I've an Asus laptop, but likely different from yours. I just tried the Crunchbang live (mine is on USB) and went to memtest and it fires right away. I wanted to see the presentation, as I believe most of these are essentially the same code. Do you have a different liveCD/liveDVD/liveUSB to try? Could be a bug in one particular version. JN On 09/21/2011 04:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just picked up a new ASUS laptop and first thing i tried was to just > boot from a ubuntu 11.04 dvd and do a memory test. but the memory > test didn't do anything -- the memtest+ screen came up, but no > testing, it just sat there. > > when i rebooted, it booted into ubuntu just fine so that's not a > problem -- just memtest. any reason that might be? > > rday > >