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Calling all doctors - diagnosis
worker201:
Why would I want to pay CAD$100 for an external superdrive when I can get an internal for USD$140?
New symptom - pixel-width horizontal line appeared in Safari. Disappeared when window was closed. Guess this can't really be blamed on Firefox. The graphical issues make me think that either the GPU or some of the RAM is failing. How can I do a RAM integrity test on all 2 GB?
Refalm:
--- Quote from: worker201 on 18 December 2009, 01:19 ---Why would I want to pay CAD$100 for an external superdrive when I can get an internal for USD$140?
New symptom - pixel-width horizontal line appeared in Safari. Disappeared when window was closed. Guess this can't really be blamed on Firefox. The graphical issues make me think that either the GPU or some of the RAM is failing. How can I do a RAM integrity test on all 2 GB?
--- End quote ---
Search for Hiren's BootCD on that well-known Swedish BitTorrent website. It has a number of memory testers, and loads without an OS (except for DOS of course).
worker201:
^ CDs aren't possible at this time. I can watch some DVDs and can access most music CDs, but seems like data discs are out. Boot from CD is totally out. The Superdrive is just that fucked.
I was thinking the other day that I should not replace the Superdrive, and not upgrade to a bigger hard drive and not upgrade to Snow Leopard - instead I should apply that $300 toward a new MBP. But I'll still be about $1700 short. :(
Refalm:
Hiren's BootCD also has an USB stick version.
worker201:
How do you boot from USB stick?
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