The “Mid-2009” and “Mid-2010” MacBook Pro models support 1066 MHz PC3-8500 DDR3 SO-DIMMs and officially and unofficially support a maximum of 8 GB of RAM, spec: 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory.
During the next few days, the MacBook Pro crashed or froze several times, randomly.
So, I ran the MEMTEST in single user mode overnight, three passes, and it failed on pass 3.
Returned the PNY brand and ordered online from Crucial. They offer a 45 day refund and lifetime exchange, which is much better than any local store offered.
]]>I have found in a couple of cases that this has led to errors being found. Might be worth a try.
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]]>If you can’t boot the mac, it will be difficult to put memtest onto the Mac. Good luck.
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]]>If you have more than one stick, try MEMTEST on the sticks one by one. If you have one stick, try buying another one (you can likely return it if you find out that’s not the problem).
Also, you are running this in single-user mode, without the GUI running, right? Single-user mode reduces the number of processes that are running in the background. If you’re not running the MEMTEST in single-user mode, then a runaway process may be making your Mac sluggish. An i7 MBP with 8GB of RAM should not be sluggish.
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