I did a quick search and didnt find much
"Remember" looked promising, but it can only scan whats not in use.
I need a bootable cd that I can scan from
Ubuntu used to have memtest accessible from Grub, atleast for pc, but when I downloaded a copy of 6.10 and 7.10 for ppc it wasnt there

Ubuntu refuses to boot, giving an error I cant remember. Given it uses ram pretty heavily that lends to the idea of a bad stick of ram, right? I tried normal and -nosplash, both failed

I put OS X 10.3 on a Grape 333mhz G3 iMac and its been solid as can be
10.3 and 10.4 running on this 800mhz G4 eMac has been pathetic, programs will randomly stall and refuse to be killed

On a related note
The very bottom right corner of the screen on the eMac appears to shimmer somtimes. I'm not sure how else to explain it, and I cant seem to get it to happen again.
What can go wrong with CRT's? I've had decent luck with them, the few I've had.
If its a sign of imminent death I can still return the box, just a hassel. Got to contact them about the ram at any rate, rather have proof of some sort first though.

11/19/2007 6:28:29 PM

ISO image on CD-ROM
http://www.memtest86.com/

or the latest greatest memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 6:44 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2007 6:43:19 PM

Yep. But I was under the impression it wouldnt boot on a Mac, didnt want to waste a disk to find out

It will work then?

11/19/2007 6:45:14 PM

mac is the same hardware as a pc, the only difference is what OS you boot into and the CD is booted before the hard drive so no it doesn't matter.

but i don't really know for sure, i'm just talking out of my ass for this one

[Edited on November 19, 2007 at 6:55 PM. Reason : .]

11/19/2007 6:53:39 PM

a little googling found this:
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/memtest/

11/19/2007 6:57:41 PM

Tried, doesnt want to boot
held Option while booting, checked the Startup Manager, it only lists the harddrive. If it could choose the disk it should have displayed it

The intels macs might be a bit more friendly twards stuff like this, but it seems the powerpc macs like the emac wont touch it

11/19/2007 7:03:22 PM

wow, totally missed the fact it wasn't an intel mac, sorry

11/19/2007 7:07:29 PM

^no problem

I decided to go ahead and 'buy' http://memtestosx.org/
$1.39 is just an inconvenience, plus the fact I've gotten used to finding tools like this for free
ah well
Its running in single user mode, so its taking a minimal amount of ram.
Hope it finds something, its ram that I'm banking on it being.. otherwise I just dont know

11/19/2007 8:26:54 PM