Adding 512mb ram doesn't boot up my MSI-6585!

My mobo is Max 648, MSI-6585 and I have Kingston KVR333X64C25/512 ram. I had installed it in first slot, moving 256mb PC2700 to other slot.
It will not boot up, and there were diagnosis leds light up telling me it's a fault memory or not installed properly so I took it back to shop and exchanged for another one.
And had a go with it, iy's the same as before.
I have been downloading test report and it states that this ram will work!
Is there anything I am missing? ?(
Installing ram should be straightforward??

Actually, 256mb pc2700 ram comes with motherboard works fine.
But my pc doesn't boot up with 512mb ram installed, even on its own (does boot up but produces some errors in windows XP)
However, I have checked everything and there's one thing i'm unsure about, I noticed that Hyper Threading is enabled on bios even though my intel CPU doesn't have HT. I have disabled it but i haven't test 512mb ram yet (with HT disabled) as i need to know what is causing this ram problem. Could enabling HT causes problem with rams or nothing at all?
I was contacted by Kingston support and they asked me if i have updated bios in my mobo and i checked, it's AMI 3.31a which is the latest at the moment as i have only received mobo a week ago.
But I have found other 648 Max mobo, MSI 6585 Mobo (without HT) it has bios version 1.5 as the latest.
My mobo manual logo say 648 Max (but didn't say HT)...could be mixed up?? ?(
But I assumed mine is 648 Max HT because my bios screen showed its AMI v3.31a which is like that since I receive this mobo.
Also could bios settings effect rams installed?

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Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 28) interrupt mode.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.P0P2._PRT]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 11 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *10 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5 6 10)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 6 11) *0, disabled.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 7) *0, disabled.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 4 7) *0, disabled.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 4 6 *10 12)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: PnP ACPI init
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) SCSI subsystem initialized
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x5c0-0x5cf has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x540-0x55f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x500-0x53f has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x4c0-0x4cf has been reserved
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: d000-dfff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: ff800000-ff8fffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: ce900000-de9fffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001000-000010ff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001400-000014ff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: 32000000-33ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: 34000000-35ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:01.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001800-000018ff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: 36000000-37ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: 38000000-39ffffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IO window: 1000-1fff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) MEM window: ff900000-ff9fffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PREFETCH window: dea00000-deafffff
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1e.0 (0106 -> 0107)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: setting IRQ 4 as level-triggered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:01.0 to 64
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:01.1 to 64
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP reno registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) apm: overridden by ACPI.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Initializing Cryptographic API
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler noop registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler anticipatory registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler deadline registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., P10 , 01.00 (OEM: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 )
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: VBE version: 2.0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5680
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c56ee, set palette = c00c5728
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: pmi: ports = d810 d816 d854 d838 d83c d85c d800 d804 d8b0 d8b2 d8b4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: no monitor limits have been set
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 6144k, total 65536k
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (94 C)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f12:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) TCP bic registered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 17
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Core.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Compression Driver loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Event source pit disabled
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Event source lapic configured with caps set: 08
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hrtimers: Switched to high resolution mode CPU 0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Encryption Driver loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 Swap Writer loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Suspend2 FileWriter loading.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI wakeup devices:
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) SMBS MODM P0P2 CBC1 USB1 USB2 USB3
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ICH4: chipset revision 3
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Probing IDE interface ide0...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 4.6, id: 0x925ea1, caps: 0x80471b/0x0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
Then I have to press enter and the powerbutton (asus M6) a few times, and then, a line at a time a couple of messages appear, then after "udev events" has passed, boot proceeds normally.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: IC25N060ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Probing IDE interface ide1...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hdc: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-830S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: max request size: 512KiB
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/7884KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: cache flushes supported
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5> hda3 hda4
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver hub
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 431 MBytes.
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.26.18 [Jun 22 2006] on minor 0
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) Capability LSM initialized
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) fuse init (API version 7.6)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) NET: Registered protocol family 23
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, chip->init
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
Jul 23 12:18:49 (none) pnp: Device 00:07 disabled.
I am using mkinitcpio already: /boot/grub/menu.lst:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26beyond root=/dev/hda4 ro
initrd /kernel26beyond.img
my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
MODULES=""
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide filesystems"
I tried removing scsi and sata, since my root is on an ide disk. But the problem persists.
also recreating an image using mkinitcpio or reinstalling the kernel26beyond package using pacman doesn't help.
Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong and how this problem might be resolved.
It seems like a trivial issue since the systems basically works fine otherwise. However, I can't figure it out by myself, I have tried for a week.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure if this will help you, but I suddenly was having a lot of trouble booting. My system would just freeze with a blinking cursor. I thought it had something to do with my floppy drive because if I changed the boot priority in my bios to boot from the hard disk 1st, the system would boot but would hang for a very long time in areas, and as long as 5 minutes loading uevents. I suspected this was a udev problem.
I issued a few commands to reset udev, thinking maybe recent updates didn't take effect, which did the trick...
# udevtrigger
# udevcontrol reload_rules
After that, everything is back to normal. I'm still learning about udev and I'm still fuzzy about a lot of the techy stuff.

