It may take a few hours to complete the extended test, but when finished the system will report any errors it has detected with your RAM. If you have a relatively new Mac, then these tests will run automatically when invoked however, if not, then you will have to click the Test button - but be sure to check the box for an extended memory test. To launch the hardware tests, boot your Mac with Option-D held down immediately after you hear the boot chimes, and the tests will download from Apple's servers. Therefore, to minimize the amount of RAM used while testing, boot to the Apple Hardware Test suite, and run the memory tests from there. However, these run within OS X, and having the OS loaded in the background restricts the memory the OS is using from being tested by these programs. To test your Mac's memory, you can use a number of tools, like the Terminal-based Memtest suite, or the OS X GUI wrapper for it called Rember.
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Read: Here's a fast and affordable way to upgrade your iMac's RAM Alternatively, if you are writing or drawing and have that same hole under your paper, then when you get to the irregular surface, you can puncture the paper or otherwise frustrate your workflow, like data corruption. This is similar to having a gaping hole on your desk, where things you use like pens, rulers (that is, applications), can fall through and be lost. RAM is the active work-desk that the OS and applications use for running, and if there is a problem with RAM, then problems stemming from crashes and freezes to data corruption can occur. If you have a used Mac, or a newer one, or one that you have serviced to upgrade its RAM, then it is highly recommended to test the system's RAM before relying on it for day-to-day activities.
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