HT1423 More than 4 gb ram in each slot?

I have a mid 2011 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 iMac. I bought two 8GB RAM cards. Can I use them? The specs say there are 4 slots meant for 4 GB each. Do I need to return these for two more 4GB ram cards?

Yes, you have four slots. Apple's specs say that model has a max RAM of 16GB (4x4GB modules). However, like many Mac models, newer and larger modules can work in it. Your computer probably shipped with 4GB RAM--two 2GB modules in two of the slots. As long as the new ones are the proper type for your Mac, they shoudl do fine in the two open slots, giving you a total of 20GB RAM.

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More than 2GB RAM 1st gen Macbook

Is there any way possible to get more than 2GB RAM in a 1st gen macbook? I have one 2GB stick in right now but if I try to put even the old 512MB in the other slot I get no video. I also tried two 2GB sticks as well. I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but it doesn't hurt to ask and have hope
I have a dell inspiron with Core2 and it wouldn't see 4GBs until I pulled the battery on it. maybe there is a trick for the macbook like that?

I was hoping since it sees one 2GB stick it may like 2? It was a long shot. I just got this one used, so I'm stuck with it for a while. It runs fine with 2GB though.

Problems deploying Windows 7 x64 computers with more than 8GB RAM

SCCM 2012 R2 CU1
Windows 7 x64
We have a weird problem after upgrading from SP1 to R2 CU1. We have built a Windows 7 64 bit image with the latest updates (currently September 2014 updates). It deploys fine to all computers. But after some days – don’t know exactly – guess after 4-7 days
- we start getting errors on computers with more than 8 GB of RAM. The errors just start out of the blue. We didn't change TS, image or driver package.
The error shows in 3 different ways – depending of the computer model.
1) BSOD – STOP 0x000000F4. Disk error.
2) Task Sequence error 0x87D00269 when installing the first Application in TS. The error seems to have something to do with Management Point not found.
3) Task Sequence simply stops after installing CMclient. No errors - it simply stops.
For instance we get the BSOD on the Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p. But on the ThinkCentre M83 we get the TS error 0x87D00269. M93p and M83 uses the same driver package. They consequently fail every time after the error has begun. If we reduce (remove physically)
the memory to max. 8GB of RAM, they successfully run the Task Sequence. We get the above errors on both Lenovo and HP machines with more than 8GB.
I made a copy of the production TS and started testing. I created a new driver package for M93p/M83. It contains only the NIC drivers. Now M93p an M83 successfully finishes the TS. Adding sata or chipset or MEI/SOL drivers to the package I get the 0x87D00269
error on both m93p and M83. At least not the BSOD on the M93p ;-)
Tried setting SMSTSMPListRequestTimeout to 180 in the TS. Also tried putting in a 5 minute break before installing the first Application in the TS. Also tried putting in SMSMP=mp1.mydomain in the installation properties for the CMclient. It is still
the same problem.
Investigating the smsts.log on a computer with the 0x87D00269 error.
Policy Evaluation failed, hr=0x87d00269 InstallApplication
25-09-2014 08:59:59 3020 (0x0BCC)
Setting TSEnv variable 'SMSTSAppPolicyEvaluationJobID__ScopeId_654E40B7-FC55-4213-B807-B97383283607/Application_d9eea5a0-0660-43e6-94b8-13983890bae2'=''InstallApplication 25-09-2014 08:59:59 3020 (0x0BCC)
EvaluationJob complete InstallApplication25-09-2014 08:59:59 3020 (0x0BCC)
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m_hResult, HRESULT=87d00269 (e:\qfe\nts\sms\client\osdeployment\installapplication\installapplication.cpp,1080) InstallApplication
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Step 2 out of 2 complete InstallApplication 25-09-2014 08:59:59 3020 (0x0BCC)
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Sending error status message InstallApplication 25-09-2014 08:59:59 3020 (0x0BCC)
Setting URL = http://mp1.mydomain, Ports = 80,443, CRL = false InstallApplication 25-09-2014 08:59:59 3020 (0x0BCC)
Investegating the 0x87D00269 error on the siteservers Status Messages Queries is weird.
Install Static Applications failed, hr=0x87d00269. The operating system reported error 617: You have attempted to change your password to one that you have used in the past. The policy of your user account does not allow this. Please select a password that
you have not previously used.
Hopefully this is a bug in translating the errorcodes? Just to be sure I checked all the SCCM serviceaccounts and none of them have expired passwords. And again why only on computers with more than 8GB RAM.
Anyone else had problems rolling computers with more than 8GB og RAM?
Why does this happens after a few days? To begin with, it runs just perfect and then starts failing on all machines with more than 8GB. Without a change in TS, image and driverpackage. We have seen this pattern for the last 3 month after
updating our image with the latest Windows Updates. It all started after updating from SP1 to R2 CU1.
Why does it only affect machines with more than 8GB RAM?
How to get rid of the 0x87D00269 error?
Seems to be somehow related to driver installation mechanism in SCCM in combination with Windows 7 64 bit, +8GB RAM and SCCM 2012 R2 CU1 or perhaps just R2.
Any help or hints would be appreciated!
Thanks
Anders

