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Executioner
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Free Memory Tester

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Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.


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can it work form a dos window or do you need to reboot into dos

me
guess i need a new one...
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It creates a bootable floppy that you use to run the diagnostic. All good memory diagnostics are DOS based.

Rather pointless to run a memory tester from Windows when Windows itself is using half the memory....
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