Doug the Impaler Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 So I have this system: Pentium D 805 (2.66Ghz, running stock with Scythe Samurai Z cooler) Foxconn P9657AA motherboard (P965 chipset with ICH8) GeForce 7600GS SATA HDD and DVD-RW Everything works great...or it did until earlier today. I had 1GB of Patriot DDR2 800 RAM in it that I swapped out for 2 OCZ 667 DDR2 DIMMs. the slower speed doesn't matter because my bus is less than the RAM has potential to fill. So I went to About This Mac to make sure it saw it all...boy did it ever! It now shows 18GB of memory. System Profiler sees some ghosted RAM - 2x 8GB DIMMs of undefined speed along with the 2GB i just installed. WTF happened? The BIOS only shows 2GB. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! edit: Activity Monitor only sees 2GB, and I guess that's what's important. Still, weird! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57047-upgraded-memory-now-seeing-18gb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 As long as it doesn't try to utilize more than what's actually there, you should be fine. It could lock up and cause serious problems if that happened. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57047-upgraded-memory-now-seeing-18gb/#findComment-407546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 Activity Monitor's accurate representation of the memory makes me feel better, as well as the fact that it's behaved just fine as i've used it today. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57047-upgraded-memory-now-seeing-18gb/#findComment-407592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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