I needed some advice about how to proceed with an error message I'm receiving and I also wanted to confirm my diagnosis so far is accurate!
Had to do a clean install recently on an imac 2GHz intel core duo I bought used a couple years ago and went to reinstall world of warcraft and kept getting crashes. WoW's support staff had me run the apple hardware test and I received a 4MEM error message. I removed one of the two 1GB DIMM chips (sticker indicates they came from Edgetech) and reran the the test and received no error running the hardware test, so I'm assuming that means I've found the guilty culprit? What worries me is I tried to reinstall WoW without the defective chip but I again received an error message, but I'm thinking it might be just because the system is too slow without one of the chips?
I read that this system can be upgraded to 3 GB, so I think I'm going to replace the defective chip with a 2 GB chip. My question is I thought I remembered that I remembered reading that the DIMM chips work optimally if they are the same? Would it be bad for my system if I replace the defective chip with a 2GB chip and leave the other 1GB chip in place?
I'm also curious why the problem exists only when loading WoW. I've noticed my computer being a little slower on websites, but all my software has reloaded without incident except WoW. I'm leaning towards ordering the chip and to see if that fixes my WoW problem, but I've been considering just canceling WoW as the computer works otherwise. If one of these memory chips is somehow defective, would leaving it place hurt other components? I'm a little hesitant to throw more money at the problem if I don't know that will fix it.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Had to do a clean install recently on an imac 2GHz intel core duo I bought used a couple years ago and went to reinstall world of warcraft and kept getting crashes. WoW's support staff had me run the apple hardware test and I received a 4MEM error message. I removed one of the two 1GB DIMM chips (sticker indicates they came from Edgetech) and reran the the test and received no error running the hardware test, so I'm assuming that means I've found the guilty culprit? What worries me is I tried to reinstall WoW without the defective chip but I again received an error message, but I'm thinking it might be just because the system is too slow without one of the chips?
I read that this system can be upgraded to 3 GB, so I think I'm going to replace the defective chip with a 2 GB chip. My question is I thought I remembered that I remembered reading that the DIMM chips work optimally if they are the same? Would it be bad for my system if I replace the defective chip with a 2GB chip and leave the other 1GB chip in place?
I'm also curious why the problem exists only when loading WoW. I've noticed my computer being a little slower on websites, but all my software has reloaded without incident except WoW. I'm leaning towards ordering the chip and to see if that fixes my WoW problem, but I've been considering just canceling WoW as the computer works otherwise. If one of these memory chips is somehow defective, would leaving it place hurt other components? I'm a little hesitant to throw more money at the problem if I don't know that will fix it.
Thanks for any suggestions!