I have a 13" 2009 MBP (2.53GHz C2D)
About a month ago I was toying around on boot camp, probably playing Sim City 3000 on Windows and thoroughly enjoying myself when POOF
System locks up
Thinking no big deal. I force a shutdown, wait about 15 seconds, and press the power button again. Instead of anything on the screen, I find myself terrified to the sound of 3 beeps.
So I research the problem, understand it is the RAM, so I open the bottom of the laptop, blow the dust out and jockey the RAM around (switched the slots) before I boot it back up to a successful boot.
However, ever since I have had nothing but problems with system freezes. Between closing the lid or just moving the system around, everything, including the mouse, locks up.
I recently upgraded the hard drive, thoroughly cleaned and again switched the RAM around before I installed a clean copy of Lion. I don't have Windows up and running yet on my new partition but I've slowly been building my new "system" and everything has been great.
Except here I sit in class to the system freezes and lock ups...yet again.
I suspect the RAM is the culprit, but I don't understand how any movement and/or the accelerometer could screw the RAM up.
Is there a correlation between the RAM and movement with system freezes? Is there any way to disable the accelerometer's effect on the HDD?
Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated
Thanks for your time
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RS
About a month ago I was toying around on boot camp, probably playing Sim City 3000 on Windows and thoroughly enjoying myself when POOF
System locks up
Thinking no big deal. I force a shutdown, wait about 15 seconds, and press the power button again. Instead of anything on the screen, I find myself terrified to the sound of 3 beeps.
So I research the problem, understand it is the RAM, so I open the bottom of the laptop, blow the dust out and jockey the RAM around (switched the slots) before I boot it back up to a successful boot.
However, ever since I have had nothing but problems with system freezes. Between closing the lid or just moving the system around, everything, including the mouse, locks up.
I recently upgraded the hard drive, thoroughly cleaned and again switched the RAM around before I installed a clean copy of Lion. I don't have Windows up and running yet on my new partition but I've slowly been building my new "system" and everything has been great.
Except here I sit in class to the system freezes and lock ups...yet again.
I suspect the RAM is the culprit, but I don't understand how any movement and/or the accelerometer could screw the RAM up.
Is there a correlation between the RAM and movement with system freezes? Is there any way to disable the accelerometer's effect on the HDD?
Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated
Thanks for your time
-
RS