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Sawtooth G4 733 kernal panics and no chime
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kentuckyfried
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Jun 24, 2003, 03:18 AM
 
My computer has stopped playing the starting chime I noticed today, and I've been getting kernal panics out of the blue each time after restarting from the first time it crashed.

The system is a g4 sawtooth, 733 mhz, with 640 MB of ram.

My friend's indicated that that bad memory might be part of the problem as to why computer keeps getting kernal panics.

All I know is, I'm starting to feel like I ended up with a partial lemon (I got this thing pre-owned off of craigslist.com).

The chime typically indicates proper startup...does it mean anything else? Should I try to replace the entire suite of memory, or just get this fixed enough so that it's sellable and get rid of it? I wish the problem were easy to pinpoint and isolate.



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Jun 24, 2003, 07:51 AM
 
Your friend is probably right, that does sound like a ram issue. In order to find out which stick is defective you have to test them separately
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