RAM is usually one of the last components to fail. Your graphics card, hard drive, or motherboard are more likely to develop faults first. However, no matter how high-end your RAM, it's not immune to ...

Our monthly Troubleshooting Tools column, penned by MacFixIt Contributing Editor Dan Frakes, covers products that can help you maintain -- and, if necessary, fix -- your Mac. One of the most serious ...

To be exact, Asus A8V motherboard, A64 3800+ processor. After playing around with testing a drive on both of the two SATA controllers, all of a sudden the game I just installed, which for one day ran ...

I built two new machines over the weekend, and as with all new builds, I let the latest build of Memtest86+ run overnight. In these days of ever-greater quantities of RAM, that timeline doesn't afford ...

MemTest also increases the performance and stability of the computer system by testing the reliability of the RAM by keeping a count of the failures occurred during the memory operations. MemTest is a ...

Memtest 4.2: command-line memory testing utility. This release has a new Linear PRN test which fills the entire test space with non-repeating pseudorandom data. Trash Locked Files 1.1: unlocks files ...

The exact space available in the computer and the need for memory updates can be known by testing the RAM. If you have installed new applications on your computer, then it is compulsory that the RAM ...

General-purpose memory testing functions. This code accompanies Michael Barr's article “Software-Based Memory Testing,” published in July 2000 issue of Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Zip file ...