[P1] iBook Problems

[Paul Bernhardt]

Tim Gilman said on 12/11/02 10:52 AM:

>When I first got my iBook/800/12.1", I bought a 512 MB stick of ram to
>make OS X better.  I experienced pretty much the same problems -- disk
>corruption, and eventually I couldn't even boot the machine.  This
>didn't make me feel so good about 10.2.  Applications would randomly
>crash, too.  So I took the RAM back to where I bought and got myself a
>different one.  Now my system has been running flawlessly for the past
>month.
>
>Also, when I ran Apple's Hardware Test CD against the bad RAM, all the
>tests passed.  So, there's obviously some holes in the coverage of the
>testing.

the quality of ram can be a big issue. I upped the ram in my iBook when 
it was brand new, a couple of months ago and it immediately started 
having kernal panics. So, I took it out and all was fine again. Got new 
ram for the expansion and it worked great!

Paul