Kernel Panic 4MEM/1/40000000: 0x7bb1a790

Question

Hello,
My computer is an Intel Imac that is about 6 months old.
Over the last several weeks my Intel Imac has been experiencing problems. It started with a few programs closing unexpectingly every other day. It climaxed the other day with programs crashes right after opening and finally kernel panics (the black screen that comes over the screen with all the different languages saying to restart the computer).
I ran the Hardware Test and got the error message:
4MEM/1/40000000: 0x7bb1a790
I can't even start my computer without it going to the black screen after 30 seconds.
After researching this it seems I have some sort of hardware problem that is pretty serious. I was wondering if anybody knows the specifics of this particular error message I recieved. Can factory RAM just malfuction out of nowhere?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time,
Pug
Imac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

It's a bad RAM error. You need to take the computer to an Apple service center to either repair the computer or replace defective RAM.
Any RAM can malfunction out of nowhere. However, the error may not be due to defective RAM. It could also be due to other hardware failure on the logic board such as the memory controller.
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