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I think I have Mac's first virus!

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This seems like a virus because I'm new to the Mac thing... All of the sudden my computer locks with a black box in the middle of the screen with the background dimmed... It said in like four languages that I needed to hold in my power button or use the restart button to restart my Mac... I left the PC and couldn't figure out why my music was skipping and that shows up... Is this normal? OS X 10.3.9
 

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Kernel Panic. Usually but not always caused by bad RAM or other hardware issues. Can be the OSX install also. Not a virus. Not in any way.
 
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Yay! Glad I asked... Even when it crashes, it looks cool! I did put in some old 16MB Compaq ram stick, so it's possible...
 
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What I'd do, if you have the resources, is use an old Wintel machine and run MemTest86+

It's on the Ultimate Boot CD, which any one who fixes PC's knows how amazing of a tool this thing is. UBCD Download Page

It basically does read/write tests to your ram sticks and either passes it or fails it depending on how many times it fails to read or write. Thus, you can find out if your ram is bad or not.
 
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Yay! Glad I asked... Even when it crashes, it looks cool! I did put in some old 16MB Compaq ram stick, so it's possible...

Toss the 16mb ram stick... it is PC 66. Your 400mhz g3 requires PC 100/133 ram only. PC 66 will make the system unstable.
 

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Toss the 16mb ram stick... it is PC 66. Your 400mhz g3 requires PC 100/133 ram only. PC 66 will make the system unstable.

Agreed totally.
 
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I just threw it in for kicks... I realized that Safari makes my Mac run pretty fast compared to using FireFox so I stole the 133Mhz 256MB chip from it, and replaced the 16mb chip. I have another 256MB chip coming from techound1, so that should make it a bit more stable and faster! :)
 

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