Failing RAM and Memtest86
I had a feeling it would be a matter of time until the spontaneous restarts and error messages would show up in Build #2 with the bulk type VT RAM.I already suspect the RAM anyway as I feel it is the weakest part of my system.What I had a hard time deciphering was the Readme of the Memtest86.What or how many errors do I need to actually decide the RAM is bad.I can easily swap my Mushkin to see if same problems exist, which I will do in a few minutes anyway. Was playing Halo when I experienced a restart.As of right now, while only running 13:21 minutes on Test #6 I currently have 1,997 errors.Are these the numbers I need to determine whether or not the RAM is bad? This is my first time using Memtest86. Thanks tbt
I was really in a lousy mood earlier over this. I have been pricing RAM and, just before the holidays,I can't justify the cost.
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2. The application (Terminal) is allocated memory that you are exceeding
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Strange New Error Since RAM and HD Upgrade
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When I attempt to publish an Apple .IPA file via Adobe AIR I get this wall of errors. It does not happen every time but when it does it takes many restarts to get it to publish. Any ideas?Ah thanks for clarifying 64bit to 64bit upgrade.
When you say blue screen (BSOD) the first thing that always comes to mind is memory issues. It doesn't even matter if you buy the same brand/model/size sticks, they can conflict with each other and blue screen you. The only way to avoid this is typically buy only matched sets (the manufacturer guarantees the RAM was tested together and is packaged together). That doesn't mean buying 2 separate paired sets is the same, they can conflict with each other.
One easy way that just takes patience is to use the good old Prime95 test. I recommend you download it and let it run for at least an hour on the torture test. It will attempt to make your RAM create a mistake, blue screen you, etc. If it does, you may have a RAM issue. I say "may" because it will test your processor, FSB and RAM all together. If it does make a blue screen, try removing all but one module of RAM and test again. If that passes, pair it up and try again. Eventually you will find the RAM combo that is failing if that's the issue.
You can get Prime95 here:
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/ (direct link)
Don't sign up for GIMPS (unless you want to), just use the software for the testing purpose.
Lastly many modern motherboards support memtest86 directly in the BIOS menu (press delete, F1 or whatever your motherboard mentioned at PC startup). See if it's in the advanced or troubleshooting menus. That is the industry standard way to test RAM but it's not as easy as Prime95. If you don't have memtest86 in the menu you can download it here:
http://download.cnet.com/Memtest86/3000-2086_4-10524193.html
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Therefore, under duress during testing - with 1 stick or 3 sticks of ram, all tests perfect and passes all stability tests, good marks in Sandra, plays any game. With 2 or 4 sticks of ram, very unstable won't stay up but for seconds.
Any ideas? (Tested 7 ways until Sunday!)
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"This comes inside SP1 for vista 64, as noted with my other system during the build. "
Better double check it.
Install all four memory sticks and do a memory check with >>Memtest86<< 1st, ensure that no error(s) will comes during testing.
Also how about that?:
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Remove your OC then see how its goes.
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I have a 2009 Macbook Pro with 1T hdd 8GB Ram and ran Maverick without problem...Yosemite installation has me completely frozen, nothing works but the spinning ball...I had to force shutdown last night, and haven't turned it on again...what do you advise? During installation emptied cache, etc. Backed up using time machine, fortunately.
Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
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Windows 8 64-bit, failed installations and RAID 1 resync on HP ENVY h8-1520z
I recently purchased an HP Envy h8-1520z with a single SSD and 8 GB RAM running Windows 8 Pro 64-bit. I installed 2 Western Digital 500 GB WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 HDDs on SATA ports 5 & 6 and configured them as RAID 1 in the BIOS. I have started installing apps on the RAID 1 array (E since the SSD is only 256 GB.
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Did you check each hard drive for straps? There should not be any straps installed on the hard drive. These drives do have strapping posts.
Did you use the AMD RaidExpert to create the array volume? Did you wait until the RAID migration was complete before using the array volume?
Check the AMD RaidExpert for errors. It's possible that you have a bad hard drive(s).
Many applications want to be installed on the C drive. Your SSD is 256GB so you should have plenty of space for most applications and the application performance will be improved. Use the RAID 1 array to keep and store your data. The mirroring process of RAID 1 will protect it in case one hard drive fails.
