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My 2006 Mini supports 3Gb, with each chip being 2Gb. No idea why your's doesn't. With the broken audio, have you checked that you plugged the audio board back in?
 
I did nothing special. Just put the ram in and started it up. Are you sure you have the correct ram type?
 
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