On Jul 1, 2004, at 10:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My first impulse told me that the RAM was the problem. I am willing to buy new sticks but I would love to have some recommendations of brands that are known to work well with this RAM finicky system. Swapping out the RAM will still necessitate a reformat I am presuming. I am getting tired of doing it but I guess I will have no choice. I may just upgrade the hard drive at the same time and make it all fresh and new.
Greg, since we have don't have lots of Pismo owners complaining about
problems with Panther we have to assume the problem is your computer. Two
things about your issue stick out: 1) you have no trouble with Jaguar but 2)
do have trouble with Panther and did have from the very beginning
apparently, not just with the most recent update.
Had you reported problems getting back to 10.2.8 I'd have immediately jumped
on the hard drive. But since you didn't I'm pushing the drive down to
suspect number 2 and bumping RAM up to suspect number 1. When we were doing
our Panther upgrades we had a couple computers that refused to upgrade - but
had been find with Jaguar. In one case we basically 'lucked' into a hard
drive problem we'd been unaware of - but this computer refused the downgrade
to Jaguar, unlike yours. For the others, we swapped RAM and found that to be
the problem.
Even so, I'm not confident enough to just say "Order more memory!" so I hope
you have a friend whose computer has compatible RAM or a friendly Mac dealer
who will quickly check out the RAM for you. Note: I had my own RAM problems
when I bought an AlBook. The first stick of 512 was obviously bad. The
second seemed fine until I tried to upgrade to Panther. That stick tested
out ok using Apple's hardware test CD but was obviously the cause of the
problem.
david
Greg
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