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Originally, this question was asked here: How many passes are enough with Memtest?

The question is from 2013, and the answers are from 2013.

I am bringing it up again because it has been 6 years or more since it was asked, and that is an eternity in computer hardware years.

Fast forward to today. I am running memtest on my machine with 32gb ram. Gone are the days of catching errors in the first few seconds, unless something is REALLY wrong. A single pass takes a very long time to get to 100%.

I let my system run overnight and it caught 2 errors. It passed 6 times, failed 2. Do you think these are true errors or, is it more like its an acceptable amount of failure?

Edit: I ran this test because I was getting bluescreen errors that may be driver related, but i'm testing each part independently.

Edit2: Placed bounty on the old question because I didn't know you could do that.

CarComp
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  • "I am bringing it up again because it has been 6 years or more since it was asked" --> the solution is to place a bounty on the old question, not ask the same question again. You don't want people doing a web search to find duplicate posts which might then be equally outdated… – slhck Mar 10 '19 at 17:40
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    There is no acceptable amount of failure. Study well the Memtest results for the tests that failed, whether they are addressing failures relating to motherboard/CPU or only to RAM. – harrymc Mar 10 '19 at 17:43
  • Bounty placed. Thank you @slhck ... even though I only have 106 on superuser. All my points are on stackoverflow. – CarComp Mar 10 '19 at 17:53
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    You'll get there :) Thanks for considering to place a bounty. – slhck Mar 10 '19 at 17:57

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