Has my memory gone bad?

My computer had been taking longer to boot at the part of the sequence prior to the login screen where the Windows logo is display with the running blue bar (I believe it's called the flash screen, but I confused another person describing it that way...) and there is a pause with a black screen before the log on prompt comes up.
After that it seems to run fine. I had thought that the slowdown might be the result of a trojan my VirusScan had picked up and cleaned out, but after some looking around I don't think the trojan ever activated before it was taken out.
I asked a CS major I know and he theorized the RAM might be bad. I have been using this generic RAM for quite some time now, so I suppose that isn't unlikely, especially since nForce doesn't have a reputation for being nice to chincy RAM. I ran Memtest86 and here are the results after pass 0:
I just wanted your opinion of those results, since the MemTest readme suggested that not all errors reported are necessarily memory errors.
Thanks!

Looks like you were right Stilup. It went through almost the entire pass without any errors unlike last time, but then at test 7 I ended up with 44 errors.
I suppose I'll put in an order to Crucial if I can't find any deals on non-generic memory around here.
On a seperate note, I noticed when the computer booted that the processor was no longer detected correctly. I remember others having that problem, but I forget which BIOS setting needs to be tweaked to fix that. While once I get some new RAM I could probably load the HPD and not worry about it, I noticed that on the family computer I made using MSI K7N2G-ILSR and an AthlonXP 2000+ Windows is detecting a 1.24 GHz processor right now, which is less than the 1800+ is supposed to be... not that they would likely notice the performance difference, but it seems a shame to waste it.
Axel, yeah that was a typo Glad I could give you a laugh.

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Hi,
I have just recently bought a Apple MacBook, i have had the Apple people to partition the hard drive so that i can heave both Windows and Mac on one computer.
Im new to Mac so I'm not sure how it runs and what to do.
On my desktop i have to hard drive icons one is Macintosh HD and the other one is Untitled, so you would presume that it would be Windows. When i right click the Macintosh HD icon and click get info it says that
Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Capacity: 47.88 GB
Available: 19.06 GB
Used: 28.82 GB on disk
(30,944,735,232 bytes)
I was just wondering where has about 28 GB has gone? i have tried search for some help on the apple site, but there is nothing.
I have about 8.5 GB of music on my computer and i have deleted all the movies and tv shows. Also i have iwork on my MacBook.
I was wondering if there is any how i can get most of the memory back and if there is a scan of some kind to show what is taking up the parts of memory. Also is there away of finding out if i have got Tiger or Leopard on my MacBook because the apple guys gave me a Leopard CD.
I'm only 14 and i know quite a bit about Window but not a Mac.
Please Can Anyone Help????
Thanks

You can use
WhatSize or Disk Inventory X to see what all is there. The macBook comes loaded with extra software. Office and iWork are both demos. There are some things you can get rid of.
These two articles can help you clean up some.
The XLab: Uninstalling Applications
The XLab: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
To see which OS X you have click the Apple in the upper left corner. Then read what is in the window. If is is Mac OS X Version 10.5.1 it is Leopard. If it has 10.4.? it will be Tiger. The question mark can be different numbers up to 11.

Where, Oh Where, Has My Memory Gone?

Last week I started using my iPod 20 Gb (clickwheel) as an external hard drive to backup my "Documents" folder. I've got about 4.5 Gb of music stored on it and had another 7.5 Gb worth of files and photos.
Since the actual available storage on my iPod has been something in excess of 18 Gb, I figure I've still got 6 Gb free for more files, right?
Something funny seems to have happened. My first couple of backup sessions went O.K., but then I started getting messages that there wasn't enough space to accomplish additional backups.
Obviously I'm missing something. I tried dragging my original Documents folder to the Trash, and certainly that folder doesn't show up anymore when double-clicking the iPod disk image on my desktop. I was just trying to start over, but whenever I plug in my iPod, there's the message that iTunes can't update because only 200 (some-odd) KILO bytes is available.
Any help would be much appreciated. I'm still going through learning curves with my Apple stuff.

this may be overly simple, but did you empty the trash? Until you do, the files are still on the iPod. You need to make sure that the iPod is connected to the computer when you empty the trash so that they're deleted from the iPod. If that's not the problem, then I have no idea what it could be.
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Has my M1424WR router "gone bad"? - and its replacement "bad" out of the box?

