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    Ram not reading?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Blinged Out, Apr 29, 2011.

  1. Blinged Out

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    hi installed 4gb ram 2 x 2 but only 1 is reading the other isnt what to do?
     
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    what is listed in Apple System Profiler (Apple Menu -> About This Mac -> More Info) under memory?
     
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    bank 0/dimm0 2gb ok
    bank 1 / dimm1 empty
     
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    try to change their place with each other and see what will be.

    EDIT: And please CHECK THAT YOU REALLY PUT 2-ND STICK CORRECTLY SO YOU CAN'T SEE PINS. I know a guy who created a thread where people tried to help him about his RAM for couple pages. At the end someone told him to replace and put it back again (which would be a third time) and only then it worked! That guy who suggested that also placed his own memory with success in the same model of laptop only on 3-rd time! Palmhand.
     
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    yes im definite i put them on the right side because you can only put it on one side or else it won't fit, however i shall try swapping them
     
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    its probably not fully inserted in the slot correctly since it thinks nothing is there.
     
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    No-no, I mean push RAM stick inside to the end so you wouldn't see any part of pins that are not pushed fully inside. They may not to have a connection with motherboard if you won't do that However I understand that probably you did that fine and perhaps that ram is just faulty. I just want to predict ALL possibilities no matter how noob they are :)
     
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    it still doesnt work i took them out again i just want to know is the top or bottom one the bank 1?
     
    Blinged Out, Apr 30, 2011
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    not sure... probably 0 on the bottom and 1 on top.

    You can try to run just 1 stick at a time... see which one works right by itself... also try each one by itself in each slot. See if its a ram problem or a slot problem. Its probably just a bad stick of ram if you've inserted it a few times and it still doesn't work.
     
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