You might want to consider removing all of the data etx.. from the array, use the AMD RAIDExpert to delete out the array volume. I would then run for hard drive diagnostics. If the hard drives are free from errors then use disk management to separately reformat each hard drive. Now go back to the AMD RaidExpert and create your new array volume.
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HELP! Is my 'new' CPU failing me and causing KP's?
I hope I can make this as succinct as it needs to be. I have a MacPro 1,1, and have maxed out my RAM (2 ys ago) with 16GB Crucial RAM, and recently swapped my twin-dual-core processors for a pair of Xeon X5355's. I also had an issue where on of the wires on the lower Molex connector to the lower Super Drive arced, taking out both SD's. Rather than chase down that issue, I went to an external USB-connected SuperDrive. I'm also running OSX 10.6.8, and have run both Cocktail and Disk Utility to chase down an issue which has only just appeared.
The most recent 'mod' was swapping the CPU cores two weeks back, followed a week ago by adding the external Super Drive. Since that, when I've come back to my computer after a break, the computer is running, but the screens are dark and won't come back to life. I have to manually shut down and restart the system to get it running again. This has happened three times now; I ran both Cocktail and DU before the last Kernel Panic.
I'm no spark-chaser; I had an IT buddy of mine do the CPU swap for me, as I'm disabled anyway. From what I can understand, does the information below mean the cause of the KP's causing the "shutdown" described earlier is one or both of the CPU's? According to what I can read elsewhere, they're both operating just fine....I'm hoping it might just be something simple, like a firmware fix or something that one of a simple mind (moi) can wrap his elderly head around. (If it is the CPU's, I guess that's what happens with used CPUs...)
Anyway, if you can answer me here, I'd be more than grateful and indebted.
Sincerely
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Error Message Text Follows:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: -1210319 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 4
Anonymous UUID: EB86BB3C-E501-49E0-832B-7CB852F735D2
Wed Oct 1 09:27:47 2014
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x28fc2e): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0xc0, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/i386/pmap.c:3572
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x7ec139f8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x7ec13a2c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x7ec13a48 : 0x28fc2e (0x59a47c 0xc0 0x0 0x0)
0x7ec13ab8 : 0x292d36 (0x84b7a0 0x7e40c000 0x0 0x259978)
0x7ec13b68 : 0x26c3de (0x457101 0x0 0x7ec13be8 0x3)
0x7ec13c08 : 0x26157b (0x297bf68c 0x0 0x0 0x10000)
0x7ec13d38 : 0x262bdb (0x7e41c000 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x7ec13e28 : 0x20f9cc (0x2621c2c 0x7e40c000 0x0 0x10000)
0x7ec13e88 : 0x210345 (0x2ea15c8c 0x2ea15c8c 0x1 0x7ec13ed8)
0x7ec13ef8 : 0x216f53 (0x2ea15c00 0x165cbc94 0x17351668 0x0)
0x7ec13f78 : 0x295c57 (0x18a4a968 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x7ec13fc8 : 0x2a256d (0x18a4a964 0x0 0x10 0x18745824)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: ClamXavSentry
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
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<Email Edited by Host>This is getting confusinger and confusinger...I've had to reset my password 3 times and "like" the answer to reply...that doesn't seem right. Oh, well. An update:
In an effort to isolate the problem without SB, I looked through my Preferences and noticed my discs turned off after several hours. I set all controls to 'never'. Also (and just to complicate things), I suspended my ongoing DVD recordings overnight; I figured between the two, one of them would trigger it.
No problems this morning! I'm thinking the KP occurred when the discs shut down (and therefore wouldn't re-awake when I moved the mouse or hit a key). The only other possibility I can wrap my head around is the DVD recorder is taking so long (Toast 10 Titanium) that it might've triggered the KP, as I'd routinely leave the computer while it was burning a disc (I do a lot of this for my wife's classes - she's a high school & college teacher). Next I will try to burn a disk and see if nothing happens---surely, the fault must lie between the two, no?
Heck, the only other solution is to sacrifice my Petroliana collection or my '68 Impala (no motor) in order to buy a new MP....which I don't WANT to do.... Anyway, thanks for helping walk me though this...I'll most definitely keep y'all updated as and when anything new happens.
