GarageBand Functionality

Hey everyone, has anyone noticed any odd behavior in GarageBand since Mountain Lion came out? My GB worked very well, then over the last couple of weeks after installing ML, it's running poorly. It'll crash a LOT, I keep getting "Disk is too slow. (Prepare) (-10001)" errors, it hangs up on me, the lead (top) track will randomly blank out controls and I can't do anything with it unless I close GB down and restart. I have a late 2009 24" iMac, with 8GB of RAM. This is highly annoying. I use GarageBand a LOT as I produce many podcasts. Thanks!

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Have a nice day
John Paul Fullerton
[email protected]

(NOTE: I posted this on another thread which appeared to describe the same problem)
I had this problem, and it is now resolved. I got memtest, booted into single user mode and started the test. I realized that it told me I had an amount of memory that was much lower than what I expected (I have 8 GB). I canceled the test and shutdown the machine. I then half ejected each memory module on the side closest to the front (it's a quad g5) and re-seated the modules. I've had this problem once or twice in the past and each time pushing on the modules or re-seating them fixed it. It is a wonder I don't notice losing 2 GB of RAM especially since this machine is used for heavy-duty scientific calculations by me and my research group (I also use it to make podcasts of my lectures, hence GarageBand).
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