G5 Memory Issues (I think)

[fishcorn]

I have a dual 2 Gig G5 that just last night started crashing programs uncontrollably. I had one kernal panic also, but mostly individual programs crash on their own, especially when more than one is open. I also noticed that the computer itself is just making more noise and seems to have to work harder to do the simplest things.

I ran a hardware test and it said there was something wrong with my memory, and it gave me this code: 2MEM/1/4IMMO/J11. I'm not sure where to go from here, if how much of the memory is bad, what exactly is wrong with it, and how I should go about replacing it. (Two 512 MB sticks.)

The funny thing is, I had the same problem about six months ago. Programs crashed uncontrollably for about a week, then it seemed to fix itself and it's run perfectly ever since. The hardware test came up with no problem back then, however.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Amen-Moses]

I have a dual 2 Gig G5 that just last night started crashing programs uncontrollably. I had one kernal panic also, but mostly individual programs crash on their own, especially when more than one is open. I also noticed that the computer itself is just making more noise and seems to have to work harder to do the simplest things.

I ran a hardware test and it said there was something wrong with my memory, and it gave me this code: 2MEM/1/4IMMO/J11. I'm not sure where to go from here, if how much of the memory is bad, what exactly is wrong with it, and how I should go about replacing it. (Two 512 MB sticks.)

The funny thing is, I had the same problem about six months ago. Programs crashed uncontrollably for about a week, then it seemed to fix itself and it's run perfectly ever since. The hardware test came up with no problem back then, however.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Try taking the memory cards out and swapping them over, while you are in there gently press down on both processors, Gfx card and all connectors you can see just to make sure everything is seated properly.

If you still have the problem I would get a decent quality (e.g Crucial) matched pair of 1G cards and put them in instead.

I had similar problems with stability until I installed all new RAM, the old RAM is currently working quite happily in an AMD 64 system but that only has a 266Mhz bus.

Amen-Moses