Arnel Tuazon wrote:
Had a kp happen to my B&W when I had good RAM that OS X didn't like. Your RAM might be fine it's just OS X doesn't like certain RAM in certain machines. The RAM I bought was PC 100 but it was from a PC store. OS X saw it as 128 instead of 256 and I kept getting kp's and lockups. I changed the RAM to proper sticks that were meant for the B&W and all is well now (knock on wood). Also 192 is very low for X. You should bump it up to 256 at least.
and Pete Flynn wrote:
I upgraded my daughter's iMac 333, same machine as yours, with OS X, and it is running fine. Also upgraded HD like you, to a 75 GB with the 8 GB partition- had some ram issues prior to the installation of OSX- she was on 9.1 already, so bought new RAM chip (256 MB) from 1 source (Apple dealer), which was not recognised in OS 9 as 256- saw it as 128... tried different position, resetting, etc., no joy. Took chip back, and then they realised they had given me the wrong one! I sourced the correct one locally again, different Apple dealer (DPI Mac in TO) and that worked fine. The OS X install went fine after all this.
Don't know where you are located, but try Mantek (Winnipeg) or CanadaRAM (Vancouver), or DPIMac in TO.
Good luck, Pete
Well... I just talked to the head boss at RamDirect, in lovely Santa Clara, CA. What a fluke. He happened to be in the warehouse office catching up on some paperwork.
The price for his 256MB stick is really hard to beat ($36US) *and* the shipping is by regular US Post Office (so another $7.50US). Comes out to be about $52CAN for everything.
He was telling me that he has a 233MHz iMac tray-loader with Panther that they still use in the office and he put in some 256MB sticks from their inventory and he knows that Panther can be 'icky' about RAM. He hasn't had many returns on his 256MB sticks going into the tray-loaders over the years and he'd be very happy to return the $$ if his sticks don't work.
So this versus $87CN + shipping + tax... that's just too much for a secondary machine (and at about 20% of the retail price of a Mac Mini, it juuuust pushes me over into 'donate it and be done with it' phase of rationalization :-) ).
Think I'll give him a try and see what happens... .
Bree
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