[X4U] Hard drive or hard drive controller gone (mirrored doors G4)

[Wayne Clodfelter]

Jim,
Can't answer your question but perhaps it will be simpler to remove  
one ram stick at a time to isolate the bad stick. Just run the  
computer and see if it behaves.

On Jan 15, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> Last weekend I replaced my one of my son's two internal hard disks  
> (IBM
> "deathstar" - OK, "DeskStar) in his Mirrored Doors (1st generation)  
> dual 1
> GHz G4 with a Seagate 250 Gbyte drive. However, the computer still
> misbehaves, but now in a different fashion. It seems to run fine,  
> but we'll
> come back to it several hours after wandering away from it, only to  
> find the
> cursor frozen and the Mac unresponsive to any input.
>
> I downloaded and ran "memtest" in single user mode, and the testing
> application reports errors at two memory offsets. The errors occur
> inconsistently, but it's always one of the same two offsets.
>
> Is there some way mere mortals can read the hexadecimal addresses  
> to know
> which RAM modules are defective?
>
> A new drive last week, an ethernet card a few months ago, now new RAM
> modules. Pretty soon I would have been better off buying a new Mac!
>
> Jim Robertson
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Regards,

Wayne Clodfelter
wayne at troutnc.com