[MPA] system crash

[Tom Dempsey]

I have had the machine since last March and added RAM in April. So the 
machine worked well for 10 or 11 months. I have heard some talk that 
problems like this might be related to RAM.

Tom
On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:38 AM, Luke Snarl wrote:

> sounds to me like faulty RAM
>
> did you add more RAM to the iMac around when these problems started?
>
> how long did you have the machine for when it was working fine?
>
> :L
>
> On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 07:59 PM, Tom Dempsey wrote:
>
>> I have been experiencing frequent system crashes over the past two 
>> weeks.
>> -G4iMac 1 Ghz 768RAM -  Mac os 10.3.2
>>
>> I think, but I'm not sure, that the crashes started when I was using 
>> Digital Performer 4.12 but now every application crashes eventually.  
>> I installed DP4 at the beginning of January and things were fine for 
>> 3 weeks.
>>
>> I have run Disk Utilities from the installer disk but it usually 
>> crashes during repair permissions.
>>
>> I have run Cocktail to repair permissions and that usually crashes.
>>
>> I have dumped my cache files.
>>
>> I have logged in as a different entity but the system crashes 
>> eventually.
>>
>> Crash formats have been:
>> Application unexpectedly quit
>> Gray veil with restart method
>> Freezing with a spinning rainbow ball
>> Freezing with white text on black - says "error: unaligned stack"
>>
>> These can happen at anytime and within any program - though it seems 
>> that DP4 and iPhoto are the least stable.
>>
>> My work in DP4 has only been short MIDI sequences - under two minutes 
>> and less than six MIDI tracks, nothing fancy.. Usually these files 
>> are in the  100K - 500K size. However, one six track MIDI file is 
>> 2.1MB. Is this file size and anomaly and if so could it be the reason 
>> for the crashes?
>>
>> I have discussed this recently on a Mac OSX list but until now none 
>> of the suggestions offered have helped.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tom in Skopelos Greece
>>
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