[X4U] DRAM failure (was Hard drive or hard drive controller gone)

[Linda]

On 1/18/06 12:51 PM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> So, it's looking more and more like a motherboard problem, but then how is
> it that the machine can pass memtest over and over and over AND run from the
> internal hard drive or from the Intaller DVD without freezing up?

Try rebooting the beast, and launch activity viewer, and set the window to
the foremost so you can see all the processes. Maybe there's a clue there --
what app is topmost when the computer freezes? Are any crash logs being
written when the computer freezes? Maybe also showing a console window would
provide some insight -- what's the last line of output in Console when the
Mac freezes?