IBook G4 doesn't boot

Hi,
I just bought a broken iBook G4 on eBay thinking I would be able to fix it without replacing the logic board. The iBook doesn't boot properly. When I press the power button, I can hear the SuperDrive start up, then the screen with the gray Apple shows up and the OS starts to load normally. But when that screen goes away and the blue background comes up, it just stops there... no "Loading Mac OS X" window with the progress bar. I figured that this may have been a deviation of the iBook G4 logic board problem where people used clamps to pin down the left side of the iBook and hold the faulty chip to the logic board, allowing the iBook to boot. I gave it a shot, but instead of using clamps I tried putting a small rubber shim on top of the faulty chip inside of the case to see if it would work. The first time I booted it up after I placed the shim, it worked fantastically. No hanging at the loading screen, no sluggish performance.
That was the way it worked for a couple of days. However, the booting problem soon returned. I tried booting from a Tiger reinstall disk to verify/repair the disk/permissions, but the iBook hung at the same blue screen. I didn't have the original install discs that came with the iBook, so I couldn't run a hardware test on it. I also tried booting from a Leopard install disk to no avail. Resetting the PRAM, NVRAM, and PMU did nothing as well. I even went so far as to replace the RAM in the expansion slot with RAM that I knew was working, but the iBook remained broken.
The strangest part of this was that the iBook worked perfectly on another computer when put into TDM. I was able to verify/repair both permissions and the disk from my Power Mac G5. Even though the iBook's screen becomes scrambled with random colors and lines after a few minutes in TDM, it functions just fine on another computer. I was even able to successfully boot my Power Mac and iMac from the iBook in TDM. Seeing as this was possible, I tried reinstalling Tiger on the iBook (in TDM) remotely from my Power Mac. It worked like a charm. Following that reinstall, I downloaded and installed all of the software updates. Then I tried to boot the iBook natively again, but to no avail. It still hung at that same blue screen.
At this point, I suspect that there is something wrong with the logic board that I am unable to fix without completely replacing the logic board itself. That's sort of disappointing, but I guess that's just the way it is. If anyone has any input to this, feel free to respond. Here are the iBook's specs:
CPU: 1Ghz (1064Mhz)
RAM: 256MB soldered, 1 expansion slot open
HDD: 30GB 4200 rpm
Screen Size: 12 inches
Optical Drive: Combo Drive
For the complete list of specs, see this page: http://support.apple.com/specs/iBook/iBookG4_Early2004.html
Thanks,
-Trevor

