At 9:58 AM -0500 1/17/09, Dan posted: > At 1:24 AM -0500 1/17/2009, Steve R wrote: > > I'm confused. Why exactly do you think a bad stick of memory would > cause one DVD burner to talk at a lower speed while the other DVD > burner is fine? Are you seeing error messages from the kernel in > system log screaming about soft memory errors? (Hard memory errors > result in kernel panics). > > This sounds to me like you're trying to blame the speedometer for a >flat tire. >
At 10:10 AM -0700 1/16/09, Bruce Johnson posted: > On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Steve R wrote: > >> 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? > > Sadly yes, bad ram could be doing that. Get memtest ><http://www.memtestosx.org/> > and run it doing the long version of the test. and At 2:33 PM -0500 1/16/09, insightinmind posted: > On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Steve R wrote: >> At 4:22 PM -0800 1/15/09, glen posted: >> 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. Dan, Based on Bruce's recommendation and glen's real world experience, I was running memtest to see if the speedometer was indeed responsible for the flat tyre. My neighbour returned the original OEM RAM this morning so I could test the original RAM to see if the internal DVD burner would go back to burning 8x. It did, in both Disk Utility and Toast so I'll be returning the OWC branded RAM for replacement with a different manufacturer's RAM, regardless of what the results were with memtest. Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
