“It could be the RAM,” his friend Jamie said. “You should test it.”
From that day on, whenever a Windows 11 PC acted strangely, Alex ran the memory test first — just to be sure.
When Windows finally loaded again, a notification popped up after login: “The Windows Memory Diagnostic tested the computer’s memory and detected no errors.”
Alex breathed a sigh of relief — his RAM was fine. He later discovered the real culprit was a buggy graphics driver. But because he ran the memory test first, he ruled out the most common hardware suspect without spending a dime or opening the case.