[G4] Gifted with a G4/500

[Crandon David]

My DP500 bongs only about one out of ten times I start it up, and  
otherwise it works fine.

David


On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote:

> On 27 Apr, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Christina Samuels wrote:
>
>> It's definitely not "bonging."
>
> If it is NOT "bonging", what sound is it making (if any)? The start- 
> up sound can give an indication of what sort of problem you have.  
> This is specially so if the problem involves RAM.
>
> Also, you didn't (that I recall) indicate how much RAM is  
> installed. Remove it and look for a label indicating how much RAM  
> is on the module. In order to run any version of OS-X, you should  
> consider at least 256Mb as a start and put in as much as you can  
> afford without having to break open the piggy bank. I don't have  
> any Mac running OS-X with less than 768Mb RAM (currently 1  
> MacBookPro, 1 G4 PowerBook, 1 G3 PowerBook, 1 PowerPC G5, 1 G4 MDD,  
> 1 G4 Gbit Ethernet, 1 G4 eMac, 1 G4 AGP, and 1 G3 Beige DT[this is  
> the one with only 768Mb).
>
> The more RAM, the better!!!!!
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