Furthermore, it doesn’t run on its own - if you don’t think to run it, it certainly won’t detect bad RAM.
Even trickier is that the built-in Windows memory diagnostic tool doesn’t always detect a bad RAM module. This is because these issues can manifest and disguise themselves as any software symptom. What might be news to you, though, is that these little circuit boards’ failures are the cause, in many cases, of hard-to-diagnose computer issues. Most of you are older geeks - but if you are new to all this nerdiness, here is a handy-dandy Wikipedia article to bring you up to speed. I’m not gonna womansplain RAM (see Figure 1). Well, the creators of RAM (random access memory) testing programs must live in Texas because they named most of them “MemTest”! It has too many highways, they are all still being built, and they are all named I-35. While navigating our way down to Austin to visit our daughter over the years, we have learned one thing about Texas. A bunch of free RAM testing tools - most called “MemTest”
