New PB freezes randomly

zob

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Upon addition (it's been running smoothly for about three weeks using the factory installed memory) of a 1GB memory stick (Kingston, 2 GB total) my (latest revision) PB 15, 1.67, 10.4.3 occasionally freezes. The only way to get it back is to restart using the power button. PRAM and NVRAM reset as per instructions from Apple support. Freezes occur at random, i.e. the freeze is not associated with a particular program or particular actions, at least as far as I can tell.

Any help in this matter would be appreciated/ZB
 
Freezing like this is most likely hardware issues. If i were were you the extra memory would come out to test if one of those modules is going.
 
Yep -- pull that brand-new stick of RAM out of the 'book, and see if that helps with the freezing. If it does, you've narrowed down the problem.
 
OK, I guess I'll have to remove the Kingston stick; I was hoping to avoid that. Running 'memtest' at the moment, no apparent problems after the first cycle.

Thanks for the input!
 
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