{"id":30988,"date":"2007-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=30988"},"modified":"2013-05-03T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:02:07","slug":"test-ram-creation-station-for-consistency","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/test-ram-creation-station-for-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I test the RAM in my Creation Station for consistency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to do this is to use a utility called memtest86+. It will run as a bootable CD in DOS, and will perform a series of systematic RAM tests to check all of your system RAM for errors.<\/p>\n<p>To get memtest86+ running:<br \/>\n1. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memtest.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.memtest.org <\/a><br \/>\n2. Click on &#8220;Download (Pre-built &amp; ISOs).&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Choose &#8220;Download &#8211; Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)&#8221; and save the file to your desktop.<br \/>\n4. When the download is complete, right-click on it and choose &#8220;Extract All.&#8221; You will end with a file that ends in .iso on your desktop.<br \/>\n5. Click Start &gt; All programs &gt; Nero &gt; Nero OEM &gt; Nero Express.<br \/>\n6. Choose &#8220;Disc image or Saved Project&#8221; in the &#8220;What would you like to burn?&#8221; section.<br \/>\n7. In the &#8220;Open&#8221; window, choose the Desktop in the &#8220;Look in&#8221; window, and choose the .iso file you just downloaded to the desktop, then choose &#8220;Open.&#8221;<br \/>\n8. Leave everything on the default settings, and press Next when prompted.<br \/>\n9. Once the CD finishes burning, leave it in your drive and reboot the computer. it should boot automatically to the CD and begin running memtest. If not, reboot and press F-8, then choose to boot from the CD (which may show up as &#8220;PM Lite-On&#8230;&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>When memtest is running, you will see several different tests run, and a status bar indicating if they passed or not. If any large blocks of red show up on the memtest screen, then there is an error in your RAM. 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