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 ...

Memtest 4.2: command-line memory testing utility. This release has a new Linear PRN test which fills the entire test space with non-repeating pseudorandom data. Trash Locked Files 1.1: unlocks files ...

I ran memtest for 20 hours and got one error on test 7 for the 11th pass.<BR><BR>A lot of people seem to think that 1 error is sufficient to declare a mem stick bunk ...

I built two new machines over the weekend, and as with all new builds, I let the latest build of Memtest86+ run overnight. In these days of ever-greater quantities of RAM, that timeline doesn't afford ...

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 ...