G5 urgent

[Mike James]

Ram is a funny thing. I pull apple’s ram as well.

I recently bought an additional G5. I put 4 gigs of Ramjet.com ram into it after pulling all the apple ram. Now this Ram is specifically made for G5s as you’ll see from their website. These 4 Gigs were previously in my single 1.6 Ghz G5 and all was fine. But I was having constant crashes and couldn’t load a single app without it crashing during install.

So I pulled the 4 gigs of Ramjet ram, put it back into my single 1.6 Ghz G5 and then put the standard apple ram back in the dual 2.5 G5 and wouldn’t you know it everything worked perfectly again. In fact I added 1 Gig of Corsair XMS to the dual G5 which doesn’t even match the 512mb ram that came with the G5, and things have been running flawlessly for two weeks.

So RAM is in fact a funny creature. The single 1.6 Ghz G5 is running perfectly with the same 4 Gigs of ram that the dual G5 wouldn’t run with. Go figure.

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