[Laurence]

I've posted a few questions here over the last few months and most of the advice was useful. Well, i have finally resolved my crashing issues under Jaguar and it was all due to faulty RAM.

So as a follow-up on this situation, why does the Apple Diagnostic CD pretend like it is testing RAM and really it is just printing out a message saying all the RAM is fine when in actuality it is not? After troubleshooting everything else I could find, I finally decided to try a few different RAM test utilities and all of them told me that my RAM was fine, until I tried Gauge Pro 1.2 from Newer Technology. After booting off a 9.1 CD and running GaugePro from OS 9 it gave me about 50 errors during the RAM test.

Regardless, after buying some new CL2 RAM from Crucial a few weeks ago I have not had one crash or even a damaged file (fsck error) system. I can't believe that Apple would ship a test CD that doesn't really test anything.

So for anyone else experiencing similar random crashing, get GaugePro and test under OS 9.

What about the new non-OS9 booting machines? I don't know. Any suggestions for a RAM test utility that works under X?

[yticolev]

Could you share where to get this utility? I found version 1.1 but it does not test ram other than to tell size and speed. Thanks!

[Laurence]

I'm at work right now, so I can't verify that it was v1.2, it could have been 1.1.

You don't check RAM from the main window but from one of the menus.

If I have 1.2 I can send it to you. I'll know in a few hours or so.