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 ...

Laptops quietly monitor their own health, but most people never tap into the tools that can warn of trouble long before a crash or data loss. Built-in hardware diagnostics sit below the operating ...

The person who made MemTest86 says that memory testing is entering "a new era." The memory diagnostic tool will now show you which memory modules are broken visually. This means that users can now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year saw the emergence of a new memory module standard called CAMM2, a flat alternative to the SO-DIMM sticks used widely in laptops today. The benefits of CAMM are clear: they're thinner than SO ...

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 ...