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...
PeterA

At the moment, your laptop can run up to 3GB Ram. However, it will not make much differences as the chipset X3100 cannot do as much as we expect.

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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.

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.

Firefox uses more than 2GB RAM

Hi,
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.
Could you please let me know what are the memory tweaks or steps to reduce the memory consumption???
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Memory usage is influenced by the type of site you use and the additional software Firefox may be using
* see [[high memory usage]]
Do your tabs include for instance massive webmail databases, or High Definition video.
If you key into the location bar ''about:memory'' you will open an interactive page about memory usage, that should be more informative than the Windows task Manager.

GeForce 7300 GT with more than 2GB RAM?

I had a lot of crashes with my MP and had original 2x512MB & Kingston's 2x1GB installed.
I contacted Kingston's support when Rember caused kernel panic every time I tried to test memory with it.
They said that it is "known issue" that 7300gt does not work with current drivers with openGL applications and more than 2GB memory installed.
But my MP kept having kernel panics with rember (and with lots of other applications)without any openGL involved. I even ran Rember with Finder closed.
With only 2x512 or only 2x1 installed everything seems to be fine, except that there's not enough memory to use FCS efficiently.
Anybody had same problems?
Is this really "known issue"?
If it is, when is solution available?
MP+GF7300gt have been on the market over half a year now.
Any links and references would be appreciated.
I didn't find anything from apple's website and will be calling apple's support tomorrow...

I have 4 GBs installed in my Mac Pro w/7300 card. No problems whatsoever.
For best performance from quad-channel interleaving you may want to install either six additional 512 MB DIMMs (four in Riser A and four in Riser B) or two more 512 MB DIMMs (in Riser A) and four 1 GB DIMMs (in Riser B.)
In your current configuration I believe you should have two 512 MB DIMMs in Riser A and two 1 GB DIMMs in Riser B.
See Memory (FB-DIMM) Replacement Instructions.

Mac Pro 2.66 crashing with more than 2GB ram

I curently have a base config of 1GB ram (2 512MB chips), the systems runs fine, I then added memory in various configs and it always kernel panics when I exceed 2 GB. System runs fine until i try something memory intensive like Aperture or Photoshop.
tried
4 x 512MB chips (2GB) = perfect
6 X 512MB chips (3GB) = crash
2 x 512MB and 2 x 2GB (5GB) = crash
2 X 2GB (4GB) = crash
I have tried only riser 1, still crashes even with only the 4GB running. All memory is genuine apple and passes the hardtest CD.
Any help much appreciated
cheers

Agreed.
If you cannont get the memory to fail when only one or two pairs is in a given riser then it will be very difficult to diagnose and you'd have to suspect either a riser or mainboard problem.
You do know that memtest will only test up to 2GB unless you buy the $0.99 version 4.14 though right? Lower versions shouldn't KP though, should just allocate 2GB and test.
If it fails in both the following combinations:
Riser A - 2x 512
Riser B - 2x512, 2x 512
Riser A - 2x 512, 2x 512
Riser B - 2x512
then I suppose I'd be suspecting hardware failure on the motherboard. BY the way, both risers boards are identical, you can swap Riser A for Riser B and still have a working system if it helps in your tests.
I just went through the same thing, fortunately I had only 2 pairs (2x1GB) to work with...so I labelled the chips ABCD and worked the combinations through the risers A and B to determine that failure followed a given FBDIMM....after I'd done all this and found the suspected FBDIMM, I powered up the machine with the cover off for a change and found the red lights...did I feel silly then

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I tried to install 4GB Ram on an G20-106 but not even the BIOS would load. Newest BIOS-version (v1.40) is running. Is there really a 2GB Limit on this machine, and if so, why?

Hi mate,
yes, the machine is only able to handle 2GB of RAM because its an chipset limitation. The chipset is an 915PM from intel and you can read about the limitation when clicking on the following link: http://www.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/915PM/915PM-overview.htm
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Anyway to get more than 2GB Ram in my MDD Dual 867?

Didn't know if there was a workaround to get my MDD G4 to recognize 1GB memory modules.
I know that there are some workarounds for other issues like big HDs on the pre MDD Powermacs, so I was hoping there might be a workaround for this.

For typical use, yes-2 gigs is plenty. There are certain factors,though, that would necessitate a higher volume of memory, such as using Final Cut Studio or other pro level applications. Of course the more non-pro apps you a running, the more memory you will use but most apps only use a few megabytes each and there is a portion of your hard drive that is allocated for virtual memory anyway.
I hear that the Mac Pro needs more memory to run smoothly. In the Mac Pro thread there are those who constantly complain about how slow their Mac Pro's run with only 2 gigs of memory while 4 gigs is considered the "sweet spot". Maybe it's a hardware thing?
I am currently only running 756 MB and everything seems fine, FCE would probably run a little more smooth (I hope) when I eventually get around to upgrading to 2 gigs, but outside of that every works fine.

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

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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
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3) Task Sequence simply stops after installing CMclient. No errors - it simply stops.
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error on both m93p and M83. At least not the BSOD on the M93p ;-)
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the same problem.
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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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Anyone else had problems rolling computers with more than 8GB og RAM?
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Why does it only affect machines with more than 8GB RAM?
How to get rid of the 0x87D00269 error?
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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 -
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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.)

I can't download an app as it says there is insufficient space but when I look on settings there is more than 2GB storage available and the app is only 1

I can't download an app as it says there is insufficient space but when I look on settings there is more than 2GB storage available and the app is only 1

An app can need twice the quoted space just during the installation. That could be the problem. It's easy enough to offload some stuff for the insyallation then sync it back.

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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.
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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.

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