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Jan 4, 2015 1:22 AM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by lllaass,★HelpfulThis 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?
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Jan 4, 2015 6:57 AM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by The hatter,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.
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Jan 5, 2015 12:49 PM in response to lllaassby Lorenzo Townsend1,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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Jan 5, 2015 12:52 PM in response to lllaassby Lorenzo Townsend1,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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Jan 5, 2015 12:56 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by dot.com,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??
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Jan 5, 2015 1:37 PM in response to The hatterby Lorenzo Townsend1,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
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Jan 5, 2015 1:38 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by The hatter,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.
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Jan 5, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1
Grant Bennet-Alder
Jan 5, 2015 2:14 PM
in response to Lorenzo Townsend1
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DesktopsFirst, 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:
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Jan 5, 2015 2:23 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by The hatter,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.
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Jan 5, 2015 2:24 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by The hatter,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.
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Jan 5, 2015 2:25 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by Allan Eckert,Memory Clean is the complete inverse of the way the memory manager written by Apple operates. I suggestion uninstall it.
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Jan 5, 2015 2:56 PM in response to Lorenzo Townsend1by Lorenzo Townsend1,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.






