Uh oh...Memory Test Failed!!!

[IronMac]

A couple of days ago, I posted that I was having some kernel panics and weirdness happening with my system:

http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/658...#msg-65832

I had done the repair permissions advice and things seemed fine except that I was having a problem whereby I would not be able to type in the url box of Firefox (don't know about other browsers) but if I switched to another app such as Word and typed a few letters there and switched back it would work fine. I simply thought it was because I was running low on memory or some sort of Firefox fluke.

Then, this morning the whole system froze on me. So, I dug up the CD for Apple's Hardware Test and ran that...no problem. I then took rexrzer's advice and downloaded Rember and ran that. I did a 10-sequence test and the failures started racking up!

At the end of 58 pages of notes it says this:

"*** Address Test Failed *** One or more DIMM address lines are non-functional.
*** Memory Test Failed *** Please check transcript for details."

I guess I'm looking at testing each DIMM and replacing it right? :-(

[jeffNOTjon]

Remove half your RAM and run memtest again. Repeat as necessary until offending stick(s) is/are found. Note: Shuffling may be required :-)

[incognegro]

run memtest in single user mode instead of using Rember.