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Consequences of Bad RAM
Authored by: barryjaylevine on Aug 18, '08 09:19:49PM
AHT and TT Deluxe will often fail to spot bad RAM because the methods that are used by those apps to detect bad RAM are not stringent enough. In my experience, memtest always finds bad RAM although one should remember that a bad RAM slot may present itself as bad RAM.

Memtest may be found here: http://memtestosx.org/download/index.html

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Consequences of Bad RAM
Authored by: T0b1 on Aug 19, '08 01:50:37PM
1st off - one can hold D during boot and boot the apple system test from the install DVD. This found the bad ram for me.

http://matt.ucc.asn.au/memtest/
Works for me too and its free.

RAM tests during a running system wont work .....

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