[G4] G4 Memory

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

What are the specifics on your machine, in terms of crashing. Do you  
mean a kernel panic...? When where , etc... Like someone said having  
just the minimum amount of ram should not cause your computer to be  
crashing, something else is causing the trouble.   It is surprising  
that Mac os 10 let you install with such a low firmware number...



To check for memory prices try this place http://www.ramseeker.com/    
As a general rule of thumb always buy a much ram as you can afford.   
2- 128 and 2 - 256 is not a very good way to upgrade you memory...

You computer only has 4 ram slots, each can hold a maximum of 512MB.  
The current way that you are upgrading is not such a good idea,  
because if you ever need to add  more ram you would have to remove  
some of the smaller modules to make the upgrade , which is wasting  
money because getting your money back out of small memory modules is  
tough. So you would be essentially throwing away what you paid for  
the smaller memory modules. So in other words you should be looking  
to buy 1-512 MB memory module, and still keeping room for future  
upgrades while still using the memory you have. You will never need  
to worry about having to remove a 512 module after installing it...


Also buy PC-133 memory, which is compatible with your system... Why,  
you might ask would I want to buy PC-133? The reason is because if  
you ever would come across a newer G4 you could simply remove the  
memory from you current system and install it in to the newer G4,  
with no trouble...(Up to the Quicksilver series)


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.



On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Linda Sawtelle wrote:

> Does anybody have (for a reasonable price) 2 256MB memory that I  
> can add
> to my G4 to see if it helps it from crashing. I have searched  
> pricegrabber
> but am not sure which brand will work in the mac or if any of them  
> work so
> maybe someone has some laying around that they know works but they  
> don't
> need?
>
> I had heard that it might be the firmware but there is only System  
> 10.3.7
> installed on it and the firmware upgrade requires system 9 and I  
> prefer
> not to have to reinstall all the system software . Somone said that a
> memory upgrade will help the crashing???
> I have 2 in it now:
>   Size:	128 MB
>   Type:	SDRAM
>   Speed:	PC100-222S
>
> Hardware:
>   Machine Model:	Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)
>   CPU Type:	PowerPC G4  (2.8)
>   Number Of CPUs:	1
>   CPU Speed:	400 MHz
>   L2 Cache (per CPU):	1 MB
>   Memory:	256 MB
>   Bus Speed:	100 MHz
>   Boot ROM Version:	3.1.3f1
>
> Linda