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Reinstalling 10.4 after faulty RAM removal - advice?
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After installing Tiger last week, many of my apps (widgets, appliactions, even the finder) began crashing regularly, and I suffered 3 kernel panics, as well as one freeze. After running memtestosx.com's software, I've found that my poor iMac is running on 2GB of very faulty RAM.
When I originally installed Tiger last Friday, I performed an "Archive and Install" and preserved user settings. Now that I must reinstall Tiger once my new Samsung RAM arrives tomrorrow (to get rid of all the bugs my old RAM put into the suystem), do I need to redo the "Arvice and Install" option or can I simply do an "Upgrade" to fix the OS's many troubles?
Thanks for your advice and help...
-Brian
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15" MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz/320GB/2GB RAM
iPod classic (160 GB)
iPod nano (4 GB)
iPod shuffle (1 GB)
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I would be surprised if you needed to do anything other than replace the faulty RAM.
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15" MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz/320GB/2GB RAM
iPod classic (160 GB)
iPod nano (4 GB)
iPod shuffle (1 GB)
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That would be great if that's all I had to do. However, the skicky thread at the top of the forum leads me to believe that this bad RAM has corrupted all installations that occured after I installed it (including when I installed 10.4):
Bad RAM is very common. If most of your programs are crashing unexpectedly, or you are getting a lot of kernel panics, suspect bad RAM. Keep in mind that reinstalling the OS or any software while the bad RAM is in will result in a corrupt copy on your hard drive. So, after removing bad RAM, you will likely need to reinstall software. What commonly happens is that one day, the RAM stops functioning properly, but the computer keeps running. The user notices a few programs quitting here and there, but doesn't know what is causing it. At some point, a new upgrade to OS X comes out. The update is installed. Since every step of the upgrade goes through RAM, the upgrade corrupts a previously good file. At this point, the user posts a message on forums.macnn.com saying "10.x.y hosed my machine! Beware!"
This senario is exactly what is going on with me (except I'm not skeptical of Tiger, just my bad RAM).
Any other suggestions on whether I should do an Upgrade, Archive/Install (again), or just do nothing after replacing the RAM?
Thanks,
Brian
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15" MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz/320GB/2GB RAM
iPod classic (160 GB)
iPod nano (4 GB)
iPod shuffle (1 GB)
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I had a bad stick of RAM in an iBook 300MHz. I installed Jaguar and started getting multiple kernal panics. Eventually the system refused to boot. At the time I didn't realize that the RAM was bad. I reinstalled the OS. The same things started happening. I replaced the RAM but the system maintained a steady flow of kernal panics. After a reinstall of the OS it ran perfect.
If it where me I would reinstall the OS. An Archive and Install might be all you need to do. Doing that now might be what saves you from a lot of heartache later.
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