you burn onto a CD to boot from. Alternatively, you can boot it from a USB pen drive, if you use a utility like YUMI:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multi ... b-creator/

This might sound like being insanely complex, but it's actually very straightforward. If you run YUMI, you can tell it to add the Memtest ISO to the USB drive, and then choose that from the YUMI boot menu.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What the fuck is "YUMI"?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I have an ISO file. It won't copy to the CD. Unspecified error.

[klr]

What the fuck is "YUMI"?

See the link.

It allows you to install and boot from several different operating systems using a single USB pen drive. Very useful for creating a "Swiss Army Knife" with all sorts of diagnostic / backup recovery /partitioning / install boot discs.

I have an ISO file. It won't copy to the CD. Unspecified error.

Are you trying the "burn image to CD" option of whatever program you're using?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What the fuck is "YUMI"?

See the link.

It allows you to install and boot from several different operating systems using a single USB pen drive. Very useful for creating a "Swiss Army Knife" with all sorts of diagnostic / backup recovery /partitioning / install boot discs.

I don't want to do that.

I have an ISO file. It won't copy to the CD. Unspecified error.

Are you trying the "burn image to CD" option of whatever program you're using?

It won't let me copy the file to the CD to burn it.

[klr]

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I have an ISO file. It won't copy to the CD. Unspecified error.

Are you trying the "burn image to CD" option of whatever program you're using?

It won't let me copy the file to the CD to burn it.

Silly question time: You are using a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc?

[laklak]

I suggest sending $1000 to the Reverend Ernest Angley along with a photo of your computer. He'll lay on hands and drive the demons from it. Works every time, Praise God!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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I have an ISO file. It won't copy to the CD. Unspecified error.

Are you trying the "burn image to CD" option of whatever program you're using?

It won't let me copy the file to the CD to burn it.

Silly question time: You are using a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc?

CD-R. I use them all the time.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I suggest sending $1000 to the Reverend Ernest Angley along with a photo of your computer. He'll lay on hands and drive the demons from it. Works every time, Praise God!

Last time he laid hands on something he got smegma on them.

[pErvinalia]

from google: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofth ... rytest.htm
5 free memory testing utilities.

That was frustrating.

Huh?

[pErvinalia]

Regarding burning it to a CD, you need to specifically "Burn ISO image". If your burning software doesn't do that, then you'll need to download one that will. There's heaps of lite and free burning software on the net.

[klr]

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I have an ISO file. It won't copy to the CD. Unspecified error.

Are you trying the "burn image to CD" option of whatever program you're using?

It won't let me copy the file to the CD to burn it.

Silly question time: You are using a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc?

CD-R. I use them all the time.

So from here: http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
... you downloaded: mt420.iso
... containing: mt420.iso
... and are trying to burn the latter as a CD image?

Shouldn't be a problem.