My mac mini sudenly frozed and won't boot in again.

while i surf the net with safari, safari just close itself and the screen was dim with a message to restart . after i do restart my mac mini it can't log in to os and fail to install new os from cd. i did test hardware and it error 4MEM/1/40000000 . is it because my kingston ram that i just replace 1 month ago? i think it just works....

I am having a similar issue to the original post! However, I have not upgraded my RAM. I've only had my Mac Mini for 2 months. I have the dual 512MB RAM sticks which came with the Mac Mini from Apple. The case has never been opened.
My system won't boot into the Mac OS GUI. I just get dumped to the Darwin prompts. I can't successfully re-install the OS from DVD/CD. I run the Apple Hardware Tests from disk and get "4MEM/1/40000000".
I noticed this when I tried to login to my machine on 6May07.
Does anyone know if the brick and mortar Apple Stores can replace the memory under warranty on the spot? (The closest Apple Store to me is about a 3 hour drive). I hate calling the Apple hotline.
-Mr.g@dgeTT

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