Reply 20 of 26, by gaffa2002
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javispedro1 wrote on 2022-10-11, 11:57:gaffa2002 wrote on 2022-09-23, 13:59:Used their own memory diagnostic program and it accused my hardware for being bad. Then I used memtest86 and after running it overnight the result was that my memory was fine.
Well that is strange. Isn't their memory diagnostic program run at boot time? It should not be affected by any drivers or the like.
I'm no fan of Windows, but I still find it hard to believe they would mess this up. Personally I'd really suspect the hardware, maybe it was temperature or something.
After formatting I never had any blue screen again, before that it was happening quite constantly.
Don't think it's temperature as I barely use the PC and it was cold. In fact, for the mem386 testing I left it running overnight, which should bring up temperature problems if any.
And yes, I also thought that was weird but by googling it there are indeed some people having false positives with this tool, my guess is that it performs some other checks besides memory (maybe something corrupted in my hard drive which was fixed after reformatting it?), some page on the internet even mentions that drivers could affect the tool results (not sure it is reliable).
Ps: Just ran another test with microsoft memory diagnostic tool and no errors found. My guesses are either this tool checks something else aside from memory, or something was wrong with my PC when I ran the test the first time...before the test I had to reboot several times because of blue screen errors, this might have left my RAM/CPU/motherboard in a wonky state.
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