We have the same workaround, using a x64 boot image resolved all our issues with WinPE 5.0.
Machines with >4GB of RAM
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Black screen/white cursor issues intermittently
No updates from Microsoft, they are still looking through the logs, but we have updated our boot images and all is well now. Our case it still open with Microsoft, they are researching the logs.
Daniel Ratliff | http://www.PotentEngineer.com

Adding more than 2Gb RAM to MacBook Pro

Do you guys know of any way to put more than 2Gb RAM in an Intel 17" MacBook Pro?
Model Name: MacBook Pro 17"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,2
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP12.0061.B03
SMC Version: 1.5f10
I bought this when the 17" models first came out, and have been disappointed in it ever since (I broke my rule of NOT buying the first generation of something). As time has passed, the main problem is the 2Gb limit for RAM. That's NOWHERE near enough, and shame on Apple for that limitation. If there were some way, even a non-standard way, of adding more RAM, I could get reasonable performance from this computer. As it is, this has been a wasted $3600 investment. whew!
Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! Feel free to email bruce at dbsdesigngroup.com

That's possible...actually likely. I'd love for that to be the case because I could fix it. ::Grin:: It's been this way since I first got it. When it arrived with just 1 Gb RAM, it was virtually unusable. I have a few apps as startup items, but they're just Firefox, Entourage, iNotepad, Linotype Font Explorer (with very few fonts activated), and Stickies. That shouldn't affect things much.
My needs are to use Photoshop, Illustrator and GoLive at the same time, with MSWord, Firefox and Entourage open as well. After the first bit of usage, I end up with 4-6 pageouts and a VERY slow computer. While it's doing the pageouts (which take quite a while), or switching between apps, it's very slow. And it's also extremly slow when Spotlight is indexing, so I disabled that.
I'm just not sure what it might be...nothing in Activity Monitor seems like it would be a culprit. Even in Safe Mode the problem is very evident.
I'll keep exploring and hopefully find something that will make this machine more viable for my use. I really appreciate the input greatly.

If my Mini is running 64 bit can I run more than 4Gb RAM?

I hear ALL over the place that the mini can not use more than 4Gb RAM.
Is this a hardware limitaion of the motherboard/Processor?
OR
Is this due to the fact that mini's run at 32 bit?
You can now easily run modern mini's at 64 bit:
http://blog.leanopen.nl/2010/04/23/doesnt-your-mac-mini-want-to-boot-in-64-bit/
So who knows the REAL answer?
Thanks -
skibum

Most of the Minis are limited to less than 4GB and that is a hardware limitation. The newest Mini with the nVidia video can access more. Apple only supports 4GB because they use matched DIMMs, which on paper have a slight performance improvement over unmatched DIMMs. For whatever reason, Apple doesn't yet support 4GB DIMMs in the Mini. (I suspect that the power requirements or prices for the larger DIMMS may have affected Apple's decision.)
If you do have an appropriate Mini, then you can get compatible 4GB DIMMs from [Macsales|http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini> or others. Regardless, although I normally trust Macsales, more than 4GB is not supported by Apple, so you have to take that in to consideration. (i.e.: warranty from Apple or Applecare.)

About a month ago, I began periodically getting the spinning wheel while trimming, adding titles or transitions, etc. It lasts for about 15 seconds and then goes away. This seems to happen once every minute or two. I have more than enough RAM/Power.

About a month ago, I began periodically getting the spinning wheel while trimming, adding titles or transitions, etc. It lasts for about 15 seconds and then goes away. This seems to happen once every minute or two. I have more than enough RAM/Power, etc. About every other time I use FCPX it will spontaneously close (typically when editing a title). None of these things were happening previously. I have lots of projects that I store on Promise Pegasus drives via Thunderbolt. I only keep a few projects and the associated events open in FCPX at a time, otherwise I use Event Managaer X to keep track of them. Can anybody give me any suggestions as to why this is occurring and what I can do to remedy it? I have the latest version of FCPX as far as I can tell. This is driving me mad and costing me significant time while editing. By the way, I am doing just basic editing. Essentially trimming, cutting and adding some transitions and a few title screens. Thanks in advance for your help.

