Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Random access memory is the temporary holding place where your computer stores various data and information when it runs programs. A dead memory module prevents your computer from functioning properly ...

Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, but also dabbles in amateur photography. Based on Florida's Suncoast, she enjoys being a spectator to superb sunsets and lightning storms. How to test ...

A new RAM or Memory can cause a blue screen after being installed on a Windows 11/10 computer if the new one doesn’t match the frequency of the older one. There could be many other reasons, so you ...

The Vista Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool is a program that you can use to run various tests on the physical memory installed on your computer. When memory in a computer starts to fail, your computer ...

Laptops that experience reoccurring system crashes even though virus and malware scans come up clean may be facing a hardware problem: failing system memory is a likely culprit. Laptop RAM parallels ...

Think you might have a bad RAM module in your PC? Freeware utility MemTest86+ will run a memory diagnostic to help you find out. Before I explain more, a true story… A few days ago my laptop froze up ...

Is Windows misbehaving? Maybe it's freezing, crashing, or just not performing up to snuff. Diagnosing a general problem like this can be challenging. It could be software. It could be hardware. But ...

Microsoft is currently piloting a new feature within Windows 11, designed to check for memory issues following Blue Screens of Death (BSOD), often colloquially referred to as the "blue screen". Upon ...