How do I determine how much RAM I have, and how do I configure it? Somtimes I'll have to hard reboot several times in an hour. Other times it runs well for a day or two.
Bluetooth people! Bluetooth! ! Am I the only one interested in knowing about Leopard's Bluetooth capabilities? !
1. Apple Menu>About This Mac 2. Click More Info... 3. Click Memory (which might be hidden under Hardware) 4. tell me the sizes it lists. Also, try the suggestion at the macrumors link.
That's one heck of a setting to leave off... OTOH, it also turns off all services listening on any ports, so the damage is mitigated somewhat. The original ZDNet article is almost completely wrong though, as they apparently don't know how to read nmap's output properly; they think "open|filtered" means open, when in fact it means the port scanner can't tell whether the port is open or filtered (ie. nothing's there to respond to requests at that port, or it's filtered)
It says: BANK 0/DIMMO 1GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz BANK 1/DIMM1 1GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz (Been crashing a lot today)
Too bad my phone doesn't support it :S Though TBH I wouldn't want to walk around in those goofy headphones anyway.
My Samsung Sync does support it and now I use it as an MP3 player instead of my iPod. Just more convenient. And now I'm glad I'll finally able to make my iBook completely wireless with a bluetooth mouse AND bluetooth headphones.
Take out one of the DIMMs. If the problem doesn't go away, swap them (note that you should always make sure a single DIMM is in the lower slot, as putting a single DIMM in the upper slot can be dangerous to the machine if you push too hard). If the problem goes away, it's a bad DIMM. Also, there were some reports of early production run MacBook Pros having had WAY too much thermal paste applied to the processor. Does the machine get extraordinarily hot? And if the RAM checks out and the machine isn't overheating, I'd wager you had a bad motherboard. The way to check if it's a software problem is to boot from a clean install of the OS on an external HD.
If it isn't too much bother, can you explain how to take out one of the DIMMs or more them around? If the motherboard is bad, is that repairable?
If it isn't too much bother, can you explain how to take out one of the DIMMs or move them around? If the motherboard is bad, is that repairable?
Take out the battery, and remove the 3 #0 Philips head screws that are then exposed. The RAM is underneath. Spread the metal clips, and the RAM should pop up.
I just upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (Pwerbook G4). Now it starts up, shows the desktop, the dock, and the status bar, and maybe even the window showing the install dvd, but then I get the grey screen of death. I've rebooted a whole bunch of times, and it quits in a different place. Sometimes the dock icons for the auto-startup programs even start to bounce, but to no avail. I am le sad :'( EDIT: O, and I ran repair disk off the DVD. No dice. Kernel Panics caused by: SystemUIServer smbclient configd EDIT: I was able to log in fully! In safe mode, that is. We'll see if removing startup items fixes the problem . . . so far . . . EDIT: I removed all the startup items, re-logged in fine, and then started putting them back. Looks like Little Snitch doesn't make the cut.
You folks that were having trouble, I assume you were doing upgrades, not clean installs, right? Always ill-advised in my book.