Trevor,
I just took the heatsink off and I see the GPU. However, there are multiple parts to it.
So that would be called a daughter card. The problem with a daughter card is that the possibility of a reballing/reflowing failure is increased.
Should I place a shim over the whole chip or just one part of it?
It's that whole daughter card that has the problem. I've got a post around here somewhere. Here's the thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6051715&#6051715
The picture is here:
http://tinyurl.com/3835w2
Also, what material should I use for a shim here?
Probably the most elegant solution would be to use thermal pads like the ones that are already there. Don't build them up too much.
What about from underneath?
My fear is that a metal shim will short the GPU and damage the logic board permanently. But I also fear that an insulating shim will not conduct heat as it is supposed to and cause the GPU to overheat.
Dale at Superior says that chip doesn't put out much heat but better to be overly cautious. I wouldn't use metal since there's no give to it. What's directly under that 9200 daughter card? One of my thoughts was to shim from both sides.
Where did you put that first shim?
Richard

Adding more RAM to Tiger

My ibook has 512MB's of RAM. I am happy with this. However since next year I plan to return to school to get a Masters in Ministry, I may need more RAM. From 2001-2005 while I working on my undergrad I used a Performa 6360 which had 136MB's of RAM + RAM Doubler. I was able to run some 20 apps at one time (or more) without a major slowdown. I cannot do this with Tiger, and since I plan to get the OSX version of Dave to access other PC's on the network (since whatever is built int OSX pales in comparison to Dave). On my Performa 6360 Dave was a necessity, since the campus dumped using Macs in 2002. I remember my 1st year (2001-2002) I could access a number of Macs on the Appletalk network at the time. But after the Fall 2002 semester the mac got dumped. Some students still used Macs, but fewer and fewer used them in the 2003-2005 years.
So my question is. Will maxing out my ibook to a gig of RAM although me to run some 20-30m apps at one time (like I could on the Performa) or was OSX Tiger just not designed for this?
OSX Tiger is much better than OS 9.1, but not in all areas as OS 9.x and before do have their advantages over Tiger.
Thanks,
John

My ibook has 512MB's of RAM. I am happy with this.
However since next year I plan to return to school to
get a Masters in Ministry, I may need more RAM. From
2001-2005 while I working on my undergrad I used a
Performa 6360 which had 136MB's of RAM + RAM Doubler.
I was able to run some 20 apps at one time (or more)
without a major slowdown. I cannot do this with
Tiger, and since I plan to get the OSX version of
Dave to access other PC's on the network (since
whatever is built int OSX pales in comparison to
Dave). On my Performa 6360 Dave was a necessity,
since the campus dumped using Macs in 2002. I
remember my 1st year (2001-2002) I could access a
number of Macs on the Appletalk network at the time.
But after the Fall 2002 semester the mac got dumped.
Some students still used Macs, but fewer and fewer
used them in the 2003-2005 years.
So my question is. Will maxing out my ibook to a gig
of RAM although me to run some 20-30m apps at one
time (like I could on the Performa) or was OSX Tiger
just not designed for this?
OSX Tiger is much better than OS 9.1, but not in all
areas as OS 9.x and before do have their advantages
over Tiger.
Actually, OS 9 does not have any advantage over OS X. You had 136 MB of ram plus RamDoubler, why do you think 512 MB of ram will be less adequate?
RamDoubler merely did what OS X does as part of how it works. It did not give you more ram it just allocated more to the app up front while dropping background apps as low as possible. This is what OS X does.
If you were running 20 - 30 apps with 136 MB of ram then they weren't ram hogs at all and it's very likely you can run them without adding more ram now.
OS X handles virtual memory much better too. In the old days I could run 2-3 apps at a time, now I can run 10-12, and most of mine are major ram hogs like Photoshop.
Kevin

Will adding more RAM to my Power Mac G5 make a difference?

I have a Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) with 1 GB of RAM, which is how I ordered it. Sometimes when I am viewing large (large viewing size) video files with Quicktime, the video files get a little choppy from time to time, especially when I have many other applications open. Will adding more RAM fix this or is it not really necessary? Also, does Leopard improve this problem? I am currently using Tiger.

