The Major March takes weeks to months to run. The minor march may take many
hours to days to run. Don't worry about it, that's just the way it is.
Bruce
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Bruce Klutchko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 5/10/01 4:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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