Is the memory stick warrantied by Omni? If they're a reputable outfit it should be. If you purchased the memory "as is" ... well, this is why I spend a bit more and buy Crucial or (on occasion) some other vendor which does have a full guarantee on the memory they sell. Patrick Draine On Aug 23, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Dennis Reeder wrote: > 14" G4 1ghz ibook. This ibook came with 128mb soldered on the > board and one open slot. Installed a 1 gig memory stick in the open > available slot. Memory came from Omni Technologies. Purchased > about 3 months ago. Was running Panther when the new memory was > installed. Worked perfectly. Installed Tiger. Has continued to > work perfectly. > > ibook is now running 10.4.2 with all of the current available > updates. Within the last couple of days it seems to be running > slowly - seeing the spinning beach ball way too often. Opened > About This Mac and was surprised to see that I only had 640 mb of > ram. Hmm. > Pulled ram out and reinstalled it. Started up machine and About > This Mac says 1.128 Gig of ram. Ibook runs for about 4 minutes and > then freezes. Froze while running Firefox. Only other app open > was Mail. So I restart. Open About This Mac and I am back down > to 640 mb of ram. > > What gives? > > Warranty has expired (it had expired when I bought it "new" from > MicroCenter) and there is no AppleCare. Long story, not worth > retelling. > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >