ram installation

Hi

if I put 4 gb of ram in my 2005 mac g5 and boot it it only shows there is 2gb installed?

so I tried installing 2gb ram and it showed only 1gb?

I am installing from the centre out with the same size ram sticks

anyone can tell me why it is doing this

thank you daviejon

what model of mac is it, tower or imac

installed ram

Hi its a tower

Make sure you are fully inserting the ram sticks into the slots. You actually have to push them in with a little force (but not too much - dont break them!). You should hear and feel them click into place then you can flip the latches back closed to keep them sealed in.

yes done that several times still the same?

all the ram is fully installed into slots clips in place

You have to install the chips in matching pairs and in the correct slots

THere should be to baks of ram slots, so place one chip on the top and its pair in the same slot in the bottom bank

And where did you get the memory? G5's are very fussy about low density Mac compatible modules. Do not use high density modules for PCs.


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2248