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>From: Marten van de Kraats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Compact Macs)
>Subject: Re: Mac Plus RAM downgrade
>Date: Fri, Apr 19, 2002, 5:16 AM
>
>>On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 01:10 AM, J.S. Garrison wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Does one need to reconnect the clipped resistor when downgrading a Plus
>>>> from 2.5 or 4 mb RAM to 1 mb RAM?
>>>>
>>>> Marten
>>
>>What do you need $1.00 worth of memory for that you must go to the
>>effort of _downgrading_ a Mac Plus?? SIMM's like that can be had by
>>the fistfulls on eBay for nothing.
>
> I've got a mountain of 1 mb 30 pin simms, that is not the issue. The
> issue is startup speed. With 4 mb the plus spends a few seconds to
> long checking its internal memory and since I do not need all this
> memory I want to remove 3 mb in order to increase start up speed.
>
> Marten
Actually, Marten, I only wrote "yes".
The startup timing of a Plus is delayed by the period it takes to get
from the bong and diagonal gray striped screen, to the smooth gray screen
with the arrow at the top left, and then the beginning-to-finalized grinding
of the floppy disk.
If you're suffering extra-long delay, suspect a bad RAM chip. I inherited a
Compaq 286 from a good buddy that took a full ten minutes to begin boot
sequence. I replaced all the RAM and event though a couple of the chips are
4 MB size, mixed with one MB size, it boots the moment the power is applied.
Jeff
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