MemTest86 Test 10 was moved to Test 13 because it got skipped.
MemTest86 Test 10 was moved to Test 13 because it got skipped.
Hi all, I ran the standard MemTest86 test four times today. I saw zero errors and so my RAM looks basically perfect at 99%. But wait, tests 11 and 12 didn't run at all because they were skipped. Here are some of the logs from the sleep moments:
On June 01st at 2:18, it went to sleep for about half a minute (300 seconds). It checked if my Intel CPU has an architectural temperature using MSRs. The numbers looked normal like 88240800. Then it ran some maps and more sleeping times.
Around 2:19, the system slept again for a full two minutes (65 seconds) just checking things. Around 2:20, it slept another 3 to 1 minute depending on how long it waited. It kept checking temperatures and doing memory maps while waiting.
At 2:23, it started stage one of the test with a random pattern all set. After finishing that first stage (612 seconds), it moved on to run test #13, which is called the hammer test. This test uses a random seed to mix things up. It turned on the memory cache before starting so everything could read properly.
Then the actual hammer test began running on my 4 CPUs. The RAM size was split into chunks like 128MB each time it checked for errors or ran tests. Over time, as it moved from one section to another (the numbers in brackets changed from 0x100... to 0x26E... and then back again), the test kept running on different parts of my memory.
Around 2:53, it was still checking temperatures while doing the hammer tests. The temp readings stayed around 88240800 or 88170800 which are normal numbers for Intel CPUs. It also did another map check and kept running the test on more memory sections like up to 0x26E8...
Then it continued doing these hammer tests until about 2:59 when it said "Starting Stage 1, Pattern=FFFFFFFF" again. After finishing that stage (about 3 minutes total), it finished all of its work and then asked me if anyone knows if this is normal.
Motherboard: BIOS Version/Date inside is Corp V1.28, dated 2019-08-05 BaseBoard Product Freed_CFS manufacturer CFL BaseBoard Version V1.28 RAM: DDR4 8GB RAM DeviceLocator Manufacturer ChannelA-DIMM0 Kingston In addition I don't think my laptop would automatically boot into the EFI, so I manually booted with f12 on restart. I found two identical options so I just booted into the first one and it worked so I'm assuming I chose the right one.