I'm trying to eliminate my RAM as a cause of preventing me installing/running MacOSX - I'm hoping for Jaguar or Panther rather than just 10.1 - on my upgraded 9600 with Crescendo G4/800 without having to revert back to the 604e processor. The NewerTech utility Ramometer complains about unknown processor, so that seems to be out. Any suggestions welcome, Thanks --
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Roger IMHO the best way to proceed is to forget about easy to use software utilities which can only tell you if the chip will hold an address or not but not how the Ram will work as a group of chips. Your memory may well show up as "good" in several utilities but glitch out at a crucial time because it is mismatched.
If you have had memory errors you can assume a RAM conflict.
So grounding yourself first and opening the machine. look at each chip and write all the info you can find on it. Pull out any odd chips and reboot
the machine. Launch a demanding application like Photoshop or Excel and run it through some complex functions until it crashes or freezes and note down the error message number. Or browse web pages to a similar result. If there are no crashes add chips one at a time then test as before. This may take hours or even days.
Chips mismatched for speed or very different in size from each other seem to cause problems.
This has been my experience.
-- Adrian
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