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Mar 27, 2006
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Hi,
Am new to this forum, but I thought I would share instead of lurking.
Having just received my new 1 GB RAM from Crucial for my baby (iBook 12" 1.33 GHz) and installing it the cpu wouldn't recognize it. Hhhmmmhh. Much cursing followed until I checked out this site and found Makosuke's comments about installing RAM:
1) Insert RAM as shown in the picure, push firmly into place.
2) When the RAM appears to be properly seated, it is not. Push really, really hard.
3) Do your fingers hurt? A lot? Then you're not pushing hard enough.
4) It's still not in, is it? Try a hammer or something. But don't tell anybody we told you that.
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Good advice man! Thank you soo much!!! I am so happy:D and my baby feels like a new machine
 

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many, (many) years ago, I was learning how to build hardware. While building a Intel-designed 2U server chassis, the guy teaching me says, "now this looks scarry, but you just gotta hit it really hard, and it'll seat" This was a riser card (so you could fit 3 full height add-in cards to a low profile server). Literaly, i'd line up the PCI slot, then slam my fist down on top of the riser assembly. Was scarry the first 20 times, after that, it was kinda fun.. Electronics are sensative, but sometimes ya gotta get physical with them ;)
 
I might be upgrading to 1.5GB soon. Can you tell me how much of a difference it made? How is things as simple as launching Safari and iChat?
 
Here at the photo studio, one of the G4 towers died, so we stripped everything down to factory parts- pulled out 4.5GB of ram and a few HDDs. everything was fixed, but when the RAM was put back in it started Kernel Panicking, so we are testing the RAM stick by stick to see which one os messed up.

In any case, its not my computer, but I was replacing the RAM, and I was being very, very gentle with it. At some point my boss walks buy and goes, no, you have to be firm with it, and smashes it in. I was freaking out, but it worked, so I won't argue. All I have to say is that I nearly wet my pants.

Congrats on the new RAM
 
Felldownthewell said:
Here at the photo studio, one of the G4 towers died, so we stripped everything down to factory parts- pulled out 4.5GB of ram and a few HDDs. everything was fixed, but when the RAM was put back in it started Kernel Panicking, so we are testing the RAM stick by stick to see which one os messed up.
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Surely you jest.. there is no such thing as 4.5GB of ram in any G4 Tower.
 
RGunner said:
Surely you jest.. there is no such thing as 4.5GB of ram in any G4 Tower.
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Eh, maybe it was less, he told me 4.5, but it could have been any number. there were maybe 4 sticks...I'm only an intern, and I'm not there all the time, so honestly I do not know. I would say he maxed out what the G4 tower is capable of, so whatever number that is is what was int hat computer.
 
Felldownthewell said:
Eh, maybe it was less, he told me 4.5, but it could have been any number. there were maybe 4 sticks...I'm only an intern, and I'm not there all the time, so honestly I do not know. I would say he maxed out what the G4 tower is capable of, so whatever number that is is what was int hat computer.
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most G4 towers maxed at 2GB (4x512mb). and some were limited to @1.5GB.....

Only when the G5's came out did the max ram go up :D
 
I had the same problem when I first installed my 1GB stick. I didn't push hard enough because I was afraid of breaking it. Eventually, I got it in and it worked wonders. Glad everything worked out. Welcome to MacRumors! :)
 
SmurfBoxMasta said:
most G4 towers maxed at 2GB (4x512mb). and some were limited to @1.5GB.....

Only when the G5's came out did the max ram go up :D
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You can also install 1 GB sticks. I remember when my dad had Dual G4 1.42 he had 2.5 gigs of RAM
 
SmurfBoxMasta said:
most G4 towers maxed at 2GB (4x512mb). and some were limited to @1.5GB.....

Only when the G5's came out did the max ram go up :D
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:eek: The 4x515mb got me confused... your right, there are 2GB in it

Didn't help that at the same time we were discussing the 6.5GB of RAM in the new G5 that he has...
 
ITASOR said:
I might be upgrading to 1.5GB soon. Can you tell me how much of a difference it made? How is things as simple as launching Safari and iChat?
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Everything is just so much quicker. Even simple things like lauching firefox. Start up is also so much quicker. I almost cried tears of joy :) when i started it up after installing the RAM. I would definitely reccomend it.

I mainly did it because of Photoshop (on an ibook.. I know!) and that is just awesome.

Nice to see that the big G5 power pc boys have started showing off.:D LOL..
 
I found I had to push quite firmly when I installed a 1GB stick into my iBook G4 (had to take out a 256MB stick first). Brought the total up to 1.25GB from 512MB and it was a huge difference, night and day.

Installing the RAM into my iBook was was less stressful than doing the same on my desktop PC, and installing the video card was the worst. I bought an All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro not long after they came out and having to use my fist to seat a $400 video card was not fun. The RAM was a bit of a challenge but doesn't compare to the video card.
 
Yes that is a good advice. I recently updated the RAM on my iBook 1.42 GHz G4 14" and first I didn't installed it correctly. I had to re-open the machine and push really really hard. You wouldn't believe it.

Next thing - there isn't a Airport connector like on all the pictures where installing the RAM is explained.
 
Dr_Maybe said:
Next time you photoshop something like that, make sure that the RAM figure is properly aligned with the other figures :cool:
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The joke's on you - I was at work when I did that up so that was a 10-second job using MS Paint. :eek: :p :D
 
ITASOR said:
I might be upgrading to 1.5GB soon. Can you tell me how much of a difference it made? How is things as simple as launching Safari and iChat?
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I upgraded my ram in my 15" about 2 months after i recieved it. the extra gig makes things SOOO much better. Everything is better. Safari, ichat, iMovie, iPhoto, Photoshop everything
 
~Shard~ said:
The joke's on you - I was at work when I did that up so that was a 10-second job using MS Paint. :eek: :p :D
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:D Style points ~Shard~

CmdrLaForge said:
Next thing - there isn't a Airport connector like on all the pictures where installing the RAM is explained.
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I know, mine didn't have an airport connector either:confused: I assume that's only on earlier models.
 
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