G5 Dual 2.0 ram ?s and others
Good day all. Please bear with me as I am not a computer geek and I have just made the switch to a Powermac G5 dual 2.0 machine. Bought it used for $495 shipped and it was loaded with programs such as Adobe CS3 professional. Anyway, the guy that owned it before me removed his files and in doing so erased some critical files such as Safari, couldn't get on the internet. He had sent Tiger cds so I took my Leopard CD from my Macbook and try to patch things up while keeping the programs. When I rebooted my password wouldn't work so after talking with Apple support they told me I needed to reinstall Leopard so I did and things were fine except all programs were lost. Then I wanted to look and see what I had in the way of ram, it said 5.5 gigs, and in looking I found that there were 7 gigs, 6x1gig and 2x512 gig, so I figured some were not working. I found the pairs that were not working although I didn't try to find which one in the pair weren't working, and pulled them. So now the system says 4 gigs. My questions are 1) would running the 1 gig and 512 that were still good work? 2) could I get just one 1gig and 1 512 and run them paired with the other two that are still good and if so would they have to be the same as far as manufacturer and all?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
rauler83