'Til death
I previously wrote about my MacBook's bad memory board. Well, that turns out to not quite be the case...
It's time to retell the story, but this time with some crucial details.
I'd come back from the San Francisco Apple store to Moscone West, with a newly-purchased eyeglass screwdriver in hand. I sat in the lunch area, and started taking the MacBook apart. I pulled the memory board on the right. Tried it out, and it crashed (kernel panic). So I put the memory board back, and pulled out the one on the left. Tried it, and the computer worked. So I stashed the memory board away in the antistatic bag that the Apple guy had given me.
However, for the next few days the machine kept acting up. Occasional panics, and some rock-solid freezes—the same problems that I was having before. So before RMA-ing the memory, I wanted to try one thing. I moved the remaining memory board from the right slot to the left slot. Startup. Boom. Panic.
Great. So I pulled that board, and installed the original Apple memory. Startup. Boom. Panic.
So I pulled out my hard drive, and installed the original Apple hard drive. Startup. Boom. Panic.
At this point, I have a stock black MacBook with the original factory-imaged hard drive kernel panicing on a single user boot. This is obviously not an ideal situation. Apple store, here I come.
I wonder if I can get sick time to attend to my laptop.