Got Punked By Some Cheap RAM

The Mac Mini’s modem apparently blew up, so I bought a replacement modem off of fleabay hoping to DIY. I’m innocently multitasking half a dozen programs when my laptop freezes. No problem, I’ve had it on for a week.

When I restart it, everything is ass-backwards and not functioning. My iTunes is borked, and the thing freezes every five minutes. I run the diagnostics thing included on the OSX disc (not expecting anything, since it didn’t tell me anything about the Mac Mini) and it sez I have a memory error.

I take out the additional 1gb of RAM I installed a few years ago, hoping for the best. Miracle of miracles, that is the culprit. My laptop is running fine, albeit with a paltry 256mb of RAM.

Moral of the story? Don’t buy cheap RAM. Or, alternatively, don’t expect it to last forever.

Expect more posts within the coming days. Stuff happens.