These apperarances of the spinning wheel tend to be related to some io operation that takes too long. Maybe the finder is trying to reach a network server that became unavailable.
I would try clearing caches and do an overall maintenance with an utility like OnyX.
Also, trashing preferences does no harm and is often the first troubleshooting measure when FCP X misbehaves.

What are the benefits to having more than 1GB RAM?

I notice the repeated advice in this forum over the question of "Should I get a Matched pair of 2 x 512MB or total 1.5GB RAM in my iMac G5 Rev. A/B?", and the answer always seems to be "more RAM will always perform faster."
Oh yeah, why? Someone point me to an informed link on subject somewhere else on the web. I mean no offense, but I wonder if, in this case, one bit of misinformtion became Gospel truth that keeps getting repeated over and over.
I'm fairly knowledgeable when it comes to Macs, but I don't understand this response that more RAM will always perform faster. Yes, yes, I know that barefeats.com found very little real-world performance gains in their testing of matched pairs vs. unmatched, or 128-bit vs. 64-bit, in the iMac G5. The same would be true of using CL2.5 vs. CL3.0 RAM -- you just ain't gonna see that much difference. But we are not talking processor speeds or hard drive RPM, which WILL affect all users. More memory is just more memory. If you are not using it, what good does it do? How will more unused memory "speed things up?"
I use a neat little program called "Menumeters." It puts my CPU/Disk/Memory/Network activity all in my menu bar. For the memory, it lists USED and FREE memory. Right now on my 1GB Mac Mini it is using 192MB RAM with 832MB FREE with 3 applications open, one of them being Safari.
I recently DOWNGRADED the memory in my iMac G5 2.0GHz from 2GB to 1GB. Why? Because menumeters showed that even in my 2GB iMac, my memory usage never went above about 800MB. Mind you I do video editing in Final Cut Express, I create DVD's in iDVD, I do photo editing in Photoshop, I manage my 8K digital photo library in iPhoto, and I could have all these and other applications open and running and my memory usage never went above 800MB. Every time I have checked my pageouts have been 0, meaning I never had to write the memory contents to my hard drive.
Which begs the question, how is having 1.5 or 2.0GB of RAM going to be a benefit over 1GB of RAM, when I have never needed more than 1GB of RAM in my Mac? I ask because I can either go with 1.0 or 1.5GB of memory in my iMac G5 right now, as I will sell either the 1GB or 512MB memory on ebay. But I'd like to know if someone can give me a compelling reason to put the 1.5GB in my iMac. Otherwise, it just seems like wasted $ to me, as I'll make over double selling the 1GB vs. the 512MB module.
Home: 20" iMac G5 2.0GHz rev.B/1GB/300GB Mac OS X (10.4.4) Work: Mac Mini 1.5GHz/1GB/64MB video/80GB

"you are telling me what my needs are based on your needs."
Eric, I have never told you what your needs are or should be. Did I once tell you you were wrong to have 2GB of RAM in your system? No. Did I say it is foolish for anyone to run 2GB of RAM in their iMac? No. Did I say 2GB of RAM in everyone's system would be an unnecessary excess? Certainly. Have you advised people to go for 1.5 or 2.0GB of memory instead of 1GB of memory without doing a needs anaylsis? You most certainly have, here and here and here, even after the original poster states they only want to buy a 512MB module, and in the last example, after someone else in that thread encouraged the novice Mac user to do a needs assessment. I'll let each reader determine for themself which they feel is the irresponsible advise.
Also, I never said "the average user, 'just isn’t going to need more than 1GB of RAM, now, or in the life of his iMac G5'" as you claim I did. I said a person running Safari, Mail, and iPhoto will not need more than 1GB. I consider that a light user. To clarify, to me a light user and an average user are not synonymous. And yes, a light user could get by with 512MB with virtual memory on occassion with an approximate 5% system slowdown, a slowdown which will probably not even be noticable.
What is need? To me if someone experiences an occassionaly pageout does not mean they need to go out and buy more memory. As a comparison, imagine you have a china setting for 12 people you received as a wedding gift. Every Sunday your wife fixes a nice dinner and uses the china. Typically you have 4-8 people at dinner every week, depending on if your brother's family joins you or not. But because of a special occassion -- a graduation that weekend -- you have 14 people at your house for lunch. Do you go out and buy enough china for 18 or 24 people, or do you and your wife use your everyday tableware for yourselves and give the other 12 guests the china that one day and save the expense?
See where I am going? 1.0GB of memory vs. 1.5 or 2.0 compares to 12 china settings vs. 18 or 24. And, no, I am NOT saying you, Eric, should only have 1.0GB of memory, but just if a person's needs dictate that.
Someone might stock the cabinet with 24 china settings when 29 meals out of 30 they have only 4-8 people eating on their china. But someone like myself, and other people that are budget conscious, probably will not want to do that. And I know you can change the illustration to support going for a higher amount of RAM, but my point is that for most iMac users, I do not believe that is something they really need.
Regarding your remark about data manipulation, I am sorry if the facts do not support highway's claims. The point of highway's whole remark was based on the premise that Apple shipped 64MB of RAM as the base amount for an iMac of 4 years ago. I showed where that was not a true statement. How is that data manipulation? And the main point of what I wrote was to show how someone writes an erroneous bit of information, then someone else picks up on that and repeats it, and soon more and more come to believe that misinformation. You can see that going on in these posts here and here with Barbara and here with CanadaRAM, either from misinformation from barefeats, or from others users on this board. Notice no one asking about the poster's needs, but just advice to get a higher amount of RAM.
Again, anyone reading this should do a needs assessment. I noticed, Eric, in your last post you acquiesce about the validity of doing a needs assessment. That's not one small detail. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT of this discussion. I hope to see less cookie-cutter responses in this forum in regards to memory purchasing and see more responsible advice to determine one's need, especially for the novice users who are asking the questions and won't do any more fact-finding than the advice given them on this board.
I appreciate the advice of those in past threads who have asked a poster to determine their needs in their RAM buying decisions. In my opinion, that is the best advice they can receive. And I am more than done with this topic, as look at how much I repeated information in this last post that I wrote previously.

