HT3918 I upgraded to 16 mb of ram and after 10 minutes my computer freezes, and ideas?

I upgraded to 16 mb of ram and after 10 minutes my computer freezes, and ideas? I have an imac mid 2011 21 inch.

Cause and effect points to out-of-spec memory.
Run Apple Hardware Test. Run the extended tests.
Using Apple Hardware Test
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
If it fails the memory tests, remove the memory and re-seat it. The sockets are very "tight". Run AHT again.
If it still fails, replace your original memory. If it works, you found the problem. Buy Mac memory from Crucial or OWC / MacSales.

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Its upgradable so that if you choose the 64 bit version of Windows you can do so
and take full advantage of the 4 GB. If your notebook had come pre-installed with
64 bit OS then it would have likely came with the 4 GB already and cost a bit more.
The manufacturers should be a little more clear to people who dont understand
the differences. Your machiine came with 3 GB because they, HP, knew that the 32
bit version of Windows installed would only use and see that amount.
You can leave the 4 GB in. It wont hurt a thing. If you decide to switch to the 64
bit version you will have to start from scratch on the installation. Not recommended
if your not familiar with the process.

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Running Windows Vista Home Premium - Service Pack2
iTunes has always worked beautifully - opened it yesterday and said upgrade was available so I did and upgrade seemed to be successful - no errors and program launches and all my music, TV programs, Movies, etc, were there. Audio works well. Tonight I tried to play a movie and got the Windows iTunes has stopped working and searching for solution (which there is none) and closing the warning box closes iTunes. iTunes used to launch a "separate" black window for my movies/TV - I seemed to get a black background before everything freezes. Not happy. Thanks for any help - I tried to upgrade quicktime just to make sure it wasn't lagging behind the iTunes upgrade but that didn't help.

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I also checked the memory and it showed available memory was over 1.5 GB. I dont have any programms installed and do not have backup yet ( dont really need it anyways)
Problems: first with spinning wheel every 30 seconds and now whole computer just freezes when I restart, it only shows grey screen after the starting sound or it takes about 8 to 10 minutes to restart.
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Try a smc reset:
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I'm running vista ultimate 64bit with the cs6 production suite. I do have some plugins on after effects including the trapcode suite amd optical flares.
Any tips?

graphik wizard wrote:
So heres my problem. A week ago my gtx 295 died. So I got a new gtx 780 and new ram. After installing my new card and installing the latest drivers premier and after effects cs6 crash on the splash screen. Whats wierd is these are the only programs that crash. After effects cs4 works fine along with all my maya stuff. I reinstalled premier and it still crashes for some reason.
I'm running vista ultimate 64bit with the cs6 production suite. I do have some plugins on after effects including the trapcode suite amd optical flares.
Any tips?
graphik wizard,
The only thing I can think of is that Windows Vista is not one of the supported operating systems for Premiere Pro CS6. Only Windows 7 is listed. Is it possible to upgrade your OS?
Thanks,
Kevin

RAM remaining active when not in use and grinding system to hault

Hello there!
The to point, my RAM appears to be acting very strangely and would be very grateful for any explanation/workaround/solution.
I regularly use the RAM intensive application After Effects CS5. I have 16GB (8x2 GB matching pairs) of RAM which has worked fine for the past year or so until now. I usually tell After Effects not to render one frame at a time (no absurd multiprocessing requests) and to leave 6GB of ram free for other applications in its memory preferences. This used to stop AE from gobbling up too much RAM and slowing down the entire system. However, all of a sudden AE has started to disregard its memory settings and proceeds to use all of the available RAM until none is left. I then see my renders grind to a hault and the entire system move the speed of a snail as little to no free RAM remains.
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Below is a screen shot of my idle system with nothing open. The numbers do not add up!
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I would not mind this so much if it was being used by some unseen system resource, and was made free if needed by other apps, but that is the problem. When I load more apps from this state the ram does not clear out and I see the computer struggling and writing page outs/ins even when the amount of ram being used in the list of prcesses is well below 16GB. The mystery process seems to remain active and does not release the ram.
Hatter - I have gone through MANY threads about Adobe not releasing memory. I have been using AE for years and never and very aquainted with the best settings to use for rendering in accordance with available ram, processors, and fast drives. Many of them complain about inactive memory not being released and Apple's memory management. This is more of an oddity as until now everything has been fine. I am doing a render of the sort I have done hundreds of times in the past with this system.
My problem is that this started happening all of a sudden for no apparent reason. AE allows one to control how much ram it uses and how much is left for other applications. I keep this at the Adobe forum suggested 6GB, and until a few days ago it would leave 6GB free. The render would progress smoothly, no need for page outs, no maxing of the ram. A simple render.
Now the same simple renders max out all of the RAM despite my telling AE not to use it all. Changing the memory use settings seems to make no difference no difference at all and I gradually see the ram fill out to maximum and then the page in/outs go through the roof, the render taking 4-5 times as long as previous.
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I want to upgrade my macbook pro's ram from 4 to 6 or 8gb. mine is mid 2010 macbook pro..

i want to upgrade my macbook pro's ram from 4 to 6 or 8gb. mine is mid 2010 macbook pro..
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After a ram upgrade to 8 GB mini does not start, control led is blinking and interval tut....tut is hearing..???, After a ram upgrade to 8 GB mini does not start, control led is blinking and interval tut....tut is hearing..???

Hello,
i tried to change the RAM on my Mac mini 2011 up to 8 GB RAM.
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Tone(s)    Description
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14) Known Problems
==================
Sometimes when booting from a floppy disk the following messages scroll up
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X:8000
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BX:8600
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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Some heat may be possible just because the components are more dense. I would note the following:
1. Heat of laptops is normal to a point:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30612
2. You can use the hardware test disk that came with your machine to run an extended test and see if it detects anything wrong. Does not mean the RAM is good or bad if it detects nothing. But if it does detect something wrong, then it is.
3. I've seen Blue and White G3 RAM go bad, and overheat so that it is too hot to touch. So any RAM can go bad at anytime, and even high quality RAM can too. Try replacing the RAM if you are seeing behavior with the machine that would not be considered normal under an erase and install (backup your data first), and it seems to happen when the heat gets more. Make sure when you get RAM, it is too spec:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.html
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