At 12:43 PM -0500 1/17/2009, Steve R wrote: >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.
hum. Ok. it would be interesting to know what was thrown into the system log during all this. It just makes no sense to me that differing memory sticks would affect the burning speed of one drive but the not the other. You sure the new memory AND the drive cables were seated properly? Bruce? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
