I’ve been using Memtest86 and its successor Memtest86+ for so long now, it’s hard to remember when I started; a decade ago to be sure. Memtest86+, as you might guess from the moniker, is a memory ...

RAM is usually one of the last components to fail. Your graphics card, hard drive, or motherboard are more likely to develop faults first. However, no matter how high-end your RAM, it's not immune to ...

I built two new machines over the weekend, and as with all new builds, I let the latest build of Memtest86+ run overnight. In these days of ever-greater quantities of RAM, that timeline doesn't afford ...

Our monthly Troubleshooting Tools column, penned by MacFixIt Contributing Editor Dan Frakes, covers products that can help you maintain -- and, if necessary, fix -- your Mac. One of the most serious ...

Memtest86+, an open source application for testing RAM stability and finding potential errors, has hit version 7 after its revival in 2022. The V7 release of Memtest86+ includes bug fixes, ...

But I'd question the wisdom of running memtest86 in a VM. By definition, VMs don't have access to all the memory in order for memtest to test it, and there are no guarantees about which parts of ...