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January 11, 2005
Mac Memory
... lights the corner of my mind. :-)
In a couple of weeks my Apple G4 aluminum powerbook will be a year old. You may recall that I completely destroyed the Apple G4 titanium in December '03 I had with just a bit of iced tea, and that forced me to buy a new one in January '04.
I've got two 512 MB compliant memory chips that I took out of the dead titanium powerbook. I'm not sure if they can be used in the aluminum powerbook or if the chips were damaged at all after the tea spillage. Considering the amount of memory that is sitting there (and how I'm just itching to use it,) it would be a complete waste if it all works and I'm not doing anything with it. However, I'd prefer to eliminate the potential for stupidity here, given my recent history with laptops, so I need some good advice and guidance.
Anyone out there have any brilliant suggestions as to how this can be tested? Do I take the laptop + memory to the Apple Store and see if they can test the chips, or...?? I really don't want to open up the laptop and try it myself for fear of screwing up the innards of the machine. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious, but... *shrug* Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Cindy
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I know nothing about Macs, but how could it hurt by taking it to a Mac technician and asking them? As long as they don't come back with some ridiculous price just for testing, that is.
Brain matter deposited by: Kat on January 11, 2005 3:50 PM
Ashkerly, yawwwwn (I am very tired... on call... no sleep for 48 hours...), one of your memory slots is "user servicable". The other is not.
Option 1: You can open the "user servicable" slot and swap the existing chip with one you want to test. Boot the book and check with system profiler. Repeat as required making sure you don't mix up the correct DIMM with the two test DIMMS.
Option 2: Sell the DIMMS (and the old non-working book) on eBay as spares - just make sure you tell people it was dead.
Option 3: Pack the DIMMS in a static bag and ship them to me and I'll test them for you - I work at an authorised Apple Reseller. Contact me to arrange details.
Brain matter deposited by: Ozguru on January 11, 2005 9:34 PM
Kat - yeah, I certainly don't want to be charged some ridiculous amount of $ for this.
Oz - thank you for the suggestions and offer to send the DIMMS to you. I think you've got more than enough happening these days without me shipping off the DIMMS to Australia; however, I truly appreciate your offer and helpful suggestions!
Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on January 12, 2005 9:15 AM