HT205041: Mac mini: How to remove or install memory
Learn about Mac mini: How to remove or install memory
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Feb 23, 2013 11:11 AM in response to RyFoby den.thed,Mac's are very picky!
Exactly which Mac Mini do you have?
And what RAM upgrade did you buy?
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Feb 23, 2013 11:20 AM in response to den.thedby RyFo,Ive Got the Mid 2011 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 and upgraded the memory to 8gb 1333 MHz DDR3
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Feb 23, 2013 11:44 AM in response to RyFoby BDAqua,Got a link to the RAM you bought?
Sometimes reseating new RAM a few times works.
Standard RAM: 2 GB Maximum RAM: 16 GB* Details: By default, 2 GB installed as two 1 GB modules.
*Originally, both the official and actual maximum RAM was 8 GB. However, as confirmed by site sponsor OWC, if running OS X 10.7.5 or higher, updated with the latest EFI, and equipped with proper specification memory modules, this model can support up to 16 GB of RAM.
In the US (and many other countries), site sponsor Other World Computing sells memory -- as well as other upgrades -- for this Mac mini.http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-2-duo-2.4-mid -2010-specs.html
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Feb 23, 2013 11:48 AM in response to RyFoby Linc Davis,Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.
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Mar 7, 2013 10:29 AM in response to den.thedby RyFo,3/7/13 10:16:57 AM [0x0-0x5d05d].com.apple.Safari[519] AVF info: checkDecoderUsage, vaCodecString: <Gen6>
3/7/13 10:16:57 AM [0x0-0x5d05d].com.apple.Safari[519] AVF info: pp_hw_name: RenderingEngine, id: 3ea, m_pp_nowait: 1
3/7/13 10:16:57 AM [0x0-0x5d05d].com.apple.Safari[519] AVF info: RingBufferPool wr:0, rd:26, reset:21, warning:0
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: checkDecoderUsage, vaCodecString: <Gen6>
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: pp_hw_name: RenderingEngine, id: 3ea, m_pp_nowait: 1
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: checkDecoderUsage, vaCodecString: <Gen6>
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: pp_hw_name: RenderingEngine, id: 3ea, m_pp_nowait: 1
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: RingBufferPool wr:0, rd:2, reset:2, warning:0
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: RingBufferPool wr:0, rd:157, reset:151, warning:0
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: checkDecoderUsage, vaCodecString: <Gen6>
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: pp_hw_name: RenderingEngine, id: 3ea, m_pp_nowait: 1
3/7/13 10:19:12 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.Safari[550] AVF info: RingBufferPool wr:0, rd:3, reset:3, warning:0
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