On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Steve R wrote:

>
> At 4:22 PM -0800 1/15/09, glen posted:
>> AppleCare suggested going to my nearest Apple store, which isn't
> feasible given the distance and the weather. The service rep did
> manage to track down an authorised reseller/repair that wasn't listed
> on their site, and bridged the two of us together for a case number
> and repair arrangements. Still, that's a 90 minute drive, on some
> accident-prone roads so the rep made note I'd most likely not be
> taking it in for repair till spring.

Could you mail it in? The US Postal Service: rain, sleet, snow banks,  
sub 0 weather ... poor guys and gals. I would ask for a replacement.
>
> ...
>
> Unless(!).... Last night I was burning a disc with similar files I'd
> burned before changing out the RAM. Using the same blanks that had
> previously burned at 8X, Toast was burning at a slow 1x/2x even
> though the setting was for 8x. I burned at second disc at 6x but
> Toast still burned 1x/2x. Is there any reason whatsoever changing RAM
> should have affected burning speeds? Should/Could I have done a PRAM
> reset on the restart?

I had bad RAM influence my QS 10.5 system to suggest my DVD RW drive  
was bad ... it works fine in another machine, and probably would do  
the same in the QS now that I removed the bad RAM.

Bill Connelly
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