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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...