Well, I found the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool under Administrative
Tools in the Control Panel.

Took 5 minutes to run, and found no problems.

Dean

On 5/14/2016 11:55 AM, Dean Kukral wrote:
> I had something happen to me that's never happened before.  I was doing
> my weekly update of Windows 7, and I did the restart, and left.  I came
> back in two hours and I was on the screen that said, "Updating Your
> Computer Do Not Turn Off Your Computer," or something like that. But,
> it was hung up at 30%.  The three-fingered salute would not work, nor
> pressing esc, del, and whatever else.  I had to force a hard shut down
> by holding the power key down for four seconds.
>
> When it came back on the next time, I had it start as normal and all
> seems fine.  I think that nothing bad has resulted.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions of things that I should be doing?
>
> I have had some quirks since I built this a year ago, using the latest
> hardware.  It's possible I have some kind of a memory problem.  I tried
> to have the memory check at boot turned on in the bios of my ASUS ROG
> motherboard, but I doubt if it is running.  It doesn't seem to have the
> "slow boot"  like earlier bios that take time to run a memory test.  Are
> there some memory tests built into 7 that I can use or online?  I have
> four 4GB DDR4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance Memory.
>
> Dean Kukral

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