Cheers,
the chuckster -
How to test RAM and HDD (Hard Drive).
Introduction
HP machines have built-in Bios testers for RAM and HDD's.
To use them you need to enter Bios by pressing F10 on startup. They are placed under ' Diagnostics menu '.
Why I wrote this guide and complicate whole situation?
There are three reasons:
This testers are not so great and sometimes they do not detect problems which you may have with your hardware. It's recommended to use more advanced tester for RAM and manufacter diagnostic programs to test HDD's.
Not always you will be able to enter Bios. Sometimes corrupted hardware is blocking possibility to run it.
Advanced diagnostic softwares for hard drives allow to fix some problems.
Table of Contents:
A How to test RAM with Memtest86+.
B How to test HDD (Hard Drive).
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There are few possibilities to run this program. In this guide I will present how to run it from:
CD
and
USB Flash Drive.
First we need to burn Memtest86+ on a CD or prepare properly USB Flash drive with a special tool.
Here you will find Memtest86+ home page from which you will be able to download correct version of this software.
Solution 1. CD:
Download ' Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip) ' and extract it with 7-Zip(free) or WinRar.
Download CDBurnerXP from here. Install this program and run it.
Choose ' Browse ISO image '.
and point Memtest86+ iso file.
Click ' Burn disc '.
Wait until burning process will finish.
Choose ' OK '.
Exit from program.
Solution 2. USB Flash Drive:
Download ' Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7) ' and extract it with 7-Zip(free) or WinRar.
Connect USB Flash Drive to one of USB ports. Run ' Memtest86+ 4.10 USB Installer '.
Click ' I Agree '.
Select USB Flash Drive and check box to format it.
Caution!
Format process will erase all information from USB Flash Drive. If you have there something important then please backup this data first.
Choose ' Create '.
Wait until process will finish and click ' Next '.
Exit from program by choosing ' Finish '.
How to run Memtest86+.
Leave USB Flash drive in USB port or CD in CD/DVD drive. Restart your system and on startup press F9 key repetitively:
After this step you will be able to select from which device you want to boot. Choose from the list ' USB Hard Drive ' if you have prepared USB Flash Drive (like on below photo) or ' Optical Disk Drive ' if you have prepared CD:
How to use Memtest86+ to test RAM?
Do at least 2 - 3 passes. In Errors column may show up only 0. If it's other number then you need to replace corrupted RAM stick.
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MSI Z87 MPower Max - Bad board? Failed SATA and B2 problems????
So here's the thing, been having problems with my system, I have a SSD as the boot drive and a RAID 5 array using the intel controller as a Data drive. It started infrequently that occassionally the system would lock up with the HDD LED on solid, Then it became progressively more and more frequently while troubleshooting.
I started out thinking it was the RAID array since after it freezes it would reboot do a verification and find some errors, so I disabled the array and tried running the WD lifeguard on each drive, each one passed a full disk scan. I tried booting the system with 1 or the 3 drives unplugged, still froze so cycled through each drive, froze each time.
Started suspecting the SSD so I cloned the drive onto a mechanical hard drive, still froze.
Unplugged the entire array and just ran the HDD alone..... didn't freeze as frequently but would still freeze.
Swapped out the RAM with good ram... Still froze.
Swapped power supplies with a good supply... Still froze.
Removed all the components except the boot drive, the RAM and the CPU..... stopped freeze up completely, instead I would get microstutters where the system would freeze for .25 to .5 seconds then continue, could tell if you played a audio stream it would keep repeating (Even a buffered stream) did a latency test and interupts were flying like mad and taking a long time to process, with no specific driver or process assigned.
Plugged the RAID array back in and it was working with the microstuttering, while trying to backup data off the array it froze again.
Rebooted the system, bios would die at B2
unplugged the RAID drives, cleared the cmos the system would boot.
Plug back in the raid drives , clear the cmos and it dies at B2.
Took out a hardware RAID controller (LSI 9260) and connected the drives up to that, dies at B2
unplug the controller... Bios boots
Plug in the controller with no drives attached, dies at B2.
Take the controller out, bios boots.
