Hi,

I have a 15" 800 MZ flat panel iMac, the kind with a round base. I recently
purchased a 512MB RAM chip online and installed it in the easily accessible
memory slot. Piece of cake, right?

Except that when I turned the machine on, all I got were three beeps, a dark
screen, and a blinking powerlight in the lower right side of the display.
That's it.

I tried taking it out and reinstalling it. Same thing. Tech support at
4allmemory suggested I download and upgrade the system firmware. Only after
spending over an hour on the Apple website did I determine that there was no
applicable firmware to update. So 4allmemory determined that the chip was
bad, and they sent me another one.

Only guess what: the second chip does the same thing. It should be the right
one, SDRAM PC133 (Lower Slot).

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Jim

On 3/31/05 9:16 PM, in article BE71FCBF.922%jsibleywebster@mindspring.com,
"Jim Webster" <jsibleywebster@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a 15" 800 MZ flat panel iMac, the kind with a round base. I recently
> purchased a 512MB RAM chip online and installed it in the easily accessible
> memory slot. Piece of cake, right?
>
> Except that when I turned the machine on, all I got were three beeps, a dark
> screen, and a blinking powerlight in the lower right side of the display.
> That's it.
>
> I tried taking it out and reinstalling it. Same thing. Tech support at
> 4allmemory suggested I download and upgrade the system firmware. Only after
> spending over an hour on the Apple website did I determine that there was no
> applicable firmware to update. So 4allmemory determined that the chip was
> bad, and they sent me another one.
>
> Only guess what: the second chip does the same thing. It should be the right
> one, SDRAM PC133 (Lower Slot).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim
>

Send it back for refund and try a different make. I've had very good luck
with www.ramjet.com.

Usual disclaimers apply.
--
Brian Ehni

Brian Paul Ehni <behni@comcast.net> writes:
>
> Send it back for refund and try a different make. I've had very good luck
> with www.ramjet.com.

Ditto. I always buy Micron memory. Either from a local distributor or
from their official web-distributor, Crucial. (http://www.crucial.com/)

If you buy from Crucial, be sure to use their system-selector form to
buy the specific part number that's matched for your Mac. Even though
you may get the same module as the generic part number, their
compatibility guarantee doesn't apply if you don't order it using the
system-specific part number.

-- David