on 7/29/04 6:30 PM, Liliana Pubill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got two Mac Pluses. One had the 4MB upgrade and the other only > showed 1MB. The one that had the 4MB has the beige color and the other > is gray. I assume the gray is a newer model. The beige has the name > "Macintosh Plus 1MB" I've been familiar with for a long time and the > gray has the "Macintosh Plus" plain and simple which I had never seen > before. Anyway I pulled some memory chips from a broken Mac II and > thought I'd put them in the gray Plus. Turned it on showed 2048K RAM. > Thinking that the memory chips I had pulled from the Mac II were only > 512K each, I switched with the RAM installed in the beige Mac Plus. > Beige keeps saying 4096K but the gray stills says 2048K. What is wrong? > > TIA > > ::::::::: Liliana Pubill :::::: > ::::::::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :::::: > ::::::::: eBay: MacCentris :::::: > Mac G3 333 Beige 256MB, OS 10.2.4 & 9.2.2, 47GB SCSI-UW & 9GB SCSI-UW > with DSL Connection > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's a resistor on the motherboard which must be clipped to allow your other Plus to use all 4 MB. Jeff G -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