Sometimes the system gets to A2 and the screen shows snowy static
What is also strange is this occurs on both bios's.... the primary bios which I have flashed to 1.5 and the backup bios which I had left at 1.1 as a fail safe and never flashed.
Thoughts?Hi
Almost same story happened to me.
I have now 2 pieces of Z87 MPOWER boards and both have the same issues.
1. Board came with BIOS 1.5. I left BIOS B to 1.5 and flashed BIOS A to 1.7 with MFLASH method. I installed W8.1 on my onto my SAMSUNG SSD and the PC was working for 2 or 3 days.
Then I noticed strange behavior while booting. The SSD was not found sometimes. I hit F11 and the list was full of USB pen drive entries. Then I entered the BIOS and I have seen only two menu entries: Security and one more I don't remember. Inside of the menu items it was empty or some chinese letters. So I thought the Bios was currupted. Due to missing MFLASH menu I couldn't flash the bios via MFLASH, so I had to study the German MSI Forum. Then I prepared the USB pendrive with ABUDE method and I brought back BIOS A alive. Fine, I thought: It can happen but it shouldn't. But the boot problems came back....
2. The second board came and had BIOS 1.4 installed and I didn't touch board #1 anymore . So I flashed BIOS A again to 1.7 and you know already what's coming up. Totally the same story which I had with board #1.
I switched back to BIOS B and no problems at all with booting.
After a while I noticed some BSODs because of Killer EThernet driver (bwcW8x64.sys). I had so serious problems with that driver. The problem is: If the driver fails, you are even unable to go to the internet and look for a new driver, because your ethernet is dead. Very funny, but not for me. I got the drivers from antother PC and I tried to install them. During installation it was fine. The card was working, but I was forced to do a reboot. After the reboot, the ethernet card was disabled because windows coudn't load the driver. OK, that's a windows issue or a poor driver. I tried several times. No chance to get ethernet back alive. Finally I disabled the Killer Ethernetboad and plugged my former Intel Gigabit ET Dual Port Sever Adapter in. I thought, now I get rid of all the problems. Ha ha...
First was everything fine. Then the PC didn't want to boot anymore: BIOS message --> B2.
I hit del key: "Entering setup" message came up. Nothing more. Several times. Dead.
I plugged out the Intel ethernetboard. Bios came up. I put the ethernet board to another PCI slot. 2 days of working. later on, same story.
Then I switched back to BIOS B and no problems at all.
So what's up here with my 2 MPOWER boards, showing the same issues with BIOS 1.7? What I did wrong?
- MFLASH? May be. But I don't use it anymore. I use the MSIHQ USB Flashing Tool from this forum now which was also spread in the German forum.
- I never flashed BIOS beta versions, I always red articals how to flash and I think I did nothing wrong here.
- Overclocking? No. Unfortunatelly I bought an Intel i4770 CPU without K. Funny. So no overclock issues at all.
- Memory? I have fully equipped 32GB (G.Skill F3-2400C10Q-32GTX) and did the MEM86+ test successfully.
Day before yesterday I flashed BIOS 1.6 to BIOS A. All looks good until now. The intel ethernet board behaves well. No B2 messages.
I will further comment as soon there is anything new.
Do we have some issues with BIOS 1.7? I strongly belief....
I have seen BIOS V1.81 beta is out. But where is V1.8 official release? Anyway, I am tired of testing. If I do not have issues with 1.6 then I will use it.
Unfortunately the MSI Z87 MPOWER board is not yet widely spread. Otherwise we would have more user experiences.
Ok, any comments are highly appreciate it.
@ Corellon: Sometime I got A2 messages with black screen with BIOS V1.7
Which bios version had you installed when you experienced severe problems?
I guess V1.5 & V1.6 are save. 1.7 has got problems. -
Upgrade questions - Ram and HD
Considering adding some ram and a new HD to my MacBook.
It's a late 2008 Unibody, 2.4 GHz.
I currently have 4GB of Ram and a 250GB HD, which I believe spins at 5400 rpm (how do I check that?).
My understanding is that this machine can take 6GB of ram. I'm assuming I can just buy one 4GB stick and replace the 2GB stick with it, correct? If so, where should I buy it from and what should I be looking for? Also, what performance increase can I expect - specifically in Photoshop CS5 and LR3?
