My memtest86 hangs at loading.

I don't have a floppy to try the floppy version so I burned the .iso on a cd.

However after restart, memtest86 starts with a "loading......." message in DOS at which point it just hangs at this message. The system looks frozen, pressing num lock or caps lock do not do anything, and by ejecting the disk again it makes no difference. It just sits at the "loading......." message.

I have a P-35 DS3R Gigabyte mobo, E6750 CPU, 2GB Corsair Ram.

Any ideas? I have went into BIOS and dissabled all USB too, but did not make any difference. (I have a PS2 keyboard)

Thank you


P.S. I have did a chkdsk as well and after /p function and finishes scanning it says the drive has 1 or more errors but it does not give any kind of details. What is the next step. The only other parameter in help was /r.

You could try windows memory diagnostics from http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

If your ram is not just a single stick, try removing all but one of them and testing them individually.

If the cd is bad, try reburning one (use CDRW for test ?)

Also ensure that you are using Memtest86+ as it is the maintained version.

I agree. There are some memtest versions that do not work properly. My favorite is the one that looks like it is testing the memory, and finds no errors and does this even on a board with bad memory in it!

Hi, does anyone have a link to the "good" memtest then?

The one I got was from here: http://www.memtest86.com/

The 3.4a

And yes I have used 2 CDRW's and both failed.

I've encountered this as well on an old Athlon system. I tried different versions and they all hung. I tried the floppy version and that hung too. I eventually gave up and used the Microsoft diagnostics same as post#2. I never did find a reason why.

BTW chkdsk will make no difference. MemTest86/MemTest86+ loads straight from floppy/CD to memory. The disk is never touched.

MemTest86+ is at http://www.memtest.org/


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