AGP SAWTOOTH wont see more than 896mb RAM

It wont see more than 896mb of RAM in any combination of the 4 slots. And whats more, if I put four 256mb chips in, it will only see 512mb. So I currently have 3x256 and 1x128...
This is true with OS 9.1, 10.3 and 10.4...
Any ideas? thx

Hello! Have you checked to see if all the ram is the same spec. i have 4 512 meg pc133 sticks in my Sawtooth and it shows 2 gig of ram. OS 9 will only recognize 1.5 gigs as I understand it. I think that OSX has the ability to "lock out" portions of memory that may be out of spec. Tom

Do I need matching RAM in each slot when upgrading from 2GB to 3GB?

Hi there,
I am looking to upgrade my RAM (see my computer specs below). My MBP has 2x1GB sticks installed. The limit on my machine is 3GB so I only need to replace one of the slots with a 2GB stick. However I've heard that it's recommended to get all the RAM from the same supplier - is that right? Meaning am I better off buying a 3GB kit? I was thinking of purchasing OWC or Crucial brand. Any other recommendations between the two brands?
Here are my specs:
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Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
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Note that you can install 2 x 2 GB sticks. That will give you the (marginal) benefit of a matched pair. Your machine will report in About this Mac that you have 4 GB installed - in fact, your system will only use ~3.2 GB of the RAM (a little more than the 3 GB 'stated' max, but not the full amount installed).
Several months ago, this clearly wasn't worth it - but the price of a pair of 2 GB sticks has come down sufficiently that you may consider that option.

Successful install of 8.1.7 on Solaris 8 with more than 256Mb RAM

To all who have struggled with this one, like me. You owe me a bottle of Rogaine.... but I will accept a bottle of Jack instead.
It appears that the kernel parameters published in the Install Guide are only good for Solaris 8 with up to 256Mb RAM
If dbassist craters at around 80% in OUI with a "Can't connect to Oracle" and you have more than 256Mb on board
DOUBLE the kernel parameters !!!
shmmni = 200
shmseg = 20
semmns = 400
semmni = 200
semmls =200
semopm =200
touch /reconfigure (they don't mention that in the Guide)
reboot
If someone out there can isolate which actual damn kernel parameter is the culprit, I will gladly share some Jack with you.
Otherwise an email to [email protected] with a comment or three will suffice.
Cheers

Sorry to ask a dumb question, but want to be precise, whn you say touch/reconfigure, do you mean touch system.
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Satellite L40-12X - More than 2GB RAM?

