user1121 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I can't search a three letter word here, and wasnt fruitful browsing. I've got a AMD64 Venice setup, running 1 gig (two 512 sticks) of ram, and the deadmoo dd'ed image, unpatched so my SSE3 works. DFI Lanparty NF4 UT Ultra board. Onboard sound works, usb, etc, all but ethernet. About this Mac reads me as having 2 gigs of ram. The seconds I see darwin text when its loading from boot, it clearly reads 1 gig, and system profiler will show 4 out of 6 memory slots filled with 512 sticks. I only have 4 memory slots, and only two of them are filled. Any guesses? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1529-misreading-amount-of-ram/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeasy Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Im having the same problem (well not a problem per se..) Im running amd64 venice on an A8N SLI board, i've got 1 gig of mem and its reporting 2x, its a wierd one but not causing any probs that I can see Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1529-misreading-amount-of-ram/#findComment-9730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SneakerElph Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 im getting the same thing as you guys, only my RAM is 512 and it shows up as 1GB. not really a problem, until a program tries to access anything higher than 512, which hasn't happend yet, but im worried it might. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1529-misreading-amount-of-ram/#findComment-11855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentOrange Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 I think it's an issue with dual channel memory. Maybe it sees the sum of the slots as one logical unit, but multiplies that by the number of slots... I don't know. I have a Gateway with 2x128MB RDRAM, and CPUz in Windows reports it as having 512MB. I'm not running OS X on it anymore, but if I recall correctly, OS X showed 256MB. If you run top from the command line, what does it show for the RAM usage? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1529-misreading-amount-of-ram/#findComment-11966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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