Apple Hardware Test dvd from Tiger - use in SL?

My Macbook Pro2,2 - 2,33 GHz was shipped with Tiger 10.4.8.
Since then I have installed Leopard, and last night I upgraded from 10.5.8 to SL 10.6 with the retail disk version.
Alas, I no longer have the Leopard disc, but the original Tiger Install disk 1 have the following info printed on it:
Mav OS version 10.4.8
AHT version 3A118
Disk version 1.0
2Z691-5967-A
Now I'm wondering if I can run the AHT from this disc, on the same machine, running SL 10.6 (Build 10A432)?
I have not updatet SL after installation.

Hi
It won't matter what you've installed on the internal drive. Booting from the original disks that came with your hardware will always work as the system being loaded will be the one on the optical disk, not the one on the internal drive. Upgrading the OS does not upgrade the hardware in a way that stops the original OS that shipped with that hardware from working.
The AHT Test is not an OS in the sense you're generally used to.
HTH?
Tony

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