Allen,
Great tip. I've now downloaded DimmFirst Aid (at work, so I haven't tried it
yet). I have tried TTP 3.0.2, though, but I'm not sure what to conclude from
the result.
I'm no TTP wizard, so I checked all the RAM-tests in the general navigator,
thus checking VRAM, ROM, Clock processor ad the works. The RAM test itself
presented me with some doubts, though. The first half of the test-elements
were checked by default as was the choice to test free ram and not full ram.
Wanting to be really thorough, I checked all the tests and the free ram and
that ran fine until it reached the test called Minor March. That one was
cooking all night and still wasn't done when I got up this morning. The
clock on my menubar was running fine and the little round arrows were
rotating in the TTP window as well. All the tests were Passed. So I
thought, start from the top, only this time just with the two Minor and
Major March tests and checked in the Full RAM radiobutton. When I clicked
start all windows disaapeared (except of course the TTP ones) and the clock
stopped. I couldn't see anything happening, so I crash-shut-down (using the
Powerbutton on the computer itself - the one just below the screen).
Can anybody tell me what these March-tests are, and if they're suposed to
take forever. Maybe they're only for checking external machines, somehow.
mange venlige hilsener
Carsten Ortmann / DR / Rene Ord For Pengene
8739 7218 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:45 PM
To: Entourage:mac Talk
Subject: Re: Sv: Re: Strange and VERY annoying crashes
On or near 5/9/01 7:13 AM, Christian M. M. Brady at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Actually, there is a program called DIMMChecker (or something like that)
> which can check your RAM without running the firmware updater (which does
> not apply to your iMac anyway).
>
That program (actually called DIMMFirstAid) does not check out memory in the
sense of checking whether or not it works. It just checks the memory TYPE to
see if it will work after installing the latest firmware upgrade. Apple
released the upgrade set to disable memory if it did not meet certain specs.
DIMMFirstAid can actually reset the memory chip somehow (its speed or
something like that) so that some memory that Apple was disabling gets
enabled again.
But if you want to check out the actual memory functions, use TechTool Pro's
memory test.
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