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DonkyCong

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    Macintosh problem
    « on: September 24, 2008, 01:25:56 PM »
    Hi community,

    I have a Mac here, an old G3 Tower @ 350MHz.
    Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
    I installed  3x 256MB RAM and 1x 128MB RAM, so I should have over 768MB RAM, but it's only showing up as 448MB in the About This Mac page. Previously I had over 512MB RAM installed and it still only showed as 448MB also. I've changed the RAM sticks so I know they are not faulty, the RAM on the board supported is SD-RAM.

    Thanks for your time,
    DC

    p.s. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum.
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    drmsucks



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      Re: Macintosh problem
      « Reply #1 on: September 24, 2008, 03:39:17 PM »
      You'll probably get more response here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html

      Best of luck.
      « Last Edit: September 25, 2008, 10:12:09 AM by drmsucks »
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      Re: Macintosh problem
      « Reply #2 on: September 24, 2008, 05:48:19 PM »
      Quote from: drmsucks on September 24, 2008, 03:39:17 PM
      You'll rpobably get more response here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html

      Best of luck.
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      It sounds like your video card, or system, is taking up the memory. This isnt a problem, and is a usual thing.
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      Re: Macintosh problem
      « Reply #3 on: September 25, 2008, 07:12:01 AM »
      I agree with zylstra.

      The other possibility is that the motherboard on your G3 only supports 384 megs of ram, and anything above that is showing as 448.  I've seen this before on my old gateway desktop (500 mhz, p3)
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