iMac Frustration
Feb. 13th, 2007 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisThe 512 MB SoDIMM for my iMac (15" flat screen, 800 MHz) arrived this afternoon.
According to everything I read, I should simply be able to pop out the 256 MB DIMM in the easily accessed socket in the bottom of the iMac and insert the newer 512 MB DIMM: the memory should be recognized instantly when the machine boots.
No such luck. The machine only recognizes 256 MB of the new 512 MB DIMM; with the already installed 256 MB DIMM in the internal slot, my machine still has only 512 MB instead of a proper total of 768 MB.
I'm still searching Google for ideas as to what might be happening and/or how to fix it, but my suspicion is that the installed DIMM isn't actually appropriate for this architecture. It's that or the beast doesn't like mixed density RAM.
Any ideas? I'm open to any suggestions.
According to everything I read, I should simply be able to pop out the 256 MB DIMM in the easily accessed socket in the bottom of the iMac and insert the newer 512 MB DIMM: the memory should be recognized instantly when the machine boots.
No such luck. The machine only recognizes 256 MB of the new 512 MB DIMM; with the already installed 256 MB DIMM in the internal slot, my machine still has only 512 MB instead of a proper total of 768 MB.
I'm still searching Google for ideas as to what might be happening and/or how to fix it, but my suspicion is that the installed DIMM isn't actually appropriate for this architecture. It's that or the beast doesn't like mixed density RAM.
Any ideas? I'm open to any suggestions.
