Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I bought an extra 1 gig of Ram, and was extremely happy with it over about a week. And then bad things started happening.

First, WoW crashed just after I got to a big boss in Scholomance. Then, I was getting reports from Windows that it was recovering from a serious system error, and finally Windows wouldn’t boot at all. I tracked all of this down to what I thought was a dodgy stick of Ram. Which I returned, and got a replacement.

The guy at the shop mentioned then that there were some potential issues with using this particular Ram in a Dual Channel situation. That is where the Ram is paired in slots of the same value and speed for a supposed performance increase. Why he didn’t mention this before, when I first bought the Ram is beyond me, since I did specifically state it was for this type of implementation.

So, I’ve solved the problem by not having the Ram paired. And that seems, for the time being, to have solved the problem. I’m not sure how much of a performance increase I would get from Interleaving the Ram, but I’m happy it’s working now without crashing.

View Comments (0)  

I’ve borrowed a laptop from work, and a Wireless Access Point device, so now I can do stuff from my bedroom late at night, like I am this.

However, just recently I have come across some sort of strange behaviour. Sometimes, but not all of the time, MacOS’s Internet Sharing feature seems to get turned off. Which means I need to get access to the machine and restart it. Not much fun when I’m all toasty warm in bed, and the Mac is in the cold, cold study.

So, I’ve done a little bit of research.

I might be able to restart it using:

$ sudo /usr/libexec/InternetSharing

I’ll try that next time it drops out… but I’d rather have a better fix.

View Comments (2)