IbookG3 wont recognize memory stick or burn disks after adding more memory

I recently added more memory to my old ibook. Now when I put my memory stick in either USB ports nothing comes up on the desktop. I also can't get anything to burn onto disc. Any ideas?

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Have you tried removing the RAM to see if those capabilities return to the iBook?
How big is the hard drive and how much space remains available on it?

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Hello, I have one of the first Power Mac G5s (Single 1.8-Ghz, 8 DIMM sockets). The machine came with 512MB of RAM standard.
I'm trying to add more memory, but when I install additional modules, OS X doesn't boot up. I've tested the modules on their own, and they are fine.
When memory is installed in DIMM sockets 0 and 1, the computer is fine and boots up as normal. When I install the next pair, nothing happens. The computer turns on but nothing happens. Blank screen, hard drive isn't clicking, etc.
I've followed instructions from Apple, and I've attempted resetting PRAM, but nothing is working.
Should I reset PRAM before I install the modules?
Any advice would be appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Sometimes even two batches of RAM from a "good" vendor like Crucial are incompatible, and you're saying each set works on their own but not when installed at the same time.
With the new set in, run AHT and Memtest to be sure. AHT should be able to load - but maybe not.
When swapping RAM, either boot into Open Firmware and reset-nvram or try the old keyboard "zap pram/nvram" routine.
It may be that the latest memory is trying to be "backward compatible" which doesn't always work. You're G5 1.8-SP is a very early Sept/Oct 2003 model.
You should always reset nvram when changing hardware configurations.

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There is excessive swapping of data between physical memory and virtual memory. That can happen for two reasons:
You have a long-running process with a memory leak (i.e., a bug), or
You don't have enough memory installed for your usage pattern.
Tracking down a memory leak can be difficult, and it may come down to a process of elimination.
When you notice the swap activity, open the Activity Monitor application and select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Click the heading of the Real Mem column in the process table twice to sort the table with the highest value at the top. If you don't see that column, select
View ▹ Columns ▹ Real Memory
from the menu bar.
If one process (excluding "kernel_task") is using much more memory than all the others, that could be an indication of a leak. A better indication would be a process that continually grabs more and more real memory over time without ever releasing it. Here is an example of how it's done.
The process named "Safari Web Content" renders web pages for Safari and other applications. It uses a lot of memory and may leak if certain Safari extensions or third-party web plugins are installed. Consider it a prime suspect.
Another process often implicated in memory leaks is "inkjet8," which is a component of the HP printing softwre. If it's present, force-quit the process in Activity Monitor to solve the problem temporarily. If you don't use an HP printer, remove the software. Otherwise, if the problem is recurrent, update the software (which may not help) or contact HP support.
If you don't have an obvious memory leak, your options are to install more memory (if possible) or to run fewer programs simultaneously.
The next suggestion is only for users familiar with the shell. For a more precise, but potentially misleading, test, run the following command:
sudo leaks -nocontext -nostacks process | grep total
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If you like to work with photos, graphics, or videos at all, then 2 GB would be much better; I actually had 3 GB installed when I was running Snow Leopard (that was the maximum for my iMac). The minimum requirements published are exactly that: a minimum. For instance, for Mountain Lion, it says 2 GB; unless you do nothing but email and web browsing, 4 GB is a much more realistic minimum.
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I've been working on a photo project with tens of thousands of image files. As I've been working through this project, I've been burning pictures to CD-ROMs. I'm using standard 700 MB CD-R disks, and until now I've been able to fit about 3,500-4,000 files on each disk, or a total size of about 640-660 MB. I've burned ten CD-ROMs this way in the past year.
Last night I was prompted for an automatic update from OS 10.4.9 to OS 10.4.10, which I did. After the computer updated and restarted, something automatically launched itself from the dock, gave the following unusual message which immediately aroused my suspicion: UPDATING HL-DT-ST DVDRW 6 WA 4080 MA TO BE39 ...
This was as far as I was able to copy before the process finished and the screen disappeared. Another part of the message said not to interrupt the installation or else I could end up with a non-functioning device.
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My guess is that reverting to a previous OS did not fix whatever changes were made to the driver, but I'm not sure how I should proceed here. I'm also wondering if this is more generally related to OS 10.4, because I cannot recall burning a data CD like this since I upgraded from OS 10.3 (but backing up purchased audio files from iTunes was the same as always).
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Thanks Carolym for your response.
Go to System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. Delete any
applications you have listed.
I did this; there were four applications including the driver update software that self-installed last night. Who knew it was still lurking around after being deleted?
But, after restarting, the problem persists.
Is this a SuperDrive that can also burn to DVD? If
so, read here; http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/
superdrivefw_update2.1.html
Yes, it is.
This page didn't make any sense to me. Were these posts by people installing the update or removing it? That page seems to refer to the update that happened last night, which seems to have started my problems. Can you elaborate on this?
I've replicated this on both my internal drive and an external drive connected by FireWire. I've never had problems with this media before. The alsoft.com site is apparently off-line today.
The entire problem seems to be software related. The size discrepancy between what's reported by the "Burn Disk" Finder window is now TWICE the size reported on the "Get Info" window. It's as if it is reading the contents to be burned twice when calculating their size.
The files I want to put on a disk are 640.5 MB. Everything on my computer says this, except the Finder window for the disk. At the bottom of the window it reports the files are over 1,291 MB in size, which is too large to fit on the 700 MB disk. But when I select the files in that same finder window with command-i, it says 640.5 MB.
For kicks, I put the disk I burned last night through Disk Utility. It showed the 400.5 MB of files on the 700 MB Disk. So, there was about 260 MB of space wasted on that disk. When I burned the disk last night, the computer was thinking the files were about 660 MB (which is the most it has ever allowed me to write to a disk). Disk Utility also said the disk was burned in Mac format, and I was under the impression this computer was burning to ISO format.
Is there some setting somewhere that perhaps I'm overlooking that writes the disks a certain way and that could be the cause? Could it be a memory issue/allocation/buffer size/etc issue? Something else?
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But do not simply move the songs, grab the ENTIRE iTunes folder so that the iTunesLibrary.itl file is captured as well. Without that file, you essentially start over with playlist, playcounts, and library layout.

