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Guide To Using The Video Card Testing Program

The document provides instructions for testing graphics cards using a video memory testing program. It discusses preparing the necessary tools, understanding memory partitioning for AMD and NVIDIA cards, and running tests on A cards and N cards. For A cards, the test is run by entering commands to navigate directories and run memory tests, then viewing results files. For N cards, similar steps are followed to select a card model, run memory sweep tests, and view results.

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Guide To Using The Video Card Testing Program

The document provides instructions for testing graphics cards using a video memory testing program. It discusses preparing the necessary tools, understanding memory partitioning for AMD and NVIDIA cards, and running tests on A cards and N cards. For A cards, the test is run by entering commands to navigate directories and run memory tests, then viewing results files. For N cards, similar steps are followed to select a card model, run memory sweep tests, and view results.

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Guide to using the video card testing program

Preparation tools
1. The latest version of the video memory test hard drive
2. Test platform (with integrated display or at least two independent
display platforms)
3. The graphics card that needs to be tested (you need to make sure
that the power supply conditions of the graphics card are all met,
and there is no short circuit drop)
Before talking about the graphics card test, first understand the
partition of the video memory:

AMD graphics card memory partition：


AMD graphics card, abbreviated as A card in the industry, the order of the video memory is
A0, A1, B0, B1 in the counterclockwise order... Generally two video memory is a channel,
the low-level display exists before the high-level display exists
RX 系列排列方式如图：

The arrangement of part of the R9 series is as follows:


Video memory partition of NVIDIA graphics card:
In the NVIDIA graphics card industry, it is referred to as N card for short.
The order of the video memory is counterclockwise as A1, B0, B1, B0...
Generally, two video memory are used as one channel. Before the high-level
video memory exists, after the low-level video memory exists, and the video
memory exists on the back, the video memory can be regarded as the front side.
If the front and back graphics are in the same location, then the front and
back graphics memory are regarded as one video memory.
A card test: (take RX graphics card as an example)
1. Insert the graphics card into the test platform and turn on (the card
that is too expensive can choose to start with the integrated display), enter
the a card test program. Select the first system for RX series graphics cards,
and select the bottom system for R9 series graphics cards. As shown:

2. Type cd /home and press Enter to enter the home directory. (Note the
command space)
3. RX series input cd sh R9 series cd t and press enter to enter the sub-
directory
4. Enter cd rx470 and press Enter (enter the corresponding graphics card
model folder). If you don't know which graphics card models are supported in
this directory, you can enter ls to check the graphics card models supported
in this directory.
5. Type. /tserver -boardtest=memfa and press Enter to test. (The test
animation will appear when the graphics card is used, and the test animation
will not be displayed when using the integrated display) The normal test time
is tens of seconds to two or three minutes. If the card freezes or the test
results in a few seconds, it means that the graphics card has not been tested,
and the core working conditions need to be checked. The above problems may
also occur if the core is damaged or the BIOS is incorrectly brushed.
6.After the test, pass appears, indicating that the channel between the graphics card core
and the video memory is intact. If Fail appears, the channel has failed.

7. Enter pico memfa.log to view the results

The test result in the figure below shows that the graphics card is divided into 4 groups of
channels with 8 video memory, two of which are one channel. For example: ChA0 ChA1 means
group A channel, 0 means low video memory, 1 means high video memory.
The following figure shows the test results of the R9 series. For some R9 series, one video
memory is one channel. For example, ChA means group A channel. ChB means channel B. The
following 32 dots represent the 32 data lines of the video memory channel. If there is an error,
a number will appear on the video memory dot. It can be seen in the figure below that the 18th
data line of channel A has reported an error.

8.After viewing the results, press Ctrl+x to return and enter the command poweroff to shut
down
N card test:
1. Insert the graphics card into the test platform and turn it on (Note: N
card cannot be started with the integrated display, and the batch file can be
set to one-key blind test or blind typing commands for cards that cannot be
displayed), and enter the N card test program.

1. Enter ls to view the supported graphics card models in the file


directory. If there is no corresponding model, select a test file of a
higher model.
2. Enter cd xxx (the corresponding model folder of the graphics card, you
can enter ls to view the folder under the directory)
3. Type mats -e 30 and press Enter for quick sweep (the larger the value,
the longer the test time, the more accurate) or mats -c 30 for slow sweep.
4. After the test, pass appears, indicating that the channel between the graphics card
core and the video memory is intact. If FAIL appears, the channel is faulty.

5. Enter nano report.txt to view the results

6. After viewing, press Ctrl+x to return to the command, and enter pweeoff to shut down

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