Hey Tim
I'm definitely not an expert - but more Ram makes a huge difference. I'm not sure if more Ram will specifically solve your Quicktime issues or whether upgrading your graphic card is really the answer. Those more knowledgeable should jump in here. Buying Ram from 3rd parties, like OWC (making sure you do have the right compatible Ram), will improve your performance immediately. I noticed the difference when maximizing the RAm on my G4. It cannot hurt. 4GB of Ram for my G5 cost less than $200. I think Ram is the biggest bang for the buck.
Do you really need to get Leopard? The performance of Tiger on the G5 for me is solid. Seems like Tiger is optimized at this point for the G5 processor chips. Why muck around with all the potential problems you read about on these forums. Check out the Adobe forum and hear some of their nightmare stories. Who has this amount of time to waste on fixing what shouldn't need fixing in the first place. Just a thought - hope I'm not out of line for chiming in on this.
Since your model can take 8GB of Ram, indulge yourself and maybe buy another 4GB of matched Ram and if it doesn't solve your Quicktime issues, I'll bet it will make you happy with everything else.
Mike

PB 12" G4 supposed to have 512Mb RAM but only 384 ?

Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: PowerBook G4 12"
Machine Model: PowerBook6,8
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 384 MB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.0f0
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Version: 1.0
Ok those are the specs of my machine
It was bought June 05 and came with 10.3.
I then installed 10.4 and have updated to 10.4.4.
In October I was editing a large DVD file and my mac became really slow. I thought it was bc my HD was too full (which it was). so then I bought an ext HD and transferred heaps of data over..
But it was still really slow, the same as before.
I am pretty sure it came with 512mb ram and is supposed to. I don't remember what it said when I first bought it but I'm pretty sure it would've been 512.
I have not tampered with or opened the RAM slot.
I bought the PB from a reputable apple reseller here in Sydney so I doubt they would've done anything dodgy. I called them and they confirmed it should've had 512. They also told me if there are major probs it will take up to 4 weeks to fix.
Since I can't live without my computer for 4 weeks (!!) I thought I could figure it out by myself.
Any ideas?
thanks.

Hi Livia,
I had the same problem with my PowerBook. Suddenly 128MB of RAM disappeared and the computer became slow. I was sure I had 512MB of RAM.
You should check in the System Profiler under Diagnostics if there is an error.
In my case, System Profiler reported an error with the user-replaceable RAM. I installed another RAM (1gb stick) the computer only recognized half the RAM from the chip and System Profiler was still reporting an error.
Now I must to take the powerbook to the technical service because the problem is in the logic board, not with the RAM.
Powerbook G4 12" 1.5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)
PowerBook G4 12" 1.5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

