RAM is usually one of the last components to fail. Your graphics card, hard drive, or motherboard are more likely to develop faults first. However, no matter how high-end your RAM, it's not immune to ...

Our monthly Troubleshooting Tools column, penned by MacFixIt Contributing Editor Dan Frakes, covers products that can help you maintain -- and, if necessary, fix -- your Mac. One of the most serious ...

Basically I was getting I/O errors on a hard drive, then two hard drives, then I decided it wasn't the hard drives and ran Memtest and started getting errors on tests 4,5,7,8,9 I believe. I did some ...

Bad RAM can cause unpredictable behavior in Windows. If you suspect that your RAM is the culprit of your woes, we'll show you how to test it. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San ...

To start with, I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, with two Crucial PC2700 512MB sticks, and an AMD Athlon XP 3000. I am not overclocking anything and as far as I can tell I have no overheating ...

MemTest also increases the performance and stability of the computer system by testing the reliability of the RAM by keeping a count of the failures occurred during the memory operations. MemTest is a ...

When it comes to PCs, most users expect a reliable and lag-free experience. The boot up process takes only seconds, programs open almost without delay, and videos run smoothly. But every now and then, ...

General-purpose memory testing functions. This code accompanies Michael Barr's article “Software-Based Memory Testing,” published in July 2000 issue of Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Zip file ...

The exact space available in the computer and the need for memory updates can be known by testing the RAM. If you have installed new applications on your computer, then it is compulsory that the RAM ...