before you waste money on more ram sticks, clean the connector fingers. that's usually the problem, and consistent with the symptoms you report. use a clean pencil (not pen, they are too abrasive) eraser to burnish the fingers until slightly shiny, blow off the eraser crumbs (you may have to clean the eraser on a piece of clean white paper if it gets too dirty) and try again. sometimes i've had to repeat this when i wasn't aggressive enough the first time. in any case you'd have to use a pen eraser or try all day to hurt the plating so i usually polish them rather bright now, particularly in the indentations from the contacts on the ram sockets, which of course is the part that matters (assuming they wind up in the same socket, exactly the same way). do it on a wood surface or antistatic mat or cardboard (basically antistatic), the older ram isn't very static sensitive, just don't do it on a day when you're getting static zaps every time you touch a door knob, in fact don't go near the innards of computers on those very dry high static days. i've played with a lot of ram and other chips under less than "recommended" static protection conditions, it's rarely a problem.
> I tried the RAM from the quadra and set the jumper but it did not work! When I >booted my mac > I just got white vertical lines, a little bit of a sad mac face and a noise that >sounded > like interference. Has anybody got any 1mb sticks that will work in a Classic and >how much > will you offer them for? > > Tim -- "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, how much blood will it take to win back the first amendment, which the Bush administration clearly does not support! The thought police are amongst us. -- 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> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:compact.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:compact.macs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:compact.macs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
