... well, that was a looooooong time ago, we had those MacBook's wink-wink 😁
But ... thinking about it .... if I have failing RAM memory ... why doesn't Big Sur or Catalina ... give the same error message? ... or that when I run the built in Diagnostic (hold "D" when you reboot, and you'll get into it ...) mode ... I doesn't warn / say anything about "Failing RAM" ...
Glad swiping memory helped you 😊 ... but like a "logical vulkan (star trek) mind", it doesn't really compute
PS. if you have an older mac, where "D" doesn't work ... try this: https://github.com/upekkha/AppleHardwareTest