Someone help me!

munch · Jan 24, 2006

So I decided to take the initiative and get some more RAM for my G4 ibook. I order this RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820145065

Well, i've placed it in about 5 times and my ibook has yet to read the memory. Am i doing something wrong? I'm following the instructions in the manual and it's not working. AHHHHH!!! I need help!

mynameis · Jan 24, 2006

Which model iBook do you have?

It is probably just a bad stick. Every memory manufacturer ships a couple bad sticks every once in awhile.

munch · Jan 24, 2006

mynameis said:
Which model iBook do you have?

It is probably just a bad stick. Every memory manufacturer ships a couple bad sticks every once in awhile.

It's a G4. The problem was i wasn't sticking it in far enough. I actually had to press it in one corner all the way and then put the other corner in. I now have 1.5 Ghz!!! awesome!

EDIT-XTREEM · Jan 24, 2006

munch said:
It's a G4. The problem was i wasn't sticking it in far enough. I actually had to press it in one corner all the way and then put the other corner in. I now have 1.5 Ghz!!! awesome!

dont you mean 1.5 gb not ghz?

munch · Jan 24, 2006

EDIT-XTREEM said:
dont you mean 1.5 gb not ghz?

Ha! Yes, I do mean 1.5 gb.

trapzilla2002 · Jan 25, 2006

yo, i bit the bullet and i bought the memory right from apple store. i didn't want to, but i heard about the issues you are having and didn't want to go through them.

hope it works out.

munch · Jan 25, 2006

trapzilla2002 said:
yo, i bit the bullet and i bought the memory right from apple store. i didn't want to, but i heard about the issues you are having and didn't want to go through them.

hope it works out.

It works great. It was my fault: I wasn't sticking it in all the way. I had to push hard into one corner first, then the other and it read it. If i had installed RAM before I would have realized what i was doing and done it right the first time. There is nothing special about the RAM at the apple store. I say go with the cheaper one at New Egg. I'm running at 1.5gb and it's great.

toulouse · Jan 26, 2006

I've been thinking of upgrading with the exact same memory for my G4 so that's good that it worked out. How much of a difference have you noticed with 1.5GB or RAM?

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Right, nevermind, you answered that question in another thread