Joy If I'v said it once - I' said it a hundred times - RAM sticks can not be taken lightly - they are the thinking end of your Mac - and they cost nothing when they work and to much when they dont!
Most suppliers do not offer "Maded for Mac" products - but Apple does has it's standards - put RAM sticks in your Mac that do not meet these standards and guess what - you paid too much! SOLUTION - trash what you got and find RAM DIRECT", it's a small company made up of x-apple folks - mostly engineers who at one time of the other wrote apple's standards - they know what you needed - and they are reasonable in there pricing - generally Ram Direct cost no more than the so called value brands! OK go girl and do what is right for you Mac - it will love for it! rich PS Let me know how everthing turns out - and yes I didn't mean to sound so trashee. --- Joy Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I ordered some new RAM from OWC--six 256M > sticks, because I need three > for my B&W G3 (for a total of four, including one > 256M I already have) and > my parents wanted three to max out the memory on > their PC, which also uses > the same kind. > > I prepared to test the memory using the sandwich > method described on this > list by Jeff Walther, using the 64M Samsung and 256M > Kingston DIMMs that > were in the G3 when I bought it. These were in slots > A & D (the first and > last slots). I had previously run the memory test on > the Samsung and > Kingston DIMMS overnight, and they passed over 5400 > passes. I know that some > of the memory is taken up in order to process the > test, so I can't consider > them absolutely good, but I figured I could work, > for the moment, from that > assumption. > > After the first two OWC DIMMs failed in slot B on > their very first pass, I > tried one of them in slot C, and it again failed on > the first pass. So I > wondered about whether both of those slots were bad. > After all, when I got > the computer, the Samsung and Kingston DIMMs were in > slots A & D, > respectively, and that's where they were when I'd > used the computer > successfully and where I'd done that long run with > no failures. So I removed > the OWC memory, left the Samsung in slot A and moved > the Kingston to slot B. > I successfully ran over 300 tests. Too impatient to > wait for thousands of > passes, I moved on, this time leaving Kingston in > slot B and moving Samsung > to slot C. Again, I was able to run over 300 passes > without a failure. > > So can I reasonably assume those sockets are > probably okay? > > So maybe this was one of those batches Jeff > mentioned, with a high > percentage of bad DIMMs? I'm now testing the rest, > but it doesn't look good, > as numbers 3 and 4 have now failed. OWC guarantees > their memory, but it's a > hassle, and I worry that I've somehow got the wrong > flavor of memory and > getting more of the same kind won't help. > > Thanks for any light anybody can shine on all this, > Joy > > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > Joy Freeman > ~ from manuscript to bound book ~ > Editorial, Design, and Production Services > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | > Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | > & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-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/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
