Well my two sticks of new RAM arrived today and I’ve spent the past hour trying to get the MacBook Pro to work. I now believe that the top slot, not the RAM but the slot itself, has been flaky. I believe that because after swapping the RAM for the new RAM the MBP will not boot anymore. I swapped RAM and tested many different configurations and came to the realization that if I have any RAM in the top slot, old or new, the MBP will not boot. I can put any of the four RAM sticks in the bottom slot alone and the device will boot and run happily so my conclusion is the top slot itself is now totally dead. It’s off to the Genius Bar once again later to see about getting the slot fixed. Geez I’m tired of this.
UPDATE: Since they didn’t have an appointment slot farther away from rush hour than they did I have scheduled my appointment for tomorrow morning. Meanwhile I am running the MBP on the new 2 GB RAM stick in the good slot and I’ll see how it does between now and then.
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