PowerMac G5 RAM Help

joe.seymour99 · Sep 16, 2010

Hi Mac Forums,

I have a Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 and i am having a problem with the RAM, it has 8 slots and i have put 4GB in there (4x 1GB Chips) but they are only registering the chips as 512MB each so its only registering as 2GB, they are installed in matching pairs and also they all the same speed

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

Joe

pigoo3 · Sep 16, 2010

joe.seymour99 said:
Hi Mac Forums,

I have a Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 and i am having a problem with the RAM, it has 8 slots and i have put 4GB in there (4x 1GB Chips) but they are only registering the chips as 512MB each so its only registering as 2GB, they are installed in matching pairs and also they all the same speed

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

Joe

Give the link below a read. Most important things are...do you have the correct ram...and are they installed in matched pairs in the appropriate ram slots.

Power Mac G5: Memory Specifications and Requirements

HTH,

- Nick

joe.seymour99 · Sep 16, 2010

Thats great ill double check the speeds etc

Cheers

Joe

MacKeeperUser · Sep 17, 2010

What operation system do you use? Maybe the problem is in it.
Check your drives for motherboard.

harryb2448 · Sep 17, 2010

PowerPC machines are very fussy about memory and it must be Mac compatible low density memory. Go to OWC, check out the specs, and check your memory. Sounds like only one side of the modules is being recognised which indicates perhaps it is PC memory.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/3200DDR2GBP/

pigoo3 · Sep 17, 2010

harryb2448 said:
Go to OWB...

Or "OWC"...

OWC

- Nick

p.s. Sorry Harry...you made the correction 2 seconds after I posted.

PowerMac G5 RAM Help

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