Will getting a faster spinning drive increase performance as well (for PS and LR)? If so, what should I be looking for there?
Thanks for any/all help.To find out about your hard drive open System Profiler to find the make and model of the drive then go to the manufacturer's site to find specifications for the particular model.
Adding more RAM will not make the computer perform faster. It simply allows you to run more applications concurrently or provides more RAM to running applications. If you are now running out of RAM then adding more will help. If you aren't running out of RAM, then adding more simply lets you run more applications concurrently. To add more RAM to reach the 6 GB limit you will need one 4 GB module and one 2 GB module. Look in the user manual for information on the specific type of RAM you need. Most likely PC-5300 667 MHz SDRAM 200-pin, but check your manual. Sources of RAM I recommend are Data Mem and OWC.
Getting a faster and/or larger hard drive will improve the performance of data access and may improve boot time. An excellent replacement would be a Seagate X500 which is a 7200 RPM Hybrid drive having 500 GBs of storage plus 4 GBs of SSD memory to improve the drive's performance. It's not as fast as a normal SSD, but it's faster than a standard drive. Cost is around $160.00 on the street. OWC sells a nice bundle of drive, enclosure, tools, and software. You can replace the existing drive then put the old drive in the enclosure so you can boot the computer then partition and format the new drive and clone your old drive to the new one.
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4.Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new internal drive.
Source means the external startup drive. -
RAM and other Q's for MSI k7n2g-ilsr
I had a friend buy this board and he got kingston ram and the kingston ram failed on him so he got CERTified samsung ram and i thought IM not paying :O $150 for 512 RAM. X(
I saw the Article about ram recommendations for this board but im paranoid you could say. I want to buy either cosiar 2 sticks of 256(Model#: CMX256A-2700C2 ) or could i get 2 sticks of 512 coaisar ram (Model#: CMX512-2700C2 ) and I want to be able to use onboard video for a while then pick myself up a radeon 9700 or a 9800 pro and have no conflicts ? PLease email me or post a reply . Oh and is this board come with IDE 100 or 133 ?
THe only thing wrong with this board is that the audio connector is in the way if you wanted to put a pci card in that slot. )
:P BY the way Im upgrading from a kt266 msi motherboard with 512 RAM, Amd 1700 and aN Ati 9000. :PYou can read the specs of this board on MSI's website directly to answer those types of questions...
Reagarding your memory, don't take my post lightly as most ppl have had major problems when buying cheaper memory for this board...it's up to you what direction you want to go in regards to this...have problems or don't...Mushkin is a great buy for it's stability and O/Cing ability if that's what you're into...
Most of the ppl are rolling the dice with any of the nForce2 boards out there right now being that they're new on the market, if you want assured no problems go with something a bit older and that should be cool...
I wouldn't rely on using the onboard video if you plan on gaming...most are having issues with it...
MSI and ATI are working on a known issue with Radeons and this board right now and hopefully will release a new BIOS to fix it soon...only have problems on the 1.3/3.4 ILSR/IL versions tho...
There are other issues regarding this board, do a search on this forum and you'll read for days heheheh
I did like this board when I had it working tho (I haven't tried to fix it yet so...) it was fast and the sound was great!! Overall I like the board, but you can't skrimp on memory costs or PSU cause this board is power hungry..
Cheers!! 8) -
Upgrading RAM and OS System on MacBook.
Hi,
I am after a bit of advice. I currently have a MacBook 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with Mac OS X Version 10.4.11. I am looking to increase the RAM to 2 GB and upgrade to OS Snow Leopard. I was just wondering if it is as simple as buying new RAM and installing it? And can I upgrade from my current OS to Snow Leopard buy just purchasing the disc and installing on my MacBook?Did you buy the 29$-version-upgrade or the Mac OS X Box Set for 129? That's in part what I'm really wondering, because it seems a little silly to me to invest another 129 Euros into a MacBook that's already 4,5 years old. Do all the applications still work? (Stuff like Mail, iTunes and Safari is mainly what I'm wondering about)?
My 10.4.11 is starting to fail me and since all the new software updates (especially Skype is bugging me here) are only 10.5 and above compatible.
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