Hello all,
I've had a PowerMac dual g4 450mhz in my office for quite some time. Mainly it's for learning OSX on to support clients that use OSX. Anyway last week I was in a shortage of PC133/100 memory for a client so I quickly scavenged the 4 SDRAM sticks of memory that was in my Mac thinking I could use other in it later.
Anyway later came and I found several other sticks of PC133 memory that I had and went to fire up the Mac. Mainly what I have are 4 different sticks of Kingston and Micron memory either 256mb or 512mb in size. Now here is where the problem happens.
When I insert one of those sticks of memory and power on the Mac, it begins to boot normally. I hear the immediate chime after I power the system on, then up comes the white screen with the grey apple logo and the turning 'gear'. However I began to notice that something was wrong when the system would sit there in that state for about 5 minutes. After about 5 minutes, the gray apple logo turns into a circle logo with a slash through it while the gear continues to spin.
I figured maybe I had screwed up the install so I decided to reinstall. However upon rebooting with the OSX 10.3 CD in the tray, I pressed and held 'C' key and the system started spinning up the DVD-Rom drive as if it was about ready to start the install. But once more the system hung on that circle/slash screen.
Are the mac systems really that picky with the memory? I ran MemTest X86+ on these sticks and they all passed with flying colors.
Ideas? Thoughts?
Brad
I've had a PowerMac dual g4 450mhz in my office for quite some time. Mainly it's for learning OSX on to support clients that use OSX. Anyway last week I was in a shortage of PC133/100 memory for a client so I quickly scavenged the 4 SDRAM sticks of memory that was in my Mac thinking I could use other in it later.
Anyway later came and I found several other sticks of PC133 memory that I had and went to fire up the Mac. Mainly what I have are 4 different sticks of Kingston and Micron memory either 256mb or 512mb in size. Now here is where the problem happens.
When I insert one of those sticks of memory and power on the Mac, it begins to boot normally. I hear the immediate chime after I power the system on, then up comes the white screen with the grey apple logo and the turning 'gear'. However I began to notice that something was wrong when the system would sit there in that state for about 5 minutes. After about 5 minutes, the gray apple logo turns into a circle logo with a slash through it while the gear continues to spin.
I figured maybe I had screwed up the install so I decided to reinstall. However upon rebooting with the OSX 10.3 CD in the tray, I pressed and held 'C' key and the system started spinning up the DVD-Rom drive as if it was about ready to start the install. But once more the system hung on that circle/slash screen.
Are the mac systems really that picky with the memory? I ran MemTest X86+ on these sticks and they all passed with flying colors.
Ideas? Thoughts?
Brad
