Hello there, I'm new to this list and I think I need all of your expertise on this problem. A co-worker of mine has an original rev a imac that she needed some ram for. I suggested she try ebay where she ended up buying a 256 mb chip. I installed the chip last week and ever since the computer has been acting pretty random.
Right after I installed it the system would hang for awhile on startup... but then eventually boot and act normally. After a week of use the computer would no longer boot but would hang at the mac happy face. Sometimes it would give an error message... and sometimes not. The most common message was an error type 10. I took the machine back... took out the ram... updated the firmware to ver 1.2... zapped the pram, reset the cuda switch, rebuilt the desktop... ran techtool... (which reported the ram as being fine) After doing all of this the computer successfully restarted about 10 times in a row... and seemed completely stable... I shut it down and thought I had it figured out. After a day of being shut down I thought I better test it out before bringing it back to her. I started it up and it went back to acting the way it had before. System is 8.5.1 Firmware 1.2 any help would be hugely appreciated! Thanks Jesse BC -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
