Hi, thanks for this - unless I'm looking in the wrong place, all this tells
me is that I have 32 Megs of RAM, but not how it is configured so I still
need to know what upgrade card to buy... I'm open to being corrected
though! Rick
>Try going under the apple menu,click on apple system profiler, that should
>tell you what ram is in there, without opening it up
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>on 9/10/02 3:08 PM, Rick McCutcheon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Hi PBListers,
>>
>> I'm about to open my PB1400c/117/32 for the first time (yippee!). Never
>> done it before, but readiing the manual seems to indicate that it's not
>> difficult.... (if I can tear apart and rebuild a Rochester carb, surely I
>> can handle a 1400? :-{)....
>>
>> Anyway, my reason for opening it is to determine the configuration of the
>> current 32 Megs of Ram in preparation for maxing it out to 64. Eventually
>> leading to a G3 card.
>>
>> **Will it be clear once I get inside what the configuration is? Does each
>> card say something obvious like 24RAM on it?**
>>
>> I assume if I'm lucky, the previous owner will have had 12 standard and
>> added a 24 to get to 32. This would leave me to get a 32 Meg card. If
>> there was 16 originally it would have either another 16 meg card or two 8s
>> (is there even an 8Meg card option?).
>>
>> The worst scenario would be for there to be two 12Meg cards already filling
>> the expansion slots, which would mean taking one out and putting in 32 for
>> a total of 56 is this correct? Or is there such thing as a 40 Meg Ram card
>> (I've never heard of such a beast). I have seen a 48 Meg card, and that
>> would add up to 60Megs with the original 12 - or 64 if it started out with
>> 16 - am I missing something?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Rick
>>
>>
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