powerbook g4 crashing

ducksrfr · Dec 13, 2006

i'm having some old school os 8/9 crashes -- everything just freezes up. no kernal panic screen, i can't move the mouse, the keyboard doesn't even respond so i can't apple-ctrl-pwr to reboot, i have to hold down the power button to shut it off.

this is the second time it has happened in the past 2 weeks. any ideas?

mad jew · Dec 13, 2006

What recent changes have you made to your system? Do you have plenty of free space available? What sort of third party hardware (including RAM) do you have?

ducksrfr · Dec 13, 2006

i have 70 of 80 GBs of hard disk space free. i added 512 MB of owc RAM in early october, but haven't had any odd symptoms until last thursday.

Hockeypuck · Dec 13, 2006

Try removing that new RAM and see if it goes away. You might have ended up with a bad stick.

mad jew · Dec 14, 2006

Yeah, I agree. Even though RAM can act normally when first purchased, a bad stick can sometimes take a while to actually start playing up. The only real way to test it is to run the machine with the stick removed for a while to see if problems persist. The software-based RAM tests are useless.

ducksrfr · Dec 14, 2006

ok, i removed the stick of RAM and sent OWC an e-mail. i'll see where it goes from here.

thanks guys.

Swarmlord · Dec 14, 2006

mad jew said:
Yeah, I agree. Even though RAM can act normally when first purchased, a bad stick can sometimes take a while to actually start playing up. The only real way to test it is to run the machine with the stick removed for a while to see if problems persist. The software-based RAM tests are useless.

It can act fine when it's cold and then act up after it's warmed up too.

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