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RAM and the quad---problems?
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Bill Kinkle
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Apr 30, 2006, 09:03 AM
 
I bought a Quad in December and I am on my 3rd round of RAM from OWC. Are their any known issues with RAM compatibility and the Quad G5? I initially bought 4 GB's in 1 GB DIMM configs. I left the 2 256 chips in there and added the 4 gig chips. My machine went crazy, fan blowing really loud, audio very choppy, video not playing. I ran the hardware tester and it came up showing a bad chip. I sent the pair back. The machine works fine with the first 2 1 gig chips. I got a replacement pair and put them in and the same screwy things happened. I thought it was possibly the slots so I took out the original 512 (2 256 pair) out and replaced them with the newer chips, same thing. So now I am sending them back and waiting for a replacement. Anyone know of any issues like this? Is it possibly my machine? Thanks.
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Apr 30, 2006, 02:32 PM
 
As long as you are installing RAM in pairs, I don't see what the problem could be. I think you are just getting bad RAM. Probably just unlucky.
     
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May 2, 2006, 10:32 PM
 
What type of DIMMs are you using, and from which source are they?

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