I nan't run memtest86 USB WinXP

[sky_shrimp]

Hi, PC noob here.

I would like to test my ram with memtest86 with a USB stick with a WINXP SP3 PC. I've tried downloading and extracting both Memtest86+ USB Installer.exe and imageUSB.exe.

Memtest86+ USB Installer seems to have worked as the USB is recognized as MULTIBOOT (F: ) in My Computer. ImageUSB.exe completes the img burn but shows up as just (F: ) in My Computer. Both times I selected reformat USB in the installer.

I don't have an optical drive for this computer so I would like to use USB.

I restarted the PC with the USB stick still in the USB 2.0 port and hit F1 to go into the Phoenix awardbios cmos setup utility.

Quick Boot = Disabled
Boot from other drive: Disabled

I went into bios features and boot sequence.

1st Boot Sequence = Removable
2nd Boot Sequence = Hard Disk

Removable Device Priority = USB-ZIP0 : USB DISK 2.0 PMAP or Floppy Disk
(I chose USB-ZIP0 by pressing + so USB was above Floppy Disk)
Hard Disk Boot Priority = Ch3M. :WD2500JS-00NCB1 or Bootable Add-In Cards
(I chose the HDD Ch3M)

I exit bios and saved.

I hit F8 to bring up the Boot Menu.

It gave me two options. Removable or Hard Disk.

Hard Disk has either Ch3M. :WD2500JS-00NCB1 or Bootable Add-In Cards.
Removable has either Floppy Disk or USB-ZIP0 : USB DISK 2.0 PMAP.

I chose USB-ZIP0 and hit enter, but it loads Windows instead.

I've tried disconnecting the SATA cable for the HDD but I get an error instead.

What might I doing wrong here? Thanks

[keith]

I would like to test my ram with memtest86 with a USB stick with a WINXP SP3 PC. I've tried downloading and extracting both Memtest86+ USB Installer.exe and imageUSB.exe.

Are you using MemTest86 or MemTest86+ (not our product). The naming is similar but they are maintained entirely separately, so if you are using MemTest86+ you should contact them directly.

Our MemTest86 packages don't have any files named "Memtest86+ USB Installer.exe". However, they do include "imageUSB.exe" for burning the image on USB.

ImageUSB.exe completes the img burn but shows up as just (F: ) in My Computer. Both times I selected reformat USB in the installer.

In ImageUSB, you need to select "Write image to USB drive" to create the MemTest86 Boot USB.

If your system supports UEFI, you should be able to boot MemTest86 v6. Otherwise, your system will boot the older MemTest86 v4. See this page for details.

[sky_shrimp]

Thanks,

I don't think my system supports UEFI. The motherboard is a old MSI MS 7324.

I tried again with ImageUSB and rebooted but it loaded Windows again.

18:01:12 - PassMark Software - imageUSB v1.2.1004
18:01:12 - Getting list of available removable USB drives...
18:01:12 - Inspecting Drive C:\...
18:01:12 - Inspecting Drive D:\...
18:01:12 - Failed to get Drive Type for Drive D:\: Error No. 1
18:01:12 - Failed with error 1: Incorrect function.

18:01:12 - Inspecting Drive E:\...
18:01:12 - Failed to get Drive Type for Drive E:\: Error No. 21
18:01:12 - Failed with error 21: The device is not ready.

18:01:12 - Inspecting Drive F:\...
18:01:12 - Ready...
18:02:11 - Drive F:\ added to queue.
18:02:11 - Starting to Write to Drive F:\
18:02:11 - Note: Disk image was not created with imageUSB previously.
Image file does not contain a valid checksum. Verification will be calculated from source image.
18:02:12 - Writing image C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\My Documents\Downloads\memtest86-usb\memtest86-usb.img to F:\ (drive 1)
18:03:03 - Drive F:\ write completed.
18:03:03 - Verifying written image on Drive F:\
18:03:21 - Drive F:\ checksum completed.
18:03:21 - MD5 matched. (F:\).
MD5 (Drive) : E12478ACFB8419839FD6A5E0E154D009
MD5 (Image) : E12478ACFB8419839FD6A5E0E154D009

18:03:21 - SHA1 matched. (F:\).
SHA1 (Drive) : 697E99EBC6BDFC85E2DFF086606FA2E29BF21773
SHA1 (Image) : 697E99EBC6BDFC85E2DFF086606FA2E29BF21773


Is the USB supposed to be renamed after burning memtest86 onto it? My USB is still named Removable Disk (F: ) in My Computer after the burn.

I'll buy another USB and retry.

[Richard (PassMark)]

According to the log, the creation of the MemTest86 USB Flash Drive was successful. What you need to do is to set your boot order in BIOS or choose your boot device at startup to be the USB Flash drive. See http://www.memtest86.com/technical.htm#boot