Posted by Agent Kith on 21 Aug 2018 in Snakeoil Tweaks
memtest86+: Checking Your RAM For Errors
memtest86+ is really an Operating System upon itself. As such you’d need to start it from the Snakeoil OS ISO. Please refer to the manual if you havn’t create a Snakeoil OS yet. Here are some prerequisites for memtest86+
- You need to connect a keyboard and monitor to the test PC
- The test PC must support legacy BIOS mode (to run 16 bit code)
This is the boot menu you should se when you first boot up the Snakeoil ISO:
![memtest86+: Checking Your RAM For Errors](https://www.snakeoil-os.net/media/blogs/news/quick-uploads/p170/_evocache/grub_boot_menu.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1534222638)
To start memtest86+, move the cursor down with the arrow keys until the entry Memory Test is highlighted. press the ENTER key to begin.
![memtest86+: Checking Your RAM For Errors](https://www.snakeoil-os.net/media/blogs/news/quick-uploads/p170/_evocache/grubmemorytest.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1534312591)
If your computer supports legacy BIOS, the next screen should be this.
![memtest86+: Checking Your RAM For Errors](https://www.snakeoil-os.net/media/blogs/news/quick-uploads/p170/_evocache/bootmemtest.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1534312594)
Over the next page we’d show you a short video of how to invoke memtest86+, run through the battery of tests and we’d end the article by describing the important bits.
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