I Have and 2007 Mac Pro dual core, and I'm out of memory, purchased 2 2g of ram today and put it into my Mac. It says it has 8 G but it doesn't seem like it's
running correctly. I have the two 2 G's and 4 1 G's and 2 2 512mb cards.
I Put the two 2 G's in the first slots in the card A after that I place 1 G cards. The bottom card has the remainder 2 1G's cards and then the two 512. Have done some incorrectly. Help.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
This says where they should go:
Mac Pro (Mid 2012 and earlier): How to remove or install memory - Apple Support
What makes you think that it is not running correctly?
What specific memory did you purchase?
This says where they should go:
Mac Pro (Mid 2012 and earlier): How to remove or install memory - Apple Support
What makes you think that it is not running correctly?
What specific memory did you purchase?
Discard the 2 x 512MB DIMMs, they add heat and offer little in performance.
Move your system onto a 256GB SSD $133 will give the best improvement in performance.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U/
http://www.amazon.com/Icy-Dock-EZConvert-2-5-Inch-Converter/dp/B002Z2QDNE/
Seeing how 2x2GB kits are $23 I would get another set.
http://www.amazon.com/Certified-Memory-MA356LL-BUFFERED-PC2-5300/dp/B006E3L542/
Out of memory? or out of disk space? and when did you last upgrade your drives?
Also putting data on separate drive makes sense and helps performance.
To clone and move or setup a system drive, use Carbon Copy Cloner.
Apple menu > About This Mac > ( More Info ) > Report > Memory
will give you a report like this one, hopefully with all modules present at their correct sizes and all error-free:
this graphic courtesy anandtech.com
Ok, first thing Thank you for your help. My Mac is a 2x2.66 GHz Dual core
intel Xeon
I now have * GB of 667 MHz /DDr2 FB DIMM only had 5 before
I was like a switch was turn off, it just started to run slow and the
spinning ball of death was have a field day. it was spinning all the time.
had a little mix up with Fry's but i purchased 4 GB of ram with plans to
purchase 4 more.
However with the extra ram it still is running the slow, the ball is don't
up as often but it still runs. It's and old machine I know but it was
running find.
I'm a Video Photographer and Editor and I need this to keep working. I run
Adobe CS6 suite on it and only one program will not run on it mainly
because it only runs the next OS I have and only can advance to the 10.7. 5
OS.
At first I thought I was putting the ram in the wrong order. Someone help
me to find out if the ram was working and they are all working. I also
found out that I have 4 sticks of 512 ram not just 2. I going to try and
afford 2 more 2GB of ram. I hope this will help.
What do you think?
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Ok, first thing Thank you for your help. My Mac is a 2x2.66 GHz Dual core intel Xeon
I now have * GB of 667 MHz /DDr2 FB DIMM only had 5 before
I was like a switch was turn off, it just started to run slow and the spinning ball of death was have a field day. it was spinning all the time. had a little mix up with Fry's but i purchased 4 GB of ram with plans to purchase 4 more.
However with the extra ram it still is running the slow, the ball is don't up as often but it still runs. It's and old machine I know but it was running find.
I'm a Video Photographer and Editor and I need this to keep working. I run Adobe CS6 suite on it and only one program will not run on it mainly because it only runs the next OS I have and only can advance to the 10.7. 5 OS.
At first I thought I was putting the ram in the wrong order. Someone help me to find out if the ram was working and they are all working. I also found out that I have 4 sticks of 512 ram not just 2. I going to try and afford 2 more 2GB of ram. I hope this will help.
What do you think?
Are you sure the sticks of memory are ECC type memory - Mac Pro's need to have ECC memory. What does the memory pane in System Information show for your memory (like the above image from Grant Bennet-Alder??
Dear Hatter
Move your system onto a 256GB SSD $133 will give the best improvement in performance.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U/
http://www.amazon.com/Icy-Dock-EZConvert-2-5-Inch-Converter/dp/B002Z2QDNE/
I am a photographer and Video Editor, I have very little computer experience. The above information is above me. I like the idea of better performance but I have no idea where to start with the information you gave me. I you can give me information about the upgrade I would love to look into do it.
I will be replacing the 512 MB cards as soon as I can
Do not use 512GB DIMMs.
Ideal is set of matched four DIMMs in A1:2 plus B1:2 ie 4 x 2GB and I would skip FRY's and go to Amazon where NINX goes for $22 for 2x2GB.
(FBDIMMs only come in "ECC") and mixing non-ECC with ECC is a no-go.
Above is the only information I have, I started out with 5 GM ram and add 3 more and it is still running sluggish. The beach ball is having a field day on my screen.
First, put 'Memory Clean' aside and just use Activity Monitor. There is no advantage to having idle free memory, when the memory used for Inactive memory (mostly buffer previous disk Reads) can be freed instantly to provide free memory. Inactive memory also provides some speedups if you re-read certain data.
Second, make certain you have adequate Backups, because one strong indicator if impending Drive failure is the constant beachball. How old and what size is your boot drive?
The hatter has jumped two steps ahead along this same 'replace your Drive' line and suggested that you consider upgrading to a Boot-only drive on an SSD. This article has more discussion on the subject:
Look around! people just clone the system to SSD (with adapter) and bang, that is it.
But you can do better. The Samsung XP941 128 or 256GB device
and Lycom adapter for $24, put it in 4x or 8x PCIe slot and be blown away. Bootable, and that is fast, and rare for a Mac Pro 1,1 (bootable PCIe cards are next to non-existent).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MYCQP38/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1& smid=A2IRJS1D1489E6
again just look on Amazon along with FBDIMMs.
And at this point, cloning a system should be 2nd nature. Plus using an SSD has been around for 8 yrs, there are new threads every day and basically the same cookbook. Cloning is cloning. just buy a copy of CCC.
you can't just add "3 more" usually, 3GB more? 2 x 1GB plus 2 x 512MB? maybe.
Mixing FBDIMMs is crazy sometimes. And buying and using 1GB and 512MB? not when a 4GB kit is $22.
Memory Clean is the complete inverse of the way the memory manager written by Apple operates. I suggestion uninstall it.
Hello everyone, thank you for all of your help in trying to fix my problems. Grant Bennet_Alder has suggested, disk space may be my main problem. As I got your email this image showed up on my screen
so it would seem I need to get a lager hard drive or do the boot drive as you suggested. I may be able to get the parts and put them in myself with help ( you and maybe youtube ) but moving data could be above my pay scale. Can you give me an idea what I should do.
just fire up Carbon Copy Cloner, it is easy to use and follow and has improved its user interface; lets you select or unselect user folders (if moving the system, keep the core user Library of course).
Leave your current drive as is, but do try to copy and delete some to free up space, you should not be using it as is.
Clone the system.
You can manually use the Finder and copy the entire "/Users/my-home-user-account/" to another drive.
WD Black 2TB are excellent and downright affordable.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Cache-Desktop-WD2003FZEX/dp/B00FJRS628/
A 256GB SSD would be more than adequate and easy to do.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XP941-256GB-PCIe-MZHPU256HCGL/dp/B00J9V53M6/http://www.amazon.com/Lycom-DT-120-PCIe-Adapter-Support/dp/B00MYCQP38/ref=sr_1_1 ?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1420479453&sr=1-1&keywords=lycom+m.2+pcie+ssd+to+pcie +3.0+x4+adapter
http://www.amazon.com/Lycom-DT-120-PCIe-Adapter-Support/dp/B00MYCQP38/
Old Mac Pro
