[Ti] system instability

John Lyon jelyon at mac.com
Tue Mar 8 10:11:45 PST 2005


Maybe this has already been suggested, but swap the two memory chips. I was
able find to a faulty memory chip this way on my TiBook a while back. Small
Dog made the exchange, no questions asked.

On 3/7/05 11:23 AM, "Kynan Shook" <kshook at cae.wisc.edu> either wrote,
forwarded or quoted:

> Pull the RAM, run DiskWarrior, and try your computer for a week or so.
> If you see a lot of errors with DiskWarrior, there's a good chance your
> memory is bad.  Other culprits can include the processor or cache, but
> those don't happen nearly as often on PowerBooks as, say, the PowerMac
> G5, because those components aren't as bleeding-edge.
> Anyway, AHT passing your memory means jack squat - partly because a
> software test can't really do a good job, and partly because it seems
> like you might have a heat-related issue where the memory is fine until
> it gets to a certain temperature, or other intermittent conditions are
> satisfied.

-- 
JEL




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