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I picked up a laptop at the flea market. Seems to be Chinese product for internal market. It had Windows Starter that didn't even boot at all. I installed Linux and found out that its motherboard can't boot in non-UEFI mode at all. So no LiveCDs. In UEFI, there in no memstest86+. How can I ran some memory check of this machine, short of disassembling it and plugging memory somewhere else??? Windows can run memory tests after booting, can we?

Barafu Albino
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Try memtester. It's in the repositories (at least, for 14.04, which I happen to have running at the moment).

Alternatively, you could try memtest86 for EFI.

Rod Smith
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  • memtester is a strange tool, really. It can test only some amount of memory which is not in use by the system... What's the point? – Barafu Albino Mar 17 '14 at 17:18