Here is a 2 for one, On a Mac Pro 5,1 2.66ghz 6 core Xeon.

My mac pro is developing some strangeness, now when I go to start up the machine in morning it doesnt turn on until I have hit the power button 3 times, sometimes even this doesnt do the trick so I unplug it wait a couple sec and plug back in. So far its always actually started and I am happy for that as I am busy on 2 jobs right now and cannot afford this. Any ideas on what could be happening? This behaviour started probably 2 weeks ago. I have apple care and machine is only about 7 months old...
Second part I recently purchased a memory upgrade kit from Ramjet taking th e system from 12 to 24 gigs, the ram are 6 matched pairs of 4gb and according to the info I have found should be exactly what is needed. 1033mhz ddr3, anyway I istalled it last week during a short lull. after a week I have removed it and replaced my original 12 gigs as the computer was behaving very slowly and when I checked the activity monitor the drive was doing crazy read write activity like i was rendering something or moving big geometry in 3D. This is with nothing but AM skype and safari running. anyway it gets better when I re install my oem ram the computer kept telling me 3 times in a row that I had not put the ram in correctly so I just moved teh chips around until it was happy.
Now when I check activity monitor with original ram I am back to disc activity around 1.4 gig read and 670mb write while its just sitting as oposed to 20+ gb with the ramjet memory.
It seems to be runnning fine now but I am really concerned that there is something fundamentally wrong with this machine now.
Any thoughts or assist greatly appreciated.

Ask Ramjet to take them back, test, and send a new set to test.
When you get new RAM, I actually recommend a quick test with Apple Hardware test at the least. There are also some memory test and performance uttilities worth running. Some run Geekbench (has memory bandwidth) as well as PRIME for OS X.
But you should contact Ramjet. Maybe have them take it back and get Crucial or Kingston (they really do make a difference).
Watch your system more closely, monitor temps as well as use AM.
Maybe your power cord is bad or the wall outlet, or if using a UPS maybe that is not adequate (900W unit?).

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