ram

[kabwon]

ok, so i took out the 512mb, gna see if my comp stops rebooting at random now, altho i hate having only 256mb ram. ill have to wait it out.

the dude at the apple store told me that certain companies make specific ram for mac, is this true? i know macs are fussy bout the ram they use, but i have tried 2 diff ones and stil restarting.
anyway, any comments appreciated.

 

[kingcrowing2]

Well, i had an old G3 powermac, and that used standard RAM, the RAM sockets are all the same, so i don't believe that bran should make a big differnce, or it should at least not restart randomly, but try www.otherworldcomputing.com they have great prices and they guarentee their RAM will work on your machine

 

[kabwon]

argh, its not the ram, i took it out and just left the 256mb dimm that apple put in and it still restarts, i have erased the disk and reinstalled and it still does, think there is another problem, am going to take the whole thing back to the apple store on monday.

thanks for your comment tho.

 

[James]

Sounds like you have another problem alright, back to the store with ya...

Good quality ram of the Pc3200 400 will work. Only thing the "brand" does for you is guarentee that the ram meets certain specific standards. Brands like Corsair will give you a lifetime guarentee on their ram, where some off name usually will not.

 

[kabwon]

ya, i actually think its the ram that came standard with the imac, the 256mb samsung dimm that was in the imac when i got it, ive taken it out now and i will see if it still does this. if not then maybe they will give me a 1gig dimm just to be nice heheheh i wish! gna chek out the mac without that ram and then i will let ya'll know.

 

[Mr Bobbins]

Kingston make good Quality mac ram.

The problem with cheep ram is that if it doesn't meet Apples specifications especially in OSX then it can crash the system. I installed a 1gb chip in my imac and had a lot of kernel crashes (the ones where the screen goes darker and text in different languages comes up telling you to restart the computer). Anyway took the ram back and paid the same for two 512mb Kingston rams and haven't had any problems since. Cheep ram just isn't worth the hassle.