Extended RAM Kaput?

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dedukes

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Hi.

I have an old iBook G4 15". It was running painfully slow when I turned it on after being on vacation for two weeks. The System Profiler shows only 256MB of built-in RAM. I had the max extended RAM (1GB?), but it's not showing (DIMM1/j31 shows as "empty").

What could have happened? I left it plugged in.... Could a surge have killed it? Or did it die of natural causes? Or is this an indication of something else?

Thanks for you help.

--dd
 
You can try reseating the RAM.

If that does not work, you can confirm if you have bad RAM with this: Memtest.

--J.D.
 
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Thanks, Doc. I'm running memtest now. I tried reseating. The RAM was available again for about 10 mins, then it disappeared again. Even before reseating it was doing that.
 
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