[chenyichung]

Hey guys,

just a coupla questions for 12" 1.2GHz iBook owners, wanna make sure my iBook is up to par speed wise. I added a stick of KINGMAX 512mb RAM from newegg.

Ok, how many times does that circle thingy under the apple sign rotate when booting up?
Does the umbrella thingy pop up for a second after you log in?

How often does the umbrella come up when just typing a paper on word or working on excel sheet? I had both excel and word open the other night switching back and forth, and all of the sudden, the umbrella thing came up as if my iBook was working really hard, but i was just typing a paper.

I would think umbrella wouldn't pop up that much with 768mb RAM, but i've seen it a coupla times, especially since i did a few updates. Is everything normal with my iBook?

-Yi Chen

[Big-J-Dubb]

Sounds like your ram is dying you should send it back get a refund or replacment.

[Big Mac]

If your system is unusually sluggish after installing RAM you can be relatively certain that the RAM is defective. And, for reference, the cursor that you are referring to as an umbrella is technically referred to as the spinning wait cursor, while it is commonly called a spinning beachball or pizza. You'll often see the abbreviations SBoD or SPoD for Spinning Beachball of Death/Spinning Pizza of Death.

[sminch]

yip, no way should you be seeing it that much - i have an extra 512 as well and i pretty much never see it, and certainly not when just doing some word processing / spreadsheeting. get that stick checked out.

sminch

[chenyichung]

any programs i can use to check if my memory is ok?

-Yi Chen

[ccsccs7]

TechTool Pro or your System Check CD (boot up from it and check your RAM).

[chenyichung]

cool, thanks!