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 ...

Hoping the Linux branch is the right spot, but happy to relocate this post if needed. I'm trying to run memtest86+ on some ram, but it consistently freezes after just a few minutes of testing. When it ...

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 ...

I have an "old" (2005-era) laptop I'm trying to get running with some flavor of Linux. I tried a few versions on it and I always seem to run into trouble. Not knowing if this is just a Linux thing or ...

Think you might have a bad RAM module in your PC? Freeware utility MemTest86+ will run a memory diagnostic to help you find out. Before I explain more, a true story… A few days ago my laptop froze up ...