kpeterk said:
Does anyone have any information about the slots in my computer? Why do I have 2 banks of 4 slots in my G5 1.6? I thought there was supposed to be less (2 banks of 2)?
I just replied to another query about this in another thread, but just in case you don't see that...this has been reported before (on Apple's Discussion forums) by another user who bought a refurbed 1.6GHz G5. It looks like Apple may be selling refurbed 1.6 units which may have originally been single 1.8 systems (hence the motherboard with 8 RAM slots instead of 4). I don't think System Profiler can tell you whether your expansion slots are PCI or PCI-X (thus confirming that the motherboard is from a 1.8 system and not some totally bizarre 1.6 board with 8 slots), but there may be another way to trace your system's ancestry. Does anyone know which system serial numbers correlate with which system models?
With regards to your other questions, I know this is getting to be a very familiar answer, but I bought 2 x 512MB sticks of Crucial RAM for my 1.6GHz G5 and it has been rock solid since the upgrade (about 5 months now). I had no problem getting Crucial to deliver to me in Sydney, Australia either (it took about a week to get here). I did run into trouble earlier with another 1.6GHz G5 unit using Apacer DDR333 modules and Kingmax DDR333 modules, but it may have had nothing to do with the RAM. That G5 was incredibly unstable no matter what RAM I had in it, and it was returned to Apple DOA after only 6 days...I have had no RAM problems with the replacement (current) system though using Crucial (Crucial is actually what Apple shipped it with for the 2 x 128MB modules).