Memtest86+ is back after 9 years of no updates

[Dafydd]

Summary

 After 9 years, Memtest86+ returns! The open source version of Memtest86 has been updated to support UEFI, modern Intel/AMD processors, but

still looks gloriously retro.

 

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For the uninitiated, MemTest86 was originally created back in the mid 1990s, and was one of the earliest DDR memory testing applications for personal computers. But development stopped in 2013 once Memtest86 was split into Memtest86 and Memtest86", with the former being bought by PassMark. Officially, we don't know why development stopped. But compared to the now modern Memtest86, Memtest86+ is the open-source variant.

 

 

Needless to say, version 6.00 features a lot of updates, which were required to bring it up to modern standards compared to the 2013 version. The new version includes completely rewritten code for UEFI-based motherboards, the modern version of a BIOS, for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the application.

 

 

 

My thoughts

 Heck yeah, open source! Welcome back.

 

Sources

 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/memtest86-plus-is-back-after-9-years

[Stormseeker9]

Used memtest few backs back for my ram. Worked a treat without the update!

cool to see such an old application receiving and update!

[WereCat]

Memtest is cool if you can't risk booting into the main OS but I got spoiled too much by RAM Test which uses AVX acceleration and is fully multi-threaded.

 

Memtest took almost 2.5h to do one pass on my 64GB of RAM while RAM Test does that under 15min... but it's paid SW so...

[CTR640]

2 hours ago, WereCat said:

Memtest is cool if you can't risk booting into the main OS but I got spoiled too much by RAM Test which uses AVX acceleration and is fully multi-threaded.

 

Memtest took almost 2.5h to do one pass on my 64GB of RAM while RAM Test does that under 15min... but it's paid SW so...

That's the issue I got with memtest. I had to wait for hours and since then, I never cared about memtemt ever again.

I'll keep RAM Test in mind if I ever have to test my RAM.

[Paddo]

I still use memtest a bunch at work. I just boot it up before I go home and let it run over night so I don't care that much for longer wait times. Glad to see that it's still being updated.