Adding more memory...

Hello everyone. I currently own a 15" MacBook Pro w/ a single 512MB RAM. I use a lot of Adobe products (I'm a Graphic Design major), and unforetunately they all run under Rosseta. Now, I don't know if it's hella slow because of Rosseta, or the memory that I currently have. Do you guys feels that it might run faster if I ad more memory, or those it not matter because it's running under Rosseta? Another question is: if I istall windows on my MacBook Pro, would it be better to just run the windows versions? Thanks to whoever can solve this for me.

hi -
adding memory helps everything, the finder, apps under rosetta, everything. depending on how much $$ you have available, a 2nd 512MB stick would really help.
even better, but more expensive (~$250) would be to remove the 512MB stick and put in two 1GB sticks... yeeeeeehhhhaaa!
re: the second question.... if you boot into Windows via Bootcamp, and install the latest versions of the adobe apps under that windows partition, they might indeed run faster. not all adobe products are universal binary now, so rosetta will be involved until they become UB...
maxxing out your memory will certainly help rosetta. but still there's an emulation layer there that isn't there if booting into WinXP via bootcamp.
if you interested in the maximum possible graphics performance under windows, you should go the bootcamp route, not Parallels.... Parallels is fine for a lot of things, but intensive graphics isn't one of them...
cheers

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Hi Guys
I own a 13 inch Macbook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 which currently has 4GB of memory. It often seems to run quite slowly, so I was wondering whether it might be worth upgrading the memory on it. Based on what I've read online, it seems the way to tell if you could benefit from more memory is to look at page ins/outs. Compared to what I've seen online mine seem to be quite high.
I wondered if you guys could advise as to whether or not I could benefit from some additional memory? Would I actual notice any improvement in the performance of my MBP If I were to add more?
Thanks in advance!
George

General rule is if page outs exceed 10% to 15% of page ins, you can use more memory for the programs you run. In the picture you posted, essentially page outs = page ins. You can use more memory.
Your 2011 MBP can use up to 16GB of memory. Recommend installing in matched pairs, ie 2 x 4GB, for slightly better performance. OWC and Crucial are two good sources.

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