10-08-2006, 01:15 AM
Thanks again, guys. I feel about computers the way my grandpa felt about cars: even if I don't know how to fix them, it is fun to try. My kids are 5 and 7 and I want to stay ahead of them as long as possible. The iMac G5 is really beautiful on the inside and a joy to open up compared to any other computer I have seen.
I swapped the ram chips, and although I think it booted the first time, after I closed it up I couldn't get the computer to boot with the OWC chip in the first slot, and when I finally booted off the hardware test cd, that obviously found a problem with the ram in mem 1. I am going to run memtest again for a long time and see if that confirms something (now that I printed the instruction and realize I should run it in single user mode). The ram should be under warranty (and is the only thing still under warranty on this iMac).
I swapped the ram chips, and although I think it booted the first time, after I closed it up I couldn't get the computer to boot with the OWC chip in the first slot, and when I finally booted off the hardware test cd, that obviously found a problem with the ram in mem 1. I am going to run memtest again for a long time and see if that confirms something (now that I printed the instruction and realize I should run it in single user mode). The ram should be under warranty (and is the only thing still under warranty on this iMac).