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Imac mid 2011 confusing ram installation
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<blockquote data-quote="zarathu" data-source="post: 1269398" data-attributes="member: 138477"><p>I'm confused by the description in the apple support notice(<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1423" target="_blank">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1423</a>):</p><p></p><p>"i5 and i7 Quad Core iMac computers come with both top memory slots populated. These computers will not start up if only a single DIMM is installed in any bottom slot; these computers should operate normally with a single DIMM installed in any top slot."</p><p></p><p>They are populated with 2-2gig chips. But if I want to add a 4 gig chip, the implication is that I cannot put it in one of theopen bottom slots. So to make sure that I don't have only one chip in the bottom slot, I would need to move one of the 2 gig chips that were pre installed, into a bottom slot to go along with the 4 gig chip I'm adding.</p><p></p><p>Is this correct??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zarathu, post: 1269398, member: 138477"] I'm confused by the description in the apple support notice([url]http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1423[/url]): "i5 and i7 Quad Core iMac computers come with both top memory slots populated. These computers will not start up if only a single DIMM is installed in any bottom slot; these computers should operate normally with a single DIMM installed in any top slot." They are populated with 2-2gig chips. But if I want to add a 4 gig chip, the implication is that I cannot put it in one of theopen bottom slots. So to make sure that I don't have only one chip in the bottom slot, I would need to move one of the 2 gig chips that were pre installed, into a bottom slot to go along with the 4 gig chip I'm adding. Is this correct?? [/QUOTE]
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