Macbook Pro Resurrected!

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It is back from the dead! Upon suggestions from a couple of friends and some vague posts on random forums, I swapped out the new 4gb of RAM I bought with the original 2gb that came with the machine. My Macbook Pro then booted without problems. *sigh* Looks like this RAM is headed back to Crucial. For anyone else that’s trying to figure out why their Macbook Pro is showing a grey screen and the light is blinking on the front 3 times, pausing and then blinking again, check your RAM! While trying to find out a way to test RAM, I finally found this page from Apple. I don’t know why I wasn’t able to find this page in any of my searching before. I guess it’s not well indexed for the search terms I was trying. So, this link is for Google to find the page when some poor unfortunate soul that ends up in the same predicament as I did, wondering what the heck three blinks means:
Macbook Pro grey screen, light blinks three times


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3 Responses to “Macbook Pro Resurrected!”

  1. victor on April 12th, 2008 1:00 am

    yikes, i just bought a new MacBook Pro… as well as 4GB of RAM (2gb sticks x 2) from Crucial. I haven’t run into any problems yet, but after reading your story, i’m now worried.

    on the PC side, there is a memory testing program called “memtest” or something like that. Is there anything similar on the Mac side?

  2. Ed Hunsinger on April 12th, 2008 5:46 pm

    @victor: I use memtest on the PC side all the time too. I’m not sure of an equivalent tool for the Mac yet.

    Anyone have any suggestions?

  3. victor on June 21st, 2008 11:39 pm

    i guess memtest exists for Mac, too! I found this article in MacWorld:

    http://www.macworld.com/article/49374/2006/02/speedmemory.html

    http://www.memtestosx.org/

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