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I have a Mac Pro Quad-core Intel Xeon 3 GHz tower. I purchased it last year with 4 GB of memory, and yesterday I expanded it to 12 GB. I purchased my dimms from Ramjet and they are 100% Apple compliant, and compatible with Mac Pro.
After installing the new dimms, my Mac Pro recognizes the memory and all seems to be going well, but I have had sudden restarts happen 2 times so far. I will be working on After Effects (most of my work) and suddenly the screen goes black and restarts after a while. The first time it happened (yesterday after installing) the fans went nuts and I shut it down with the power button and after a while all came up fine, and I worked the rest of the afternoon. The last 2 times happened this morning. First it would not wake up so I had to restart. Then again I had a sudden restart, but this time without the fans going nuts.
I wonder if I should be putting the dimms in differently? Here is how I have them:
Originally I had a 1 GB dimm in the each of the top 2 slots of each riser, A & B. Now each riser has a 1 GB DIMM in slots 1 & 2, and a 2 GB DIMM in slots 3 & 4. Should I rearrange these? Although I seem to be able to work after a while, it seems that when it is still cold it runs a bit flaky. Any advice would be welcome. THANK YOU.
Miguel
After installing the new dimms, my Mac Pro recognizes the memory and all seems to be going well, but I have had sudden restarts happen 2 times so far. I will be working on After Effects (most of my work) and suddenly the screen goes black and restarts after a while. The first time it happened (yesterday after installing) the fans went nuts and I shut it down with the power button and after a while all came up fine, and I worked the rest of the afternoon. The last 2 times happened this morning. First it would not wake up so I had to restart. Then again I had a sudden restart, but this time without the fans going nuts.
I wonder if I should be putting the dimms in differently? Here is how I have them:
Originally I had a 1 GB dimm in the each of the top 2 slots of each riser, A & B. Now each riser has a 1 GB DIMM in slots 1 & 2, and a 2 GB DIMM in slots 3 & 4. Should I rearrange these? Although I seem to be able to work after a while, it seems that when it is still cold it runs a bit flaky. Any advice would be welcome. THANK YOU.
Miguel