eMac randomly Freezing

[JamieB]

Hi, I'm new here.

My eMac has been spontaneously freezing for now apparent reason and 2 people have told me that my ram could be faulty and so far I've tried everything else to fix it but nothing has worked. For example I have tryed to reset the ram, I have done a clean install of OSX and then I wiped the HD and installed everything from scratch yet its still happening.

If this helps, when I try to play a game or even when in firefox or msn, the application will start breaking up, there will be like little flashes all over it before it crashes. Its hard to explain. Other times though I will just be like closing a window or moving my mouse through the dock and it will suddenly freeze.

Any help is much appriciated.

P.S. This http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/par...DULE=CT6464Z335 is the Ram I was planning on getting for my eMac G4 1.25ghz. Will it working?

[Knightslugger]

Hi, I'm new here.

My eMac has been spontaneously freezing for now apparent reason and 2 people have told me that my ram could be faulty and so far I've tried everything else to fix it but nothing has worked. For example I have tryed to reset the ram, I have done a clean install of OSX and then I wiped the HD and installed everything from scratch yet its still happening.

If this helps, when I try to play a game or even when in firefox or msn, the application will start breaking up, there will be like little flashes all over it before it crashes. Its hard to explain. Other times though I will just be like closing a window or moving my mouse through the dock and it will suddenly freeze.

Any help is much appriciated.

P.S. This http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/par...DULE=CT6464Z335 is the Ram I was planning on getting for my eMac G4 1.25ghz. Will it working?

will it work?  not sure.  i get a 404 on that link.

when you reset the RAM, you're not actually resetting the RAM sticks, your reseting the PRAM, a seperate storage of information not related to the Main RAM.

do you have two sticks of RAM installed?

[JamieB]

No, just the 1 stock stick. I'm pretty sure that the linked ram will work so you dont have to worry about that.

The main thing is do you think I deffinatly need to rush out and replace it? Do you think the Ram is causing the problem?

Thanks.

[Knightslugger]

i had a simmilar problem with the ram in my powerbook a while back and it was traced back to horrible ram.  my problem was that Airport refuesd to work, and something else... i think random kernal panics or somethign of that nature.  replaced the bad ram and poof, problem solved.  they also had to replace the logic board and Ariport card and cage becasue the horrible ram shorted out most of the primarty interface systems...    Apple fixed it, that's all i cared about.

I'd say that the RAM is the culprit.  Ram is cheap.  at least you don't need to replace the Logic board...!

[JamieB]

Thanks.

[illitrate23]

yeah, i had the same problem with my powerbook - after i'd opened the whole thing up myself and replaced the hard drive, figuring it was that which caused the problem (the freezes i was getting were all on data loads)
although, i couldn't swear that i didn't perhaps shaft the ram when i first opened up the powerbook as i was curious and poking around at everything

[Konflict]

I've heard reports of incompatibility issues with third party RAM. However, these issues were with the Macs around 2-3 years ago, I haven't heard much since then.

How old is your eMac?

If the eMac is around two or three years old, then there's a good chance that the RAM is the cause of the problem.

[JamieB]

Must be about 2 years old now... maybe lol.

I'm getting word that the problem might be with the logic board now .

[danae]

Did you get Applecare?
Take it to an Apple Store[/i] and have the people who do it for a living figure it out.  RAM or logic board, they can take care of it for you free if you picked up that handy dandy little red box...