Bad RAM
Recently I got a new MacBook Pro and bought 8 GB of new RAM to go with it so it would be maxed out and I could get the most out of my machine; however, since then I’ve had 2-3 system-wide freezes followed by 3 low beeps. The last time it happened was today at work which a co-worker checked a crash log and explained that I had bad RAM. To double-check this I downloaded Memtest to check my RAM for any bad addresses. First I (stupidly) ran the short version of the test which doesn’t check all of the RAM, big mistake. It took forever and didn’t report any problems, so I ran it again to check all addresses and almost instantly it found a bad address, and kept looking! It didn’t just stop after one, it kept looking and looking to find multiple bad addresses, stopping after a minute of tests to indicate a gross portion of my RAM was unusable.
After that I informed Newegg of the bad RAM and within only a few minutes the specialist apologized sincerely, asked me to verify my shipping address, and promptly issued me a replacement which should take about a week to get to them, get processed, then be shipped (expedited shipping) free of any charges whatsoever. Once again Newegg has given me the best customer treatment to date. Now I just need to open up my laptop…again.
