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mwhities

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I just upgraded my MacMini 3,1 to a 64G SSD drive. I also upgraded the RAM to 8Gs. The issue I'm having is the home screen is "lagging" or something. It seems toi only happen when the system goes to sleep on it's own.

If I log off or switch users, it doesn't appear to do it. Anyone experience this any? This happens as I move the mouse around and I believe it never happened when I had the standard Sata drive in.

If you need anymore info on the system, let me know.

Thanks.

EDIT: Added GPU SS.
 

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what are the pair of 4gb sticks of ram. what is your ssd?

one or the other are casuing the issue. the 2009 mini does not run all sata III ssd's in sata II speed. it down clocks to sata I look up your sata negotiated speed and see if it is 3.0 GHz= sata II or 1.5ghz + sata I .


also google ; kelley rember ram test for mac .

down load it and run a 2 pass ram test on all availible ram.

takes a few hours.
 
what are the pair of 4gb sticks of ram. what is your ssd?

one or the other are casuing the issue. the 2009 mini does not run all sata III ssd's in sata II speed. it down clocks to sata I look up your sata negotiated speed and see if it is 3.0 GHz= sata II or 1.5ghz + sata I .


also google ; kelley rember ram test for mac .

down load it and run a 2 pass ram test on all availible ram.

takes a few hours.

Here are screen shots. The ram is from OWC and the SSD is a 64G M4 Cruicial.
 

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Results from Rember.

Rember Test Results

All tests passed!

Total built-in memory: 8 GB


This is the total amount of physical memory that the computer has installed. If this figure is not showing the correct amount of memory there may be a problem with one or more installed DIMMS.

Available memory: 6148 MB

Available memory is the amount of physical memory that is currently not in use by any other processes. All available memory will be used for testing when the "All" option is selected. To increase the amount of available memory, you can restart your computer before testing. If you are familiar with the command line (CLI), you can run memtest (the core of Rember) in single-user mode. See Rember help, or http://www.memtestosx.org for more information.

Requested amount: All MB

The total amount of memory requested for testing by the Rember application. Not all requested memory can be allocated for testing. See information on "Available memory" for more information.

Memory allocated for testing: 6148 MB

This is the total amount of memory that memtest was able to allocate for testing. See "Available memory" section for more information.

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Loops selected: 1

Total loops selected by user for testing. All loops should complete when testing is successful. Test failure when the "Continue on Error" preference is selected will cancel tests before this number of loops has been completed. Users can also cancel testing before this number is reached.

Loops completed: 1

Total loops completed by memtest. Note that the Rember is not always able to identify how many loops ran. If there are discrepancies between this and the loops selected, the log should be examined to determine exactly how many loops were performed.
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Total execution time: All tests passed! Execution time: 6075 seconds

This is the total amount of time that it took to execute the selected tests. Execution time may vary from system to system, and is provided as a guide for determining how long users can expect tests to run based on the amount of memory installed on the system.

Testing start time: 2012-07-21 17:27:37 +0000

Testing end time: 2012-07-21 19:08:58 +0000


Rember version: 0.3.7b Memtest version: 4.22
 
well that is not what i expected. as it all seems to have fully passed.


try a google of crucial m4 and sleep issues or hibernation. i kind of remember that some crucial ssds have a sleep/ hibernate issue. i think the revision number of 309 is the older firmware.


you would want 000f




http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/M4-Firmware-000f-is-now-available/td-p/93526




http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/M4-firmware-0309-is-now-available/td-p/80286




0309 vs 000f


http://www.google.com/search?client...l+m4+firmware++0309+vs+000f&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8




thats all I got. but there have been issues with your ssd and macs.
 
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