On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 12/05/2011 12:00 PM, John R Pierce piše: >> On 12/05/11 2:57 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> Download Hiren's BootCD and use bundled Memory Test if your way is >>> complicated. >> >> that won't do much to detect soft ECC errors, will it? >> > > They are (there are 4-5 apps) checking various patterns in memory (write > then read), and you can run it for a longer period of time. > > As for ECC errors I can not say, I never ever used ECC memory or got > familiar with it. In my limited experience, if you can disable ECC in your BIOS, memtest is just as good at spotting errors on ECC as non-ECC. With ECC enabled, you'll need seriously messed up ECC before it'll be detected. jh