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The test algorithms have been developed for over 20 years, with the origin of MemTest86 going back to 1994. See this page for a more detailed history of MemTest86 Unreliable RAM can cause a multitude of problems. Corrupted data, crashes and unexplained behaviour. Bad RAM is one of the most frustrating computer problems to have as symptoms are often random and hard to pin down. MemTest86 can help diagnose faulty RAM (or rule it out as a cause of system instability. As such it is often used by system builders, PC repair stores, overclockers & PC manufacturers. The number 86 following the MemTest part of the name, refers to the original x86 CPU instruction set http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86
that all of today's PCs use. This covers both 32bit and 64bit machines. (So there is no need fo

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