Startup Carbon-App Problem due to Ram?

[dricci]

Well, since I had 520 some MB of ram in my Compaq and only 128 MB in my iMac, I thought it was time to make a change. (I Only use the compaq for Unreal Tournament and a few other Games).

My iMac is a blue 350MHz DV-style one (it was the base model DV, without the firewire and vga out).
I had 2 64MB PC-100 ram bars in it. So, I shut down, and pulled out a 256MB bar from the compaq and stuck it in the iMac (bottom slot I think it was). So now there's a 64MB PC-100 bar and a 256MB PC-133 bar in the iMac.

I started up, noticed that the happy mac got 'stuck' for about 30-60 seconds, but the hard drive was doing something. Then it started up. I noticed some things wrong right off the bat, my Christmas Wreath and Apple Stock Dock apps weren't doing anything. They had 'loaded' but weren't doing their dock-ish things, and when I clicked on them they didn't load their apps.

Second, no app would start, just bounced and bounced. I had to do a hard reboot to get it back to normal (it started up much quicker the second time.) I had the same problems and I remembered someone said that it had something to do with carbon apps being told to launch at login. So, I disabled apple stock dock, christmas wreath, and stickies from my login, rebooted, and now it's working perfectly! And this iMac is flying!

So, my point is: Does this login carbon-app startup have anything to do with the ram you use? Could this be the answer to that dark 'bug' apple can't seem to fix? All the apps started up fine wtih the 2 64MB PC-100 bars.

Anyways, I guess I can live without the startup items for now, but hopefully apple will fix this in 10.1.2. I know I'm going to leave feedback about it right now. Has anyone else had this problem, or found any solutions, like switching the ram order? It'd be great to hear from people who've experimented.

[uoba]

I don't know of any RAM issues with what you mention, but, I got stuck with log-in start up apps for a few weeks. They either never worked, or took eternity to start-up, causing untold painful waiting.

However, when i was forced to reinstall 10.1, I installed to log-in startup items first. They now work a treat. everything startup straight away.

I guess when my system had a bit of history it didn't handle the startup items too well.

[edX]

I installed to log-in startup items first.

how do i do this? i am not a programmer nor do i speak computer language, so please be specific.