On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:53 AM, John Hobbs wrote: > Eric wrote > >> Assuming the S900 boots with 7 sticks, you might try moving those 7 >> sticks around to make sure what is in the ram slots agree with the >> ASP. >> I'm assuming one of the 8 sticks for some inexplicable reason is >> giving >> problems. > Pete wrote > probably best to just put it down to individual quirkiness of that >> machine, >> and remove 1 of the 128MB RAM sticks. Other novel ideas still >> welcome. >> >> Cheers, Pete. > > Pete. > Assuming you have both machines together and time and patience to do it > Why don't you take one stick out of the "good" machine and replace it > with > one from the "bad" Fire up the "good" if it works take another stick > from > the "bad" and repeat the process swapping sticks from bad to good and > vice > versa if at some point in the exercise the good machine won't boot > then you > have found your problem stick. However if at the end of the exercise > "bad" > still won't boot then you can discount the ram as the culprit > Best of luck > John
Hi Pete & John, John's idea is good although a little labor intensive. I wish I had thought of it when when I was in the midst of my testing-beating my head against the wall trial. The stick I found that wouldn't show in the ASP tested OK by itself and when I put it in A1 and put all the sticks back (now in different slots), everything worked. Go figure. It would seem that the complaining stick just preferred different neighbors. That's nuts but who knows? Eric -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
