Comments on: Installing 4 Gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 RAM into a Macbook that won’t take it…

By: Dafunk

Dafunk — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:12:50 +0000

Thanks mate i save my new memorys with this article!

By: club penguin

club penguin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:30:36 +0000

Thank you for the article. Good read.

By: HollowMan

HollowMan — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:09:14 +0000

BRILLIANT! You just saved me about 100euros… Thank you very much!

Changing the SPD of one of the memory sticks to 667 instead of 800 fixed my problem and now i’m running my Mac with 2x2GB Kingston HyperX of 800Mhz @ 667Mhz.

By: Manu

Manu — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:29:30 +0000

SPD tool won’t work, tried it on my mac (XP) and on vista and im having this exact problem! Any other ideas? Could it be the memory?

By: Apoorv Khatreja

Apoorv Khatreja — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:42 +0000

Thanks for the tip, dude. But flashing the RAM and stuff makes me feel weird and I’d rather not do it. What I’ve done is purchased just a single slot of 2 GB DDR2 800 Mhz RAM, which I run with one of my old 1 GB DDR2 667 Mhz RAM. This works fine.

My question is – will it also work fine if I purchase another 2 GB slot that is 667 Mhz? That will effectively mean I have 2x2GB = 4 GB of RAM, but one slot manufactured with a clock speed of 667 Mhz, and the other 800 Mhz. Will this setup work without the need of flashing?

By: Milda Klepacki

Milda Klepacki — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:31:40 +0000

Hi, I read all your posts, keep them coming.

By: david

david — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:16:03 +0000

Cool, not it’s good for the feed back and input.

What I meant is that Mac just makes life easier for everything, nothing really to do with the EFI technology. Windows just doesn’t make a computer easy to use. I mean look at Office 2007 with the new ribbon interface. You need to go through menus upon menus to get something you want to change. Where as in Pages, you have your Inspector and that’s all you really need to format something.

This is by the way, a solution to the problem, there are others that do not need Windows.

Mac as a whole, just makes life easy with simple menus, easy to navigate and get the job done quicker and with less hassle. Why would someone every change to something that is more time demanding to use? That’s just my 2 cents.

By: Brad -_-

Brad -_- — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:12:00 +0000

Cool, thanks for the info mate. Very useful.

However, your comment – “will never use Windows again as my primary computer, it just makes life so easy” just made me laugh after reading this.

Seriously, “because Macs don’t use the 40 year old bios technology”, like thats a good thing? You need to go through all this effort AND use Windows to get it working…

I’m not criticising your work here Just an observation.

Thanks again,

Brad

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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:44:46 +0000

Thanks for the info… RSS feed added

By: -

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:43:13 +0000

Good post, adding it to my blog now, thanks