Mac Resurrection, Teil 5

For now 2 weeks, I'm switching on regularly the powermac to see if everythin is running fine. I start iPhoto and add lots of photos, add lots of music into itunes library, and yes it seems to go well :)

Last monday (12th), I was giving one more chance (I'm really too good) to my 2 PC133 RAM (128 and 256 MB). I really find that 448 MB of RAM is not enough to run Panther smoothly, and adding 384 MB of RAM couldn't be that bad, even if my experience showed my that these RAM didn't work.

(note to myself : I really need to build simpler sentences).

Well.. I opened the powermac removed one 64 MB PC100 RAM and insert the 256 MB PC133 one. And switched on the mac... it booted perfectly !!! I was amazed (and still am). The faulty supposed RAM seemed to worked perfectly.

I play with the mac one long day to see if nothing wrong is happening (So I know the fult is coming from that particular RAM). Nothing bad happened.

Today, I decided to add the second PC133 RAM : the 128 MB. Switched on the Mac... it gave me a nice console error (displayed on the white background where you have the grey apple logo). Looked like a kernel panic, with no mention of the it.

I tried to reboot one more time (yeah, sometimes, rebooting helps).

I don't know why, I had a (bright) idea : switching 2 RAM from their slots.... So did I and replace the 128 MB RAM with the Apple 64 MB RAM. I switched the Mac on again... and it booted normally !!!! Yiipeee :)

The Powermac is running fine for now one full day, running Adium, Skype, Colloquy, iTunes or iPhoto. VLC is runing fine also without telling me the computer is slow. I can look at In Digital, Ask a ninja and Diggnation podcasts without failure :)

Looks like the whole problem at the beginning was only because of the hard disk, and maybe the SCSI Card.