How To Use Free Apple Repair Utilities To Troubleshoot Your Mac

If you suspect a problem with your Mac there are several different maintenance applications you can use to troubleshoot a variety of Mac hardware issues. Which Mac repair utility you end up using will depend on both the specific problem that you are trying to fix on your Mac and also your comfort level and experience with troubleshooting Mac hardware.

Apple Repair Utilities

The first thing to try when you are starting to experience any semblance of hardware problems on a Mac computer are the free repair utilities that come included with all Mac purchases.

Apple provides a few different free Mac repair utilities in the operating system.  The AHT boot CD tests all of your basic hardware functionality such as the hard drive, memory, CPU processing, and video. These utilities that are included with the Mac computers for consumer use only tests for very basic hardware functions. A consumer version of an Apple Hardware Test that says all the hardware is passing does not always mean that is the case.

The Apple Hardware Test is mainly only used to rule out major or more obvious hardware problems. If your Mac is having a hardware issue and acting abnormally, the Apple Hardware Test is a good place to start troubleshooting your computer.

Disk Utility

Another Apple repair utility that can be helpful is Apple’s Disk Utility. This tool can be found inside the Utilities folder, in the Applications folder.

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