[iBook] Fantasy Mac Buying

Clark Martin cmmac at sonic.net
Thu Aug 23 03:29:13 PDT 2007


At 11:05 AM +0100 8/23/07, Matt Hurst wrote:
>My two and a half year old iBook starting 
>crashing on me a lot about a month ago (kernal 
>panics, freezing, go slowsŠ you name itŠ) and my 
>local Apple Centre and got the IT equivalent of 
>'see if some aspirin help': 'Try a clean 
>reinstall. If that doesn't solve it, it's 
>probably the logic board.'
>
>I did, and it hasn't. It's a bit better, but 
>still crashing, although not in a BSOD way, 
>which means it's probably the logic board, so 
>that's £400 to sort out, apparently.

Pull any RAM in the slot and replace it.  If that 
doesn't clear it up, try just removing it and see 
if you still have the problems.

Bad RAM can cause all sorts of problems.  So can dirty contacts on the RAM.
-- 
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"


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