Death of a SO-DIMM
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Last night, I restarted my iMac, poured a coffee, and nearly scalded myself when the computer started shrieking hysterically at me. After cleaning up and trying it again, just to confirm I wasn’t having some kind of seizure, a little Googling revealed the source of my woes: a faulty memory module.
Luckily, after forcing it to assume the position (face down on the bed and crying, ladies) and having at it with a trusty Philips screwdriver, I pulled the dodgy one and had it rebooting as normal, albeit short of 2GB RAM.
So what now? I’m not particularly fond of carting it off to Apple for the next week, since they will undoubtedly wipe my hard drive as a matter of course and erase my treasured collection of midget porn university documents. I also tried ringing the Apple store, only to be told its not as easy as just bringing the duff RAM down there and getting a new one.
I’m almost tempted to just write it off and buy a spanking new RAM kit from Crucial: I’ve had good luck with them in the past, I won’t have any downtime, and it’s going to be a damn sight better than the crap from Hynix that comes in the box.
Not happy.
