powerbook g3 pismo memory tester

[placson]

I recently upgraded my powerbook g3 pismo memory from 64Mb to 512Mb replacing the "stock" memory DIM on the underside of the daughter card.

OS X boots up quickly however when I run applications like iPhoto, MS-Word, even sometimes Safari I get, "application unexpected quit" I look at the console.log and nothing.

Furthermore when I try to compile my java applications froma terminal window using the javac compiler I get a weird "Bus error" from the command line..

I'm suspecting that I have bad memory but to verify is there a memory tester for my powerbook? I have 512 PC 133 SO-DIMMS by Lei-Systems. The memory was purchased from welovemacs.com (division of memoryx)

thanks,

Patrick

[dixonbm]

I recently did the same. I don't run iPhoto and wouldn't recommend it. It's slow on everything I've seen except for 1GHZ and higher. As for MS-Word and Safari, there may be a problem with your RAM. I don't know of any memory testers except for one that is from OS9, check download.com

I personally recommend you pull one of the ram sticks and see if you are still having the same problem. If you are then I suggest pulling the remaining Ram stick and replace the one that was initially pulled. If you still are having the problems, then I suggest you try your old RAM again. That should help you narrow your search for the problem. By the way what version of OSX are you running. I have the same problem with my OS 10.2.4 on my Dual 1GHZ. Turns out it's one of my ram sticks. However my problems don't show up until after a day or two of use. I hope this helps.

[placson]

Dixonbm,

Thanks for the quick reply!

iPhoto may have ran slow w/ just the 64Mb DIMM but it never crashed on me.. I'll try what you suggested and hopefully only one of the sticks is bad.

As an added question: has anybody purchased RAM from memoryx.com? If so what was your experience like?

Purchasing for me was great, hopefully the return process will be just as good..

-Patrick

[placson]

Dixonbm,

Hey I re-seated the sticks to try and isolate which stick was bad and it turned out that one of the sticks was not properly seated. I could see a slight un-eveness in the gold contact plates.

Anyway after re-seating I can compile my java applications and run all the applications that crashed before!

One thing that I did notice when the RAM was acting apparently bad was that when iPhoto would load one of my scanned images it would put a weird greenish/purpulish fuzzy stripe across the pictures. After the re-seating that stripe is gone and iPhoto has yet to crash.

Thanks for the reply and ideas!

-Patrick