Hardware test for 2007 Macbook

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Hardware test for 2007 Macbook

I have a Macbook that has been unrelieable. Grinding to very slow performance on occasion. I could not work out if the problem was software configuration, external equipment or the Macbook's hardware. I have now reformatted the drive and installed a fresh copy of Snow Leopard. Everything seems OK.

Is there a hardware check facility on this hardware/software combination? It would be really helpful to know the hardware is OK before I do anything else with the machine.

The machine has had a replacement harddrive and fan fitted about 6 months ago.

Fan was canalbisied out of a dead Macbook.

Black 2007 Macbook 2.16GHz 2Gb Ram

640 Gb Harddrive

Thanks in advance

D

MacBook 2.16, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 1:17 AM

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STU9000

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Oct 18, 2011 3:15 AM in response to David Dobedoe

Not sure if it's the same with snow leopard but in Leopard you stick the installation disk in the drive, and then restart and hold down the D when it starts up. You can do either a quick check or a more detailed one. the quick one takes minutes and the longer one is about an hour or so.

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Oct 18, 2011 12:03 PM in response to Fortuny

Thanks everybody for your time so far. I've tried starting up with the D key held down and the Snow Leopard Instal disk in the CD/DVD drive and the machine just boots up as normal.

The disks that came with the machine are Tiger and yeehaa the Hardware test works from this disk so I assume the facility is not built into the Snow Leopard disks?

Take care

D

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Oct 18, 2011 1:51 PM in response to David Dobedoe

The facility is not built in to any retail discs; only the original discs that came with the computer.

The number of hardware configurations a retail disc would have to be able to check would make the HT bigger than the entire installer.

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Oct 18, 2011 2:20 PM in response to STU9000

You can use AHT from the original disc.

At least as far as Snow Leopard. I have no experience or information for "upgrades" to Lion, though it would be pretty **** silly if it didn't work.

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Fortuny

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Oct 18, 2011 5:40 AM in response to David Dobedoe

Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test

Stefan

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UK-Max

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Oct 18, 2011 3:22 AM in response to David Dobedoe

You can select 'about this mac' and then choose 'system report''. That will tell you the status of the various bit of hardware.

Is that what you mean?

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STU9000

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Oct 18, 2011 1:56 PM in response to noondaywitch

Does this mean then if you upgrade to a newer OS you can no longer use the disc that came with it to do a hardware test? If so is there any other way to do it?

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