Fair enough, I'll take the advice you and Bruce are giving, thanks for the hardware test link! With luck I'll have enough time to work on it tonight or tomorrow evening again. :-)
On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Brian Rule wrote: > >> Does anyone have any advice? > > Why not run Apple Hardware Test yourself? If you didn't get the disc, > you can download an image here: > > <http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html> > > I'm skeptical this is a bad Mac. I'd test the RAM very carefully. Once > you know the RAM is good, place one stick into a slot and leave the > others empty to test each slot individually. I've had "bad slots" > where a "known good" stick of RAM would be flakey and lead to freezes > and disk corruption if it was located in the bad slot. Once I quit > using the bad slot, the computer was fine. I marked the bad slot with > red permanent marker to remember not to use it. > > Often reseating EVERYTHING, meaning the CPU, Power Supply connectors, > RAM, PCI cards, . . . anything else can solve these strange > intermittent problems. But RAM seems most likely to me, unless the > Apple Hardware Test locates something. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
