Ram Issues

[Ih8reno]

I recently ran an apple hardware test on my macbook pro early 2011 2.3ghz i5 with 16gb of ram. It came back with error 4mem/60. I flipped the ram around and still the same result. Tried an old 8gb set and same thing, however when I put back the original apple ram it worked fine. My question is if I leave the 16gb set in the macbook will it do any damage? I hadn't noticed any major issues up to now but don't want to ruin this computer.

 

[disasterdrone]

I recently ran an apple hardware test on my macbook pro early 2011 2.3ghz i5 with 16gb of ram. It came back with error 4mem/60. I flipped the ram around and still the same result. Tried an old 8gb set and same thing, however when I put back the original apple ram it worked fine. My question is if I leave the 16gb set in the macbook will it do any damage? I hadn't noticed any major issues up to now but don't want to ruin this computer.

It won't do any damage, the worst that will happen is that you get crashes or strange errors. If you do, swap the ram out.

 

[Weaselboy]

I recently ran an apple hardware test on my macbook pro early 2011 2.3ghz i5 with 16gb of ram. It came back with error 4mem/60. I flipped the ram around and still the same result. Tried an old 8gb set and same thing, however when I put back the original apple ram it worked fine. My question is if I leave the 16gb set in the macbook will it do any damage? I hadn't noticed any major issues up to now but don't want to ruin this computer.

I don't believe it will damage the computer in any way, but running with bad RAM can cause data loss by corrupting data as it is written out to the drive. I would not run like that.