At 21:30 -0400 04/27/2002, Nancy L Haitz wrote: > I feel stupid testing RAM that has performed trouble free for a number >of years. But, I guess I did not feel I could trust the test results on >the new chips without knowing the old stuff was error free. > >Ahhh... another weekend of extensive computer training ;-)
Well, as Will (?) wrote, if you've had the RAM a long time and have not experienced freezes at start-up (failed start up RAM test) or unexplained crashing and such, then your RAM is probably fine. In the past, it was a very rare event to get bad RAM. But with this cheap stuff, geeze, you can more or less expect it. One thing you can do to speed up the testing slightly is to use a couple of 64 MB sticks as your known good DIMMs. The time each iteration of the test takes to run is directly proportional to the amount (capacity) of RAM that you are testing. So, if you use the smallest DIMM, which is large enough to hold the whole OS memory allocation, as your known good DIMMs, it reduces the time to test somewhat versus just using 128 MB DIMMs. You might even be able to use 32 MB DIMMs, but I think sometimes the OS uses more than that. Not certain though. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
