Re: imac g3 (Summer 2000 Indigo) only reflecting 1/2 size of memory installed

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Royal
Mia It could be incompatible RAM. This happens in the black PowerBook G3 range, some RAM (high density or low density, I can never remember which) will only be detected at half its actually rate, something to do with the number of chips. With the PowerBooks you need sticks with chips on

Re: imac g3 (Summer 2000 Indigo) only reflecting 1/2 size of memory installed

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin Hornby
2009/10/1 Simon Royal m...@simonroyal.co.uk Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks there. On 1 Oct 2009, at 00:32, Mia wrote: In the System Info, the Dimm 0 slot only shows 1/2 the value of the memory inserted (i.e. half of 512mb/256mb), and shows no memory inserted in the Dimm1 slot.