![]() But if you have more fortitude than I you could try exchanging the RAM or getting a refund and trying another brand. And perhaps another manufacturers RAM would work fine. Or two, that the RAM Crucial has provided you is defective in some way (doubtful from your testing scenario) or just incompatible with your particular iMac. Macbook pro 13 inch (mid-2009) unibody proc.: 2.26 ghz intel core 2 duo (penryn) ram: currently 2x1gb 1066 MHz Pc3-8500 DDR3 SO-DIMM So in ended up buying this kit from corsair. One, that your particular iMac does not support the amount of RAM you wish to install, PERIOD. In this particular case there are two possibilities. And you are one of the 'lucky' few experiencing an edge case where manufacturing tolerances have conspired to make your iMac one of the unlucky few that don't support more than Apple's Officially Supported specification. There are likely technical reasons why certain Macs only support up to a certain amount of RAM. So putting more RAM in a system that will reportedly work with more than officially supported is not much more than "my cousin Jane put more than the supported amount of RAM in her 2009 iMac and it worked fine."Īpple likely did not set the maximum RAM supported arbitrarily. Usually, the beeps mean that your Mac has detected a problem with its firmware. ![]() The other possibility is a problem with your Mac's firmware. In some models perhaps a lot more than one. It means your Mac can't detect RAM, that RAM modules have come loose, or that the RAM didn't pass a system integrity check. ![]() The "supposed to handle" comes from at least one person reporting that more than the supported amount of RAM worked fine on their Mac. ![]() Now guessing Apple's motivations is generally discouraged here (and celebrated elsewhere.), it is not a stretch to extrapolate why. Apple supports up to a specific amount of RAM in upgradable Macs. Your comment of "supposed to handle" is key here.
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