Memtest taking forever

[koldhart101]

I am running 2x4GB Ram in my computer. It would randomly freeze and the screen would go black or green, so I was advised to run a memtest. So far, it has 1 pass and is at 91% for the second, and it is at 18 hours of run time. It has been taking FOREVER. How long is it supposed to take to run the test? People say you want it to pass 5-6 times before calling it could. It would take 2-3 days to get there...

 

[GhislainG]

It depends on the memory and CPU. If you have very slow CPU and memory, then it will take longer, but I've never seen it take more than a few hours to test 8GB of memory. Please provide full system specs if you need more help. A system freeze rarely is caused by a memory error; what you describe often is caused by the GPU.

 

[koldhart101]

It depends on the memory and CPU. If you have very slow CPU and memory, then it will take longer, but I've never seen it take more than a few hours to test 8GB of memory. Please provide full system specs if you need more help. A system freeze rarely is caused by a memory error; what you describe often is caused by the GPU.

Specs are:

MSI Radeon R9 270X 4GB TWIN FROZR Video Card
AMD FX-8350 4.0Ghz 8 core processor
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Rosewill Hive 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
LG WH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer

 

[GhislainG]

That system should perform the memory tests much faster than that. Test a single module.

 

[koldhart101]

That system should perform the memory tests much faster than that. Test a single module.

I ended up just letting it run for awhile. It finished 3 tests and still shows zero errors. I've monitored my hardware all day and my cpu got to 54C, but that was the hottest anything got. Graphics never got more than 45C. I have been crash free so far today, but it still makes a weird popping noise in my speakers every once in awhile.