Hello,
I was wondering if there's any solution how to enable support for more than 2GB of RAM on Satellite L40-12X notebook? I'm running Vista 32-bit, but every additional MB counts...
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Firefox uses more than 2GB RAM

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I'm using HP laptop with OS Windows 7 Professional edition.
I observed in the task bar that firefox consumes more than 2GB of ram just with 3 or 4 tabs.
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Memory usage is influenced by the type of site you use and the additional software Firefox may be using
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I have a late 2006 model Macbook (13.3 inch Black) running Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.8). Specifics: 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. It is running slowly and freezes/crashes programs (notably MS Word 2008 v. 12.3.5 and iTunes 10). Thinking about getting 4GB of RAM to put off having to buy a new computer. But Apple does not recommend more than 2GB of RAM for this model. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1651#link3. But has anyone else upgraded the RAM and been fine?
I need something that can run iTunes, MS Office, and iLife reasonably well with a minimum of freezing or crashing. I am a music student finishing up my doctorate and need these programs to work well! Perhaps it's just time to upgrade to a new computer? My 2006 Macbook is still plugging along, so I'm hesitant to upgrade unless I have to...
I have 39GB free and 72GB used. Most of my information is stored on my 1TB WD external.

Here's a screen shot of the activity monitor - I'm sure it's very high because I'm using Sophos to scan for anything untoward. I'm not sure how to do a crash dump, though. I can get into Library/Logs/CrashReporter and see individual logs. But the last log is from 3/1...and iTunes alone has crashed probably at least 5x today.
Would 3gb give enough space to the computer to make it worth the effort?

VISTA64 RC1 and more than 2G RAM - finally wo

If creative would lonly listen to people who had problems with XP64, then maybe this would not be an issue in vista....
I have had the same issue with XP64 and an audigy2, and xfi. if you have 4G of ram, then there is no 5. sound. You only get sound through the front left and right. If you disable the ram from 2.75G to 4G then all works well. Apparently, Creative has programmers that still have no idea what a PCI memory hole is. Still. After many people complaining. After they told me they were aware of the problem after I was escaleted to tech support.
Still not fixed.
Well, I did a fresh install of vista rc2 and then installed the latest drivers for the XFI. Lo and behold, I finally get 5. surround sound. In the test, in media center and dolby digital novies, everywhere.
EAX works, all of the environment modes work everything seems to work very well except CMSS 3D. That does not work at all.
Well, this can be similated with EAX to turn stereo into a pseudo surround.
All in all, the first time in many years that creative software seems to work so far.Message Edited by tomb8 on 0-7-2006 07:22 PM

If you're that unhappy with their products, why buy them? Contacting the big retailers isn't going to keep them from carrying Creative's Products.
I don't think they've just "hacked" the previous drivers as the audio is completely rewritten in Vista. I fear that Creative has taken the same approach as some other companies out there and figuring that normal consumers don't have 4Gb of ram.... Then again, normal consumers don't have x64 windows either.
Rember whem Bill Gates said that something like 64K of ram was more than anyone would EVER need? I seem to remeber by the end of that year, 28k was "Too Much"
I think the bottom line here is that if you aren't happy with their products, vote with your wallet -Buy something else. As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy with my Audigy 2zs's and X-Fi. I'm NOT happy with "Software" sound solutions, such as the onboard sound or Turtle Beach's cards; after all, they are only Via chips on a add-in card. Still software sound.

Will elements 9 recognize more than 4gb ram?

why does elements 9 only show 4gb ram when my system (window 7 professional) has 12 gb & how do I get it to recognized it?
Elements Organizer 9.0.3.0
Core Version: 9.0.3 (20110328.m.11320)
Language Version: 9.0 (20100905.m.9093)
Current Catalog:
Catalog Name: My Catalog
Catalog Location: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\My Catalog\
Catalog Size: 73.3MB
Catalog Cache Size: 627.1MB
System:
Operating System Name: 2000
Operating System Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System Architecture: Intel CPU Family:6 Model:14 Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP
Built-in Memory: 4GB
Free Memory: 4GB
Important Drivers / Plug-ins / Libraries:
Microsoft DirectX Version: 9.0
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Adobe Reader Version: 9.4
Adobe Acrobat Version: Not installed
CD and DVD drives:
D: (ASUS DRW-24B1ST BUS: 1 ID: 1 Firmware: 1.01)

To follow up on 99jon's post, 2 to the 32nd power is 4.3Gb. Therefore, PSE will not be able to see more than 4Gb. Win7 will do a great job of managing the installed memory, so there's nothing for you to do but relax and run your applications.
Ken
Message was edited by: photodrawken to correct typo.

Max. RAM in each slot of K7 Master ?

What is the maximum RAM that each DIMM slot in K7 Master (MS-6341 v.1.1; Bios v.1.5) support?
U.Draisbach

U.Draisbach,
This is the best I can tell. You might want to download the latest Manual and see if it says anything about each slot.
Quote
Main Memory
- Supports two 184-pin DDR-DIMM using four memory banks.
- Supports a maximum memory size of 2GB.
- Supports DDR SDRAM DIMM.
Take Care,
Richard

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