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Mac Leopard & Bad Ram?

April 6, 2008 by debbie T | Mac Software

Okay, one more update on my Macbook Pro and my upgrade to Leopard.

I received my new (reburbished) battery covered under my 1st year warranty and it seems to be working very well, until I switched to battery power last night.

The same issue with my screen freezing completely happened again. So, this lead me to believe that my problems were not necessarily all related to a bad battery (although my older battery capacity was very low for being less than a year old)

So, back to bad ram problem.

Today, I switched out the 2gb OWC suspicious ram stick with one of my original Apple 1gb ram sticks. I have been working on the Mac all day, and all problems seem to be gone!!! YAHOO!

Leopard appears to be running so much smoother (less spinning beach balls, which were constant before), and when I worked with battery power, nothing freezed!

Applications are launching like the speed of light! HURRAY! Now, this is how I imagined Leopard to run. With 3gb of ram, it is running like the wind. I am looking forward to getting the full 4gb back.

So, it’s obviously bad ram!!! Strange thing is I have been running ram tests, and nothing ever shows. Yes, is common for ram problems not to show up in tests, so I am assuming this pertains to me. I will call OWC on Monday to get a replacement. I have no doubt that they will help me. Their customer service is excellent!

There are 2 comments

  1. Seriously, who the hell cares?

    Comment by Leo on July 28th, 2008

  2. Well obviously you do, Leo, or you wouldn’t have posted. :)

    I don’t blog for others, I blog so I can remember the problems I encountered, and solutions I found….and if someone else learns from it, bonus.

    So, if you don’t like it, don’t read it. Easy as pie.

    Comment by debbieT on July 30th, 2008

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