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stoicvoid
May 28th, 2002, 12:44 AM
Hello, I have an imac g3 se and I have 1 256 and a 128meg ram stick in it only the 256 shows up i read a previous post about zapping the pram to get it to reconize them both so i tryed and my computer shutdown on the fourth zap/startupbeep then when i tryed to start it up it just shut back down again and again, it seems to be working now but forawhile the monitor was not turning on, Why did this happen and if it happens again how can i fix it?

Buzz
May 28th, 2002, 07:08 PM
Welcome!

It sunds as if you have a bad RAM stick or RAM that the iMac can' t use. it happens. What type of RAM is is? PC-100, PC-133? What processor speed is the machine?

if you pull out the 128 stick does the Mac operate correctly?