Emagical Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Hi there, please help me to understand what is going wrong with my machine. What I have: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Motherboard i7-960 3.2GHz 8MB LGA1366 CPU GIGABYTE GV-R6870C-1GD video, Kingston SSD 120GB HyperX SATA3 6G SH100S3/120G system HD 40GB RAM (Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB memory sticks (KHX16C9/8) x4; 4GB memory sticks (KHX1600C9D3/4G) x2) OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard ##### Bootloader Previously I had 32GB of RAM that worked fine (Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB memory sticks (KHX16C9/8) x2; 4GB memory sticks (KHX1600C9D3/4G) x4). Because I constantly use Kontakt’s sound library under Logic I needed to upgrade my RAM to 40 GB. This amount of RAM memory would be enough for me. So, I bought two 8GB sticks and now I have 40 GB RAM inside my machine. The System Profiler shows the 40GB is recognized (see the picture). But when I open Activity Monitor (System Memory page) to see what's going on, I find that the pie graph only shows 32GB (see the picture). What’s wrong? What do I need to do to get Snow Leo to recognize the whole amount (40GB) of RAM, not to ‘see’ 32GB only? Dear professionals, how do I solve my problem? I tried swapping memory sticks into different slots, but it didn’t help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniac10 Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 It's the bootloader's job to tell the system how much ram you've got. You should tell the developer so he can look at your case and fix it (if he can) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Install the latest version of Chameleon. See commit 2203: http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/commit/2203/ Hopefully that fixes this bug for good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emagical Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Install the latest version of Chameleon. See commit 2203: http://forge.voodoop...ce/commit/2203/ Hopefully that fixes this bug for good. Thank you very much for your reply, I appreciate it. I had a look at the link you gave me and I understood that without further advice I won't be able to fix the problem - it's quite complicated for me. Would you mind giving a step-by-step explanation of how I need to install latest Chameleon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 My manual install guide: http://forum.voodoop...x.php/topic,649 You must register to download. There are automated installers around as well, if installing manually seems intimidating to you you can look for those. The bootloader itself comprises of 3 files. Make sure you know exactly where on your drives and partitions those were installed so that you properly replace the old version when upgrading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emagical Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Thank you very much Gringo Vermrlho! Hopefully the problem is solved. ##### 3.10.1 helped me to upgrade Chimera to the latest version1.7.0 r1394 Now Activity Monitor recognize 40GB of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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