I just installed my 2x8GB RAM chips for a full 16GB of memory in a 2011 MacBook Pro. It's recognized and it shows up everywhere (System Information/Profiler, About this Mac, 3rd party tools, etc.)
However, in Lion, there is no more holding down the "D" key to run diagnostics and searching around revealed that there may be a .diagnostics folder that needs to be copied from the Recovery HD partition but I couldn't find it anywhere. (and yes, I did mount the "Recovery HD" and unhid the system files)
Then I came upon an app called "Rember", which is basically a "prettified" memtest with a GUI. I tested a couple of gigs and everything tested fine (while already having more than 9GB worth of applications and other stuff open). When I did the "ALL" function, I came across an error after a long time, but I don't necessarily trust that result, because it may not be compatible with Lion.
So...basically, I'd really like to check out my RAM to see if it's good. I'm a bit paranoid because Apple doesn't "want you to put in more than 8GB", but I could really use at least 12GB, but I'd prefer the full 16GB. Apple says to copy .diagnostics from the discs. What discs??? I'm totally fine with the whole no more optical drives but don't refer to disks that you never put in the package,
!?? I just want to (stress)test the heck out of my RAM...
However, in Lion, there is no more holding down the "D" key to run diagnostics and searching around revealed that there may be a .diagnostics folder that needs to be copied from the Recovery HD partition but I couldn't find it anywhere. (and yes, I did mount the "Recovery HD" and unhid the system files)
Then I came upon an app called "Rember", which is basically a "prettified" memtest with a GUI. I tested a couple of gigs and everything tested fine (while already having more than 9GB worth of applications and other stuff open). When I did the "ALL" function, I came across an error after a long time, but I don't necessarily trust that result, because it may not be compatible with Lion.
So...basically, I'd really like to check out my RAM to see if it's good. I'm a bit paranoid because Apple doesn't "want you to put in more than 8GB", but I could really use at least 12GB, but I'd prefer the full 16GB. Apple says to copy .diagnostics from the discs. What discs??? I'm totally fine with the whole no more optical drives but don't refer to disks that you never put in the package,
