Mac Problems
I recently did the latest update to Leopard which totally screwed up my macbook pro. The update made finder and the dock unusable, so I basically couldn’t do anything once it booted in. I tried doing an archive and install and upon installing leopard it would fail.
The strangest thing to me is that Tiger would work perfectly fine and then upon installing Leopard it wouldn’t work. Doing some research online (which was really hard to find anything) I discovered that that the failure to install leopard could be due to memory issues. I didn’t beleive it at first. Doing a update to the OS and having it screw up be related to a memory problem? Looks like I was wrong. I did the Apple Hardware test and sure enough it was reporting some strange memory error, which I couldn’t find a description online when typing the error code in.
I ordered some new memory from Crucial (4gb) and with my luck one of the sticks was bad! I ended up having to use one of the good sticks, and one of the good sticks from the orginal set. So now I got 3gb and I was able to install leopard again and do the update just fine.
Very strange! Apparently Leopard is VERY dependant upon RAM. If you’re having strange issues, replace your ram. Its really cheap to do and could solve all your problems.
