I have a fifteen inch imac g4 with 800 MHZ processor speed. It has two slots of ram with 256 MB in each slot. I upgraded the factory slot to 512 MB low density ram from ebay and it doesn't work!! The system profiler says that the slot is empty. I put it back in three times and it still didn't recognize it (although it did recognize the 256 MB). I'm confused. Please help. I can't stand a sluggish comp.
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iMac G4 ram doesn't work
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Then buy a new one. The 800mhz cpu is going to be a bottleneck even with maxed out ram.
oh. no. I can't stand parting with my beloved imac G4.
You're running an older mac in an unsupported OS. Speed is not something you can expect.
You said it's low density? That means it will have the chips on both sides of the module. The ones you buy one ebay will be a hit or miss.