I've had Verizon FiOS service for about 3 years now, and have had very few problems with it. A few times I lost internet or TV during storms when lines came down somewhere, but that's about it.
The FiOS installer gave me an Actiontec M1424WR router and access port, with a coax connection to the outside box. I have a multi-room DVR setup (2 DVRs that can "see" each other, and a third read-only STB), so as I understand it I have to use the Actiontec (good bye to my old Linksys router used with my high speed cable service).
I have 4 computers attached directly to the router and up to 8-10 wireless devices (cell phones, tablets, wireless printer, gaming devices, streaming media players, etc.) on my home network. As such, I reset the router's SSID to the same one I had before, with 128-bit WEP security (a 16 char hex key). I also am "advanced" enough to know how to go through the advanced settings and start the DHCP address allocation to start at 192.168.1.100 to allow several of my devices (network storage drive, wireless printer, gaming systems, etc.) to maintain locally static IP addresses like 192.168.1.3 through 192.168.1.9 that reconnect when the router is reset or rebooted.
All this worked beautifully for about 3 years, until last week. The wireless network started dropping out - not just external internet access, but seeing other hosts in the home network - requiring a router reset to come back (or just a disable/re-enable of wireless service via the router settings at http://192.168.1.1). However, the "Wireless" light on the router remains green.
Even the wired internet connection (the computer hooked up with an Ethernet cable, right next to the router) would lose its internet connection for 5-10 seconds at a time before resuming. The multi-room DVR functionality would get spotty, too - until a reset, boxes couldn't see each other, playing back data from another box would be very slow or not come up at all.
After 4 goes of it with Verizon support via chat and phone (the experience of which I won't go into), which included a remote reset of my external access box by Verizon, I concluded that the router must have gone bad.
Last night, I went in person to a Verizon service station near me to swap the router, got back what they said was a "brand new" M1424WR, and installed it... To get the same problem, actually worse. The wireless drops out in about 5 minutes, the light is still green but no wireless hosts can ping each other or anything on the wider internet (like using Speedtest). I can use my wired internet fine (no hiccups there, yet) but my multi-room DVR is not 100%, two boxes can see the other two but one of the DVRs can only see itself.
It seems unlikely but I have to believe this is still a problem with the router box itself, and I just got yet another flaky one back, right? Nothing in my home network has changed (no new devices, services added, firmware updates, etc.) from last Tuesday when it was fine.
Any other ideas for me to try?
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Well, I traced it to a "radio problem" with a client device. It was a "Belkin F5D7330 802.11g Wireless Ethernet/Gaming Adapter" I was using to connect a network printer that has only an ethernet port to my wireless network (so I wouldn't have to run CAT5 cable to where the printer is situated).
To do this I had to remove/disable ALL my wireless devices and computers, then add them back in one by one... It was frustrating because I'd forgotten that printer was actually connected wirelessly, I was used to thinking of it as connected via an ethernet cable since I "knew" that's what the printer supported. I even unplugged my 2.4 GHz wireless phone base, which I actually believed to be the culprit. I only remembered the printer's wireless adapter after everything else was removed.
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Can Apple replace my macbook pro (mid 2012) retina's battery if I think that the battery health has gone bad/in need of and renewal?

Can Apple replace my macbook pro (mid 2012) retina's battery if I think that the battery health has gone bad/in need of and renewal???
I've had my Macbook for about 11 months now and i use it every day; its gone though about 420 cycles of charging and using the power, and i noticed the battrey preformance has decreased (as expected). The problem isn't sevear yet but it would comfort me knowing that i could replace the battery in the near future
Please contact me or answer the question if you know anything about this!

Exitio\'s Apple wrote:
Can Apple replace my macbook pro (mid 2012) retina's battery if I think that the battery health has gone bad/in need of and renewal???
No only if they think under warranty/AppleCare, but your likely able to pay for a new battery if they have them, which they might not yet since it's such a new machine still.
BTW, I have a Early 2011 17" MBP, 27 months old, charges to 97% and has only 14 cycles.

RAM has gone bad 4 times now, anyone else have bad RAM?

I purchased a 17" MBP (Early 2010) the week they were released. In the first 2 months, one stick of RAM would go bad at a time. This happened 3 times. The Apple Store replaced them the first 2 times, but on the third failure (after doing a diagnostic that found nothing) they decided to replace the unit with a new MBP.
It has been just over a month and one stick of RAM has gone bad on my new MBP. This is the 4th RAM failure.
I keep my MBP on my desk 99% of the time. I'm not doing anything crazy with it. It's almost always plugged in to a power source. I've owned many Macs and PCs over the years and never had RAM problems like this.
I got the feeling the genius employee who helped me this time was getting suspicious of the frequent RAM failures on two separate macs. If I were him, I would be too. But I know I'm not doing anything that would cause this (and I'm not opening up the insides of the MBP for fear of voiding warranty).
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If if makes a difference. On the 1st MBP, when booting up I'd get a blank screen, no beeps. With the 2nd MBP, I'm getting a blank screen but 3 beeps/blinking lights that repeat.

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If my problem isn't sorted out. i will have to post my pathetic experience with Lenovo on all the social networking websites. If the company can't assist us during the warranty period, I wonder what will happen if the warranty period expires.

Hi Azam,
As I can understand that the battery is not charging so I’d like to advise you to uninstall Lenovo Energy management from your application list and then reinstall it back from the below link we just need to make sure that the problem isn’t with the software issue:
For Windows 7(32bit-64bit):
http://support.lenovo.com/en_EG/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS030145
For Windows 8(32bit-64bit):
http://support.lenovo.com/en_EG/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031269
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How can i reformat my laptop when it has no memory of being a hp pavilion?

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I have a hp pavilion dv6 and it caught a virus. My recovery disk didn't work and I asked my sister for help.
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Firefox has a memory leak and I need to update it, but I want to keep 3.5 because I don't like how the newest version of Firefox is set up.

My computer is running low on RAM, and when I look at what processes are using the most memory, firefox is the number one using between 28,000 to 93,000k, so I'm guessing that it has a memory leak.
And because of that memory leak I have to update firefox, however I really dislike the newest version of firefox and I'd prefer to stick with the version I have, which is 3.5.

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I would in fact suggest you upgrade to Firefox 5 the current release version (soon to be replaced with Firefox 6)
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