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hello
i have a g5 quad which i have recently upgraded the ram to 8 gig, 2 sets of 4gb in matched pairs of 2gb simms of kingston ecc ram. my issue is no matter how much software i am running i cannot access more than a total of 4 gb, according to the activity monitor. my main use is cubase 4 (which is supposed to be able to access 4 gb max as of this current version) and other audio related programs. i also had numerous ram issues with this machine and had to send back ram from two other manufacturers.
my concern is that some of the ram is not being utilized by the machine and i am curious if there is a way to identify whether this could be possible due to some other hardware problem. i had the machine tested by a reputable apple tech but they did not test the machine with all the ram installed .. instead only tested with the standard issue ram from apple (one pair of 256 mb simms. is it possible that the motherboard is having issues with that task and if so how would i go about testing this?
thanks
i have a g5 quad which i have recently upgraded the ram to 8 gig, 2 sets of 4gb in matched pairs of 2gb simms of kingston ecc ram. my issue is no matter how much software i am running i cannot access more than a total of 4 gb, according to the activity monitor. my main use is cubase 4 (which is supposed to be able to access 4 gb max as of this current version) and other audio related programs. i also had numerous ram issues with this machine and had to send back ram from two other manufacturers.
my concern is that some of the ram is not being utilized by the machine and i am curious if there is a way to identify whether this could be possible due to some other hardware problem. i had the machine tested by a reputable apple tech but they did not test the machine with all the ram installed .. instead only tested with the standard issue ram from apple (one pair of 256 mb simms. is it possible that the motherboard is having issues with that task and if so how would i go about testing this?
thanks