Sounds like you need to clean the contacts on the ram plug/socket. But it
could be an intermittent problem on the motherboard which would have flexed
a lot while un/plugging the ram.
I hope it continues to work !
Jez
On Friday, August 15, 2014, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the gods were smiling on me (but not sure) I took some ram home
> from work to try. first I swapped the ram over in the slots, no difference,
> I had only one 8GB module form wrk so tried that, still a problem but it
> was different, stripes were not so bright and there was more flickering - I
> was getting 1" stripes of colour alternating between a light green and blue
> across the screen and when I logged in it just hung which is why i wasn't
> totally convinced it was a graphic card issue.
>
> So then I tried two slower speed 2GB modules and it worked fine, I did
> several reboots and wake from sleep operations and all was hunky dory. I
> replaced the original ram and everything was now fine and dandy, even this
> morning when I did a few wake from sleep tests it was ok. Its too early to
> say its totally cured but at least it's useable again for now.
>
> At least the research was helpfull and apart from the money a new macbook
> might not be the end of the world but there is rumours of anti reflective
> coatings and the next generation of processors on the horizon so the
> longer it works the better.
>
> Ian W
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