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Memory Test
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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What the best program or at least what is everyone using to test new memory. I recently bought a gig stick and i'd like to test it. Thanks in advance.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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1.33 GHz 12" powerbook, 1.25GB
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Thanks for the link to the program. I'm running it now, and I've got one question though. I selected test all memory, and quit all applications and finder, and hit start. Now, even though I have 1.5 gigs of memory installed (all of which is recognized in "About this Mac", in the rember log it says:
Requested Memory: 878MB
Available Memory: 878MB
Allocated Memory: 878MB
Is this normal, or what?
Thanks!
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Denver
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Originally posted by PMDaly:
What the best program or at least what is everyone using to test new memory. I recently bought a gig stick and i'd like to test it. Thanks in advance.
Perhaps try the Apple hardware test utility. It's on the OS X system disc that comes with your computer. Start your computer with the disc in and hold down the option key to run the program.
Good luck,
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cakeandpie, Did the same thing you did as well as removed everything from my menubar (right side) and hid the dock. I then ran the program and 980something memory came up. I have 1.25 in "about this mac". On a side not... isn't 256 + 1024 = 1.28 gigs and not 1.25?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I would like to take this opportunity to clear up some common misperceptions about GB and MB.
1GB = 1024MB. This is because these relate to powers of 2, not powers of 10.
Thus, 1024MB = 1GB, and 256MB = exactly .25GB, making for 1.25GB total.
The only situation where this is not true is with hard drives, where advertised capacities are measured with 1GB = 1 billion bytes, rather than the true value of 1,073,741,824, or 2^30.
This results in the actual capacity (as measured by the OS and everything else) being less than expected. For example, a hard drive advertised as 80GB in reality will hold 74.5GB as we all know it.
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