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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To start with, I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, with two Crucial PC2700 512MB sticks, and an AMD Athlon XP 3000. I am not overclocking anything and as far as I can tell I have no overheating ...

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 ...