P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo on 7/26/01 3:55 PM wrote:
>> Don't have a clue as to whether this will help, but a friend of mine had a
>> similar problem and turned out that he had used third party RAM rather than
>> something direct from Apple. Apparently the powerbooks don't like third
>> party RAM at all...Anyway, he discovered this by sending his PB to Apple (at
>> a cost of $500) just to have them remove the RAM and tell him to do it
>> again.
>>
>> Good luck, Kim
>
>
> Since most of us have third party RAM in ALL our machines - you are
> barking up the wrong tree here. I am not saying there may not be a
> problem with the writer's RAM, but the fact that it may be third party is
> not important.
>
I have to agree with Turtle-Bear. I have two sticks of 3rd party memory in
my Wallstreet and it works perfectly. One is generic and one is Kingston.
Even Apple doesn't make there own RAM. They contract it out to be
manufactured to their specs. I'm sure that a majority of the RAM
manufacturers follow Apple's guidelines otherwise their would be no profit
in creating something that was destined to fail.
Perhaps your friends problem was related to the firmware upgrade not too
long ago that caused a number of PowerBooks G3s to not recognize certain 3rd
party RAM even though it would have functioned perfectly otherwise. Don't
recall the details though.
-makmac
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