Unstable after RAM upgrade

so has the RAM upgrade problem been fixed absolutely? are there anyone still experiencing the freezing problem?

I'm also curious on everyones status with their ram issues, I assume if things remedied themselves there would be more chatter, but you never know.

yea. Because now everybody's so quite, it seems like the problem is not that serious as before, or maybe most of them got the problem fixed. But I still wonder.

after reading these post i hopped that the problem was solved but the patriot ram that i got from fry's few days ago still has the same problem. it seems like it crashes when viewing flash type videos, it's guaranteed if i watch a long flash video it will crash and do it very consistently. the screen does a fuzzy thing and audio loops.

i bought 2 2gig Patriot ram, my computer is aluminum macbook 2ghz. i recommend if you have bought 3rd party ram go to google video or something and play a long video if it doesn't crash i'm sure your ram is ok maybe!?!?

It's unfortunate you are having the problem as well. I would expect after such a relatively long time of apparent ram issues that there would be some sort of response from either the ram manufacturers or Apple itself on the matter. I have been contemplating upgrading my ram, but until I can be at least semi-confident that I wouldn't have to fiddle and muck about (exact reason for deciding to switch over to Apple), I will just have to wait.

I'm almost certain the problem is from apple. Because it's hardly believable to see such a coincidence that people using different brand of memory sticks have the same type of problem.

No, the problem is using ram not designed for the MacBook. People need to stop using the cheapest possible ram in hopes that it works and then complaining when it does not.

I have used mushkin RAM for a week now with 0 problems and recommend it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146878

It is $110 at the time of this post and worked out of the box in a Macbook aluminum. Make sure you have the latest firmware and OS update.

I have no crashes, performance is improved and it wakes from sleep just fine. best ofg all, it sees all 4 GB

Not designed for the MB? Ok... OWC RAM is designed for Macs and doesn't work. I do believe it has to do with memory management.

No really that ram i linked just works. Of course if you do not run the firmware patches and os updates then you can't expect the same results

Not sure what else to say here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santoniuk/3194883551/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santoniuk/3194895269/

The links prove it works

Message was edited by: Antoniuk

FYI, if you clicked into the link you provided above: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146878 , you would see there's one comment saying it is not working with MBP.
Also FYI, not everybody's getting problem with their memory sticks. It is possible for the same pair of sticks not working on one macbook but not working on any other ones.

Not really concerned about MBP (this is after all the macbook 2008 forum 😉 )

It is not really likely that one manufacturer's RAM is that unstable. This could be a case of the 2.0 model line not being manufactured along the same lines as the 2.4. It could also be the vendor selling the Macbooks. I bought mine directly from and Apple Store and have had no problems.

Most likely this is a case of either a manufacturer like OWC using different RAM manufacturers and pawning it off as the same brand. I am also assuming the majority of people having issues still are either using the wrong speed, voltage, timing, and latency of RAM or not following the recommendations and updating software.

Antoniuk:

The RAM I tried (which didn't work) was sold by a premium apple reseller, and they stated that the memory was tested with the new macbooks and guaranteed to work.

You can't just ignore that masses of MB users who has problems just because you don't.

ok im happy to report that another set of ram that i purchased works fine. interestingly the ram that i got from OWC is the same ram that Antoniuk purchased, the Mushkin RAM and if you look at the labeling the chips is from NANYA, the ones I got from OWC was NANYA as well, it looks the same and the part number that you screenshot is the same as well. so OWC as well as Mushkin just resells sells these Macbook rams with their own label. i did my test that i know can guarantee freezes, i sat through 2 hours of Charlie Rose flash video programs on Google and they all played fine. this was while doing some work with lots of apps open at the same time like CS4 Photoshop, Illustrator, Parallels Win XP and looking at some random websites to stress the computer to make it crash. fortunately nothing weird happened, also this saved me some money since the first set of ram i got wasn't cheap.

The RAM I had that didn't work was from Aenon (never heard of it).

The model nr was AEH860SD00

I still believe this is a small number of users. It should be added by everyone experiencing the issue the following:

The make and serial number of the ram as well as the the serial number of the system with complete specs. This could be a very small batch of Macbooks that are bad.

I was able to not only play vidoe and gmaes that would and should crash if unstable but installed Windows 7 via Parallels 4 without issue.

I have been keeping up with updates to the OS.