My early 2011 15" macbook pro won't run AHT at startup when holding 'D' help???

when i first got my macbook 2 month ago after i put all my stuff onto it i ran a hardware test by resetting the comp and holding 'D' before the chime (i think, not quite sure which botton i pressed it was a while ago) anyway i forgot how to do it so i looked online n it said hold D when restarting, so i did this and nothing happens!!?!?! any advice please?

Since you are using Lion, you better read this thread - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3217292?start=0&tstart=0 or post in the Lion forum area.

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Apple is very good about support documentation when there's incompatibility or unsupported configurations, the fact that there isn't one for 7200 RPM drives would tell me that the people/person you spoke with was misinformed.
I know I always appreciated when a customer made it known to me that I was wrong on something and supplied the right answer. I sure as heck don't have all the answers and if I can lead from my mistakes, well, I won't make them anymore.

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32-bit Windows has an address space of 4GB. Part of that is used by system BIOSes and graphics memory. With my Mac Book which has a 1Gb graphics card you only get about 2.6-2.8GB of the RAM which would be addressable and usable.
The following site give more info - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx
Regards
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