Eniak
May 29th, 2008, 06:57 AM
Greetings... I've just made an upgrade on the ram memory of my macbook pro (from 2gb to 4gb). On the OS X it recognized the 4gb ok... Now I booted into Ubuntu 8.04 and the system monitor says I have 3gb of RAM, I'm about to test it on Windows partition.
I think it is a stupid question but, there are years I don't make a RAM upgrade on a machine... The last time I did it was in a time that it was necessary to format the machine and reinstall the OS so it could use the new RAM fine... Is it yet like this? I mean, OS X saw I have 4gb but maybe I need to reinstall it so it could use it really fine, and maybe by reinstalling ubuntu it would see 4gb instead of 3... I'm gonna reboot to WinXP in some minutes and see how's the RAM situation there, well in anyway I'm gonna rip off WinXP and shove Vista 64-bit... But b4 I do that I'd like to know if I'll have to reinstall the other OSs as well.
Thanks for the attention and help in advance.
I think it is a stupid question but, there are years I don't make a RAM upgrade on a machine... The last time I did it was in a time that it was necessary to format the machine and reinstall the OS so it could use the new RAM fine... Is it yet like this? I mean, OS X saw I have 4gb but maybe I need to reinstall it so it could use it really fine, and maybe by reinstalling ubuntu it would see 4gb instead of 3... I'm gonna reboot to WinXP in some minutes and see how's the RAM situation there, well in anyway I'm gonna rip off WinXP and shove Vista 64-bit... But b4 I do that I'd like to know if I'll have to reinstall the other OSs as well.
Thanks for the attention and help in advance.