[shamelri]

Thru endless reading of very helpful posts here and elsewhere I narrowed one of my problems down to bad ram. My 12" powerbook 867mhz? w/superdrive just got stuck on the apple and spinning thing. I tried command s and ran fsck -y and it says it repairs disc structure i think? So I pop in my apple hardware check disc and it wont run because of memory problem (I wish I would have written everything down). So I took out the removeable 128megs of ram and now I can run the hardware check disc. It says everything is fine.


My question is can my powerbook boot up with 128megs instead of 256 because it is still stuck at that apple logo

Thanks

PS I have more ram coming and thinking about buying diskwarrior

[chris v]

128 is the required minimum for OS X so it should boot. Something else has gone wrong, probably as a result of the bad RAM. If Disk Warrior doesn't straighten it out, the next best choice is an archive and install, preserving users and applications.

[shamelri]

Diskwarrior has been running now for 15 hrs. I don't think it is fixing anything It has been rebuilding directory structures.

Do I do an archive and install from my mac os disc? When I boot to the mac disc it says continue to install in English and I get freaked out and shut it down

All I need to save with an external hd is my iphoto folder. I never backed it up and my Wife is getting nutty

Thanks

Originally posted by chris v:
128 is the required minimum for OS X so it should boot. Something else has gone wrong, probably as a result of the bad RAM. If Disk Warrior doesn't straighten it out, the next best choice is an archive and install, preserving users and applications.