I used to work for an Apple dealer, and now do tech for a publishing company, and RAM is almost always the first suspect for a kernel panic. Joe On May 4, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote: > Richard Gilmore said: > >> He does have a 512 stick of third party cheap-o-RAM. But I bought >> the same >> brand stick of no name RAM for my G5 and it's fine. But that could >> be the >> problem. I'll see about switching it. > > > It might be the individual stick of RAM. A stray static charge could > have zapped it, and it might not even have caused it to go bad > right away. > > > > Randy B. Singer > Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)