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I can remember way back when how amazed I was to order a new desktop computer with 2MB of RAM. Even the days of ordering a server with 64MB of RAM seemed like sooooo much memory. And in case you missed it, those are values in megabytes. Naturally today’s systems are in another class altogether. And while I’d like to think the quality of memory manufacturing has also increased over the years, things can still go wrong.

Failing or faulty memory doesn’t always manifest itself with a huge announcement. In the event that Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 detects such a problem, it will most likely prompt you to run the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool. But you can also manually run this tool anytime you’d like if you prefer to be a bit more proactive.