ASA doesn't boot after update to 8.0.4

Hi!
I've updated one of our ASA's from 8.0.3.19 to 8.0.4 and it doesn't boot into system. Step back to 8.0.3.19 also doesn't help anymore.
Enclosed is the crashdump:
Rebooting....
Processor memory 185683968, Reserved memory: 20971520 (DSOs: 0 + kernel: 20971520)
Guest RAM start: 0xd3800080
Guest RAM end: 0xdd400000
Guest RAM brk: 0xd3801000
IO memory 39403520 bytes
IO memory start: 0xd0fff000
IO memory end: 0xd3593000
Error getting l2p for anon memory 0xd4647750
Thread Name: vfw_init_thread (Old pc 0x0854297c ebp 0xd3fa7460)
Page fault: Address not mapped
vector 0x0000000e
edi 0x00019000
esi 0x00000006
ebp 0xd3fa7260
esp 0xd3fa7248
ebx 0xd4647750
edx 0x0000002d
ecx 0x00000001
eax 0x00000000
error code 0x00000006
eip 0x08966628
cs 0x00000073
eflags 0x00013246
CR2 0x00000000
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(4)
Compiled on Thu 07-Aug-08 20:53 by builders
Hardware: ASA5505
Crashinfo collected on 11:42:23.359 UTC Thu Aug 21 2008
Traceback:
0: 080587b3
1: 0805a4e9
2: 08965099
3: dd7a76d5
4: dd6a61e0
5: 090a0943
6: 090998e1
7: 086d7ead
8: 086d9b2d
9: 086c3f7e
10: 0864d09b
11: 0885f452
12: 08061c35
13: 08824525
14: 0886a655
15: 0805e983
Stack dump: base:0xd3fa7160 size:312, active:312
entries above '==': return PC preceded by input parameters
entries below '==': local variables followed by saved regs
'==Fn': stack frame n, contains next stack frame
'*': stack pointer at crash
For example:
0xeeeeef00: 0x005d0707 : arg3
0xeeeeeefc: 0x00000159 : arg2
0xeeeeeef8: 0x005d0722 : arg1
0xeeeeeef4: 0x005d1754 : return PC
0xeeeeeef0: 0xeeeeef20 ==F2: stack frame F2
0xeeeeeeec: 0x00def9e0 : local variable
0xeeeeeee8: 0x0187df9e : local variable or saved reg
0xeeeeeee4: 0x01191548 : local variable or saved reg
0xeeeeeee0: 0x014dde20 : local variable or saved reg
0xd3fa7640: 0x000391fc
0xd3fa7164: 0x00000280
Begin to dump crashinfo to flash....
An internal error occurred. Specifically, a programming assertion was
violated. Copy the error message exactly as it appears, and get the
output of the show version command and the contents of the configuration
file. Then call your technical support representative.
assertion "t->stack[0] == STKINIT" failed: file "thread.c", line 709
Traceback output aborted.
Flushing first exception frame:
Page fault: Address not mapped
vector 0x0000000e
edi 0x00019000
esi 0x00000006
ebp 0xd3fa7260
esp 0xd3fa7248
ebx 0xd4647750
edx 0x0000002d
ecx 0x00000001
eax 0x00000000
error code 0x00000006
eip 0x08966628
cs 0x00000073
eflags 0x00013246
CR2 0x00000000
Nested traceback attempted via signal, from:
Abort: Assert failure
vector 0x0000000e
edi 0x09b7a7f0
esi 0xd3c2a020
ebp 0xd0e6a928
esp 0xd0e6a91c
ebx 0x0000014e
edx 0x00000000
ecx 0x00000006
eax 0x00000000
error code 0x00000006
eip 0xdd6a62a1
cs 0x00000073
eflags 0x00003246
CR2 0x00000000
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(4)
Compiled on Thu 07-Aug-08 20:53 by builders
Hardware: ASA5505
Crashinfo collected on 11:42:31.539 UTC Thu Aug 21 2008
Traceback:
0: 080587b3
1: 08058844
2: 080588bf
3: 08964eb2
4: dd7a76d5
5: dd6a61e0
6: 080605ea
7: 08060e17
8: 0805d257
9: 0896624d
10: 0896462c
11: dd7a2a1c
12: dd74a7d7
Any ideas?
Thanks,
MB

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Loading...
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Hi,
Maybe someone can help me resolving a (re) boot issue with my Mac Book Pro. Last few weeks I experienced a tremendous drop in performance (start-up as well as handling and using applications).
Yesterday I downloaded and installed an app to clean stuff from the mac, such as binaries that aren't used, cache files, etc. It resulted in substantial better performance. Than, I used the updater on this application to update. This morning, the Mac wouldn't boot. After several attempts I used the old DVD with Mac OS X to re-install and boot. That worked.
Following this approach, I received two messages (that HP apps weren't secured or something and therefor disabled). Than I updated the Mac OS X and later this evening it asked me if I wanted to install some (4) other updates as well (don't know what updates these were). So I updated but now I am back at square one: My Mac doesn't boot. I do get the grey starting screen, but now even the 'apple' logo is missing.
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Here's a link that might help with the grey screen problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
Which app did you download?
If you can get booted up, check in the System Profiler to see that all of your RAM is recognized--if not, you may need to reseat one or both sticks.
If you can boot from your install disc, run the extended version of the Apple Hardware test to check for hardware problems. Freezing can be caused by a dying hard drive, which can also tend to corrupt software.
While booted from the install disc, navigate to Disk Utility and repair your boot disk. You can do this 2 or 3 times even if it says no problems found.
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It probably wouldn't hurt to reinstall the OS.
Do you have a good, up to date backup? If not, it would be a good idea to make one as soon as you can, just to be on the safe side.
Have you tried a Safe Boot?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564
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