Mem test

[Doug]

On 08/10/2014 05:57 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Good evening
> I was advised to run a "Mem test" on my machine.
> After some study to find out how that is done, I started it last night.
>
> This test is running now for 17 hours and keeps going .. no end "in 
> sight" (there is no indication when this ends)
> (while the numbers at the top of the screen keep chaning, at the 
> bottom it saysä
> ***** Pass complete, no errors, press Escape to exit *****)
>
> 17 hours! Is this normal?
> What is this thing checking, that takes so long? (HDD = 320 GB)
>
> Just wondering whether I should "escape" ...
>
> Thomas
>
That's completely normal. You run the test for as long as you think it might
take to find an error, then you press escape and go on to other things.
Seventeen hours ought to be long enough, I would guess. But it's not an
unusual time to run the test.

--doug