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Dec 26 / 6:09pm

Clean installation of Snow Leopard failed

I received a 64GB Kingston Solid-State Drive for this year's Christmas gift (Kingston SSDNOW V SERIES). Given that the old Macbook that I used for exercising has been having a hard drive issue lately, I decided to replace it with this new SSD. However, I encountered an issue.

Problem:
Clean install of Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6  shows the following error message:

Install Failed
The installer could not copy the necessary support files

Information / History:
The Macbook model number is A1181. The install DVD is 22691-6558-A. 
Upgraded the memory to a single PNY 2GB DDR2 SODIMM two months ago. 

Solution:
Replaced the SODIMM with the ones that originally came with Macbook which were 2 pieces of NANYA 512MB PC2-5300 SODIMM.

Update:
Memory test failed on PNY 2GB DDR2 SODIMM which I purchased two months ago at Fry's at discounted price.
A lesson learned to always do memory test on a newly purchased DDR. Same goes with HDD.
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