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I upgraded my RAM and MBP goes Pfffftt!!!
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Long story short: I'd upgraded from stock ram to 2 gigs of mushkin ram from newegg. Things went well for about 4 hours then I started having kernel panics every hour or so. Returned that ram and got some ram from crucial. When that got to the house I installed that and my MBP wouldn't come on. It made the noise like it would come on but I never got the "Apple Chime" and my screen never came on. Currently my MBP is at a local Apple store.  
Interesting side notes: Apple Genius installed Apple ram and the computer still didn't respond. Also, my brother who has a blacbook installed 2gigs of ram and his computer did the same thing. We're currently taking his computer to the same Apple store.  
I didn't know if anyone had ever heard of this or expirenced this themselves. Thanks for any insight.
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It's possible that when you installed the RAM, you used too much force and damaged the logic board.
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*sigh* Not what I wanted to hear.
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Originally Posted by Rumor 
It's possible that when you installed the RAM, you used too much force and damaged the logic board.
Unlikely. MBPs actually require a fair bit of force to get the RAM in. Besides, destroying both memory slots would take some doing.
Static discharge is also possible, though also unlikely.
I assume the OP has tried the original factory RAM in all possible combinations of slots? And done a PMU/SMC reset?
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Originally Posted by mfbernstein
I assume the OP has tried the original factory RAM in all possible combinations of slots? And done a PMU/SMC reset?
well, he did say the apple geiuns installed genuine apple ram to no effect
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Apple is running a SCAM on RAM!!! There is no such thing as "genuine apple RAM" - apple does not manufacture RAM and apple branded RAM does not exist in reality.
Apple uses third party RAM in their computers and charges a premium price for it as well, usually Samsung brand.
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