I thought I'd bump it up to 4mb but then I was a little concerned that
if the RAM didn't work, I'd have cut the resistor to allow for 4mb and
be left with a brick. Let me think on that, and seriously thanks for
the offer.

On Jun 28, 3:47 pm, JoelK <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 28, 8:17 am, "Wesley Furr" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If it will handle parity chips, I've probably got some around somewhere (of
> > of PC's) that I could spare...  I always assumed Mac's had to have
> > non-parity...
>
> > Wesley
>
> I have all 4MB SIMMs in my IIci and I used to have all 8MB SIMMs in
> the IIci
> and the SE/30, which gave that one like 128MB or something ridiculous
> like that.
>
> You might go for that rather than just 1MB SIMMs, and maybe also
> upgrade to
> 7.5.3 like me, now that it's free.  You'll find a lot of improvements
> over OS 6.
> I also got a video card out of an 8100/80 PPC that work fine in the
> machine and
> found a DayStar 68x030 or 040 upgrade card that fit in the Cache slot,
> which left
> me with a Cache card...  I really need to get on the Swap List...
>
> Regarding the SIMMs, I've used the same 30-pin units in all kinds of
> old Macs
> (IIci, IIsi, SE/30, LC II, etc, etc.), as well as some Sun
> SparcStation 3's and they
> all came from a huge pile of old PCs I had.  Parity is preferable to
> non-parity in
> every machine that supports them, as it adds a level of redundancy and
> supposedly
> improves performance.  The only people who would disagree are maybe
> folks trying to sell
> you non-parity SIMMs...
>
> About the random restarts, try opening it up and pulling the PSU.  It
> could be
> a connection issue and after you test the voltages (like the other guy
> suggested),
> you can clean the connectors and re-seat it, which may solve the issue
> too.  Another
> idea is re-installing the OS, and maybe swapping out the power cable
> (this has worked for me).
>
> Hope this helps.  My IIci didn't power up the last time I tried it, so
> I may be in a similar
> situation and the possible causes are manifold.  I also have a huge
> bag of 1-4MB
> SIMMs, so if you can't find good matched sets of parity memory, let me
> know
> and I'll throw some your way.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> -Joel

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