Try unseating and reseating all the ram. Or, pull out all the old ram, and add in the new ram and see if that solves the kernel panics. On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:30 PM, the Claytons wrote: > (I have also posted these questions in the Apple forums in hopes of > solution) > > I have a problem with new-to-me G5 dual 2.0. After having a couple > seemingly random kernel panics two days I did some reading and > thought that I might be having a RAM problem. At that point system > profiler was showing that I had only 1.5 gigs when I was sure that > it had been showing me 2 gigs earlier - and the slot-thing was > showing two empty slots on the upper of the two banks. So I ordered > another gig of RAM. > > But now the system profiler is showing a full 2 gigs with all 8 > slots filled! I took a peek inside and indeed all 8 slots are filled > with 256 MB chips. What gives, any ideas? > > And, of course, the new RAM just arrived. -- Nick Scalise nickscalise at cox.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g5/attachments/20091014/6b368740/attachment.htm>