mac mini freezing

[kclark]

My 2010 mac mini is freezing up typically after about 45 minutes or so and having to do a reboot by holding down the power button. I have been doing some reading and it looks like it might be bad RAM. Is there a possibility that is the case? If so, that is great since it is an easy and pretty cheap fix. and if it is, what is the best RAM to get?

 

[alust2013]

That's possible, you may want to check the memory in system profiler, that would probably tell you if something was wrong with it. It doesn't matter a whole lot what brand you get, as long as the specs are right.

 

[philipma1957]

download rembr a free ram tester use it to test the ram.

 

[kclark]

can't find rembr test

 

[kappisto]

http://kelleycomputing.net/rember/

^ 1st result for rembr test on google... if you couldn't find it you weren't looking very hard

 

[kclark]

I found it, I was typing it in as was posted

download rembr a free ram tester use it to test the ram.

But anyway I had found it after further looking and it is running. Looks like I do have bad RAM.

 

[Minicube]

Case closed. Next?