All fixed - it was bad RAM.

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Post #231,476

by Meerkat

10/29/05 6:10:33 AM

All fixed - it was bad RAM.

Weird - never seen RAM do that before - that is, actually die while the system was up.

Found out it was the RAM by connecting an old IDE drive with (by chance) Win98 on it. It wouldn't boot with it , just whinged about Divide by Zero errors. But I then booted it up in safe mode, and it said it couldn't load the XMS memory driver... due to dodgy RAM.

As luck would have it, my PC uses the same RAM as the Mac Mini, so I swapped out the 512 stick from the PC, and put in the 256 that originally came with my Mac Mini. Lo and behold, it boots happily and all's well. (Except for it living on 256 MB RAM til I get some more...)

Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.

Nothing but blue screens troubling me.. - (Meerkat) - (8) - Oct. 23, 2005, 05:51:10 PM EDT

Does it boot in safe mode? If not . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 23, 2005, 06:08:11 PM EDT

Have tried Repair several times w/ W2K - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 28, 2005, 06:24:07 PM EDT

Had it work about 20% of the time . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 28, 2005, 06:54:01 PM EDT

Sounds a little like this thread... - (Another Scott) - Oct. 23, 2005, 07:03:10 PM EDT

Verify no hardware issues and reinstall - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 23, 2005, 08:25:09 PM EDT

That stop error almost always points to hardware/drivers - (Silverlock) - (1) - Oct. 24, 2005, 03:27:32 PM EDT

Thanks for all the advice so far. - (Meerkat) - Oct. 24, 2005, 05:08:44 PM EDT

All fixed - it was bad RAM. - (Meerkat) - Oct. 29, 2005, 06:10:33 AM EDT

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