Memtest86 4 passes?

UpGrade01

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Hey guys,

My system has been crashing occasionally without warning. Games with crash to desktop and at time i will get BSOD with a bunch of different error codes. So with that being said i starting running memtest86 and within the first hour it completely 1 pass. Im thinking "great, ill go to bed and when i wake up it should have completed 8-9 passes at this rate." So i wake up and see that the test only completed 4 passes with no error and barely started a new one in 9 hours. Is safe to say that something with my memory is bad or is this normal for memtest???
 
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Hi,
Make sure you run memtest 7 passes
Each pass has a very different algorithm to check the memory's, and after the fifth pass memtest will do a more troughfully test pattern all the way up to the seventh pass.
For 8GB memory it will take the whole night, but just let it run. If there is a problem You can directly interrupt.

If Yo find a problem, then remove one memory stick and run it again. Memtest will be twice as fast on half´f the memory. If no problem, exchange the memory sticks and run it again.

Best regards from Sweden
Hi,
Make sure you run memtest 7 passes
Each pass has a very different algorithm to check the memory's, and after the fifth pass memtest will do a more troughfully test pattern all the way up to the seventh pass.
For 8GB memory it will take the whole night, but just let it run. If there is a problem You can directly interrupt.

If Yo find a problem, then remove one memory stick and run it again. Memtest will be twice as fast on half´f the memory. If no problem, exchange the memory sticks and run it again.

Best regards from Sweden
 
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I understand but we are almost 11hours into the test only 88% through the 5th test 16gb