Lost my Hardware Test disk!  Options?  Want to test RAM...

So my dual 2.0 G5 (first version) is starting to run really sloooow. Lots of pinwheel, long time to move between apps, etc. I'm wondering if the RAM is finally pooping out on me. So, I'm looking to run a looped Hardware Test overnight, to see what it may find.
Only one problem...I CAN'T FIND MY INSTALL DISK! I've got the 2nd disk here, but the 1st one isn't in the pack. Of course, it has the Hardware Test on it. I've got BOTH disks from my G4 PowerBook, but the G5 won't boot from these disks.
Any options here? Is there a place I can go to download this disk, or request another? Are there other recommended applications to test my RAM on this machine? I'd like to figure out what's causing it to bog down, as it's starting to get really annoying.

Are you saying that 2GB should be ok...
I'm trying to say that 2GB isn't much anymore, just for even Browsing the Internet.
My G5 came with 2 GB, tested it on my Dial-up even though I had 8 more GB already waiting before I got the G5... despite 2GB saying there was plenty of free RAM, upping to 10GB made everything faster... My Big Ataris handle a 2 button mouse & a full Keyboard with 40+ iterations of the F Keys in 100 Bytes, last Mac KB update was 32MB, last Mouse update was 80MB, things have gone exponentially backwards.

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