RAM Failure?

May 31, 2012 at 4:30 pm | No Comments »

The iMac trauma continues. It spontaneously shut down overnight again. I spent a big chunk of the morning trying to troubleshoot. Started with RAM because the initial Genius Bar diagnosis pointed that way. After hours wasted moving DIMMs around and inconsistent, unrepeatable behavior, I threw in the towel. Went back to Apple, resigned that I’d have to leave it for a power supply swap. I was stunned and delighted when the manager simply exchanged my bum CPU for a new one. Let’s hope that one iMac really was just a lemon.

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