nyjets12 Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 My machine is working great, stable and both cores are working, the only thing that is not detected correctly in "About This Mac" is the memory is reported as "2 GB 0 MHz SDRAM" The total is correct, only the speed of the DDR II memory is incorrect.. I am constantly looking through the forum, but maybe I missed a patch or even a beta release of semthex's kernel that would correct this. If anyone knows please reply or PM ? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34834-about-this-mac-shows-wrong-memory-info/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 About this Mac is just the first little window. When you click the More Info... button, you are firing up the app called System Profiler in the Utilities folder. Very few people have RAM speed being reported. Why is it so important? System Profiler is just a reporting application and it is having problems with getting info under the new system. If doesn't mean anything is wrong with your hardware. Memory speed is set in BIOS. It is the same as your FSB speed. In System Profiler, click on the Hardware item and read bus speed. That is your current memory speed. Or go to Terminal and type: sysctl hw.busfrequency hw.physmem This will tell you what the OS thinks your current bus speed and memory size is. None of this has anything to do with the maximum speed your RAM is capable of running. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34834-about-this-mac-shows-wrong-memory-info/#findComment-247249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyjets12 Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 About this Mac is just the first little window. When you click the More Info... button, you are firing up the app called System Profiler in the Utilities folder. Very few people have RAM speed being reported. Why is it so important? System Profiler is just a reporting application and it is having problems with getting info under the new system. If doesn't mean anything is wrong with your hardware. Memory speed is set in BIOS. It is the same as your FSB speed. In System Profiler, click on the Hardware item and read bus speed. That is your current memory speed. Or go to Terminal and type: sysctl hw.busfrequency hw.physmem This will tell you what the OS thinks your current bus speed and memory size is. None of this has anything to do with the maximum speed your RAM is capable of running. Thanks Rammjet.. in System Profiler it shows 0 MHz sysctlhw.busfrequencyhw.physmem shows: root# sysctl hw.busfrequency hw.physmem hw.busfrequency: 1064000000 hw.physmem: 2147483648 Not sure if it matches.. but that is ok.. whatever it is I can live with it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34834-about-this-mac-shows-wrong-memory-info/#findComment-247263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 hw.busfrequency: 1064,000,000 = 1064 MHzhw.physmem: 2,147,483,648 / 1028 = 2.0 GB I added punctuation to show the true values. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34834-about-this-mac-shows-wrong-memory-info/#findComment-247267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyjets12 Posted December 3, 2006 Author Share Posted December 3, 2006 I added punctuation to show the true values. Thanks.. always appreciate your help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34834-about-this-mac-shows-wrong-memory-info/#findComment-247274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspr Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Or go to Terminal and type: sysctl hw.busfrequency hw.physmem This will tell you what the OS thinks your current bus speed and memory size is. Hi, in terminal I can see the correct frequency (400 - 2GB RAM) but could you tell me if it's possible to import this value in System Profiler ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34834-about-this-mac-shows-wrong-memory-info/#findComment-247447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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