Mac Mini Restarts frequently

[stephndsz]

I have a late 2012 Mac Mini i5 Dual Core which came with 4GB RAM, been using it since December '13. I decided to Upgrade the RAM (Memory) to 8GB and bought 'Two Corsair Value Select 1600 MHz' 4GB RAM sticks and upgraded it to 8GB about a week and half back. Currently Running Mavericks 10.9.3

Since then I have experienced that the Mac during some youtube videos, and during hangout video calls, 4-5 mins into them (Chrome Browser) etc crashes and I get the 'Grey Screen asking me to press any button to Restart screen'.

It happens atleast once daily sometimes twice.

I've checked the 'About Mac' memory tab says 8GB with both sticks working fine. Even ran a Apple Hardware Test this morning and got a clean result. Have reset PRAM/NVRAM too

Can anyone help me with this? thanks

 

[paulrbeers]

I have a late 2012 Mac Mini i5 Dual Core which came with 4GB RAM, been using it since December '13. I decided to Upgrade the RAM (Memory) to 8GB and bought 'Two Corsair Value Select 1600 MHz' 4GB RAM sticks and upgraded it to 8GB about a week and half back. Currently Running Mavericks 10.9.3

Since then I have experienced that the Mac during some youtube videos, and during hangout video calls, 4-5 mins into them (Chrome Browser) etc crashes and I get the 'Grey Screen asking me to press any button to Restart screen'.

It happens atleast once daily sometimes twice.

I've checked the 'About Mac' memory tab says 8GB with both sticks working fine. Even ran a Apple Hardware Test this morning and got a clean result. Have reset PRAM/NVRAM too

Can anyone help me with this? thanks

Apple's Hardware test probably isn't catching bad memory. Run Memtest or try putting the original memory back in. If the original memory fixes the problem then you know what the issue is. Bad memory happens. Also check to make sure you fully seated the memory....

 

[thedeske]

Apple's Hardware test probably isn't catching bad memory. Run Memtest or try putting the original memory back in. If the original memory fixes the problem then you know what the issue is. Bad memory happens. Also check to make sure you fully seated the memory....

Agree - bad sticks likely the problema