There was a time (Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 6:30 PM) when Philip Stortz said this thing:
>before giving up on the ram, it's worth cleaning the contacts. use a >clean pencil eraser >(pen erasers are too abrasive) and polish the contacts until they are >shiny, on an >antistatic surface like a wooden table or newspaper, and not in a room >with carpet!. >you'll have to blow off the eraser crumbs, the eraser can be cleaned >using a piece of >clean paper as needed. this is often a problem with ram that's been in >for several years, >particularly in humid areas, i've run into it a lot on older macs. might >fix your other >ram problems as well. generally, the only problem with generic ram has >been when it's >programed wrong (there is a small permanent memory chip on each dimm with >information >about the dimm, some manufacturers programed that memory wrong), and os x >will generally >ignore or complain about such ram, so your ram is probably ok. dust >bunnies in the >machine or a fan not working are also good things to check, any of these >things can cause >problems. also run your disk utilities, since os x uses swap space drive >problems can >cause problems that look like memory problems. The erase-to-polish tip is a one I've never heard before. I'll try it first thing tomorrow morning and hope for the best. I'm in the Northeast so I think that qualifies as a humid area. I seem to be running disk Utilities to Repair Permissions three or four times day these days. Also Cocktail to delete the caches and I've just reset the PRAM and run fsck -f followed by Repair Permissions again. Mark ---- Mark Gerber GERBER STUDIO/Tradigital Illustration <http://www.gerberstudio.com> ----------- Mac B&W G3 (Yosemite, v.2) w/OWC G4 500 500GB RAM | 12 GB & 60 GB HD Mac OS X (10.3.5) Two monitors (Radeon 7000/ATI VR 128) -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
