[ebuddy]

Got kernal panic, ran Hardware test and got above error. I have the 2 factory chipsets in + 2 PNY 256mb chips. 4 total. I look at system profiler and the one labeled J14 appears to be the last of 4 causing the problem right? So, I went back to COMPUSA and got the replacement. Added it. Ran Hardware test and got this error; 2MEM/5/4IMM3/J14. I thought; "there can't be anything wrong with the Apple RAM" so I swapped the two PNY chips thinking if I got an error it should be J11 this time right? Nope. After swapping the two PNY chips top to bottom and bottom to top and ran hardware test it showed; 2MEM/2/4IMM3/J14. Have I been addressing the wrong chip the whole time??? How do I know which chip is which? Is the J14 bay bad? Will not any chip work there???

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Call Apple.

[ebuddy]

I called Apple and they advised I pull both PNY chips and run Hardware Test. It appears I was troubleshooting the proper chip, yet my error renders J14 each time. It's quite possible that bay is bad. I'm running the extended test now and wtg on result. I'll tell ya what, I'm going to be flaming hot if that bay is bad. That's simply too sophisticated a price for such an elementary problem! If I wanted hardware problems like these, I'd have gotten a friggin Dell w/ the extended warranty plan for a third the cost! Wait a minute, it would'nt have OSX. Okay maybe not, maybe I'll get a Bondi iMac!