Dear Mac lovers,
I am struggling to upgrade the RAM in my Plus from 1 to 4 MB. I am not good at or familiar with working with hardware, so I tried very hard to follow instructions. I took out the old 256K SIMMS, put the 4 "new" 1 MB ones in, tried to make sure they were snapped in all the way. I snipped one end of the R8 resistor and bent it out of the way. I reconnected the 2 cables I had disconnected in order to get the motherboard out - power and floppy cables, I believe - again being as careful as I could to make sure they were reconnected properly. I wore a grounding strap throughout the process and handled things as gingerly as I could.
Upon booting up, my Plus' screen is now covered with little vertical lines of varying lengths, gently wavering. Before I opened up the Plus and changed the RAM, it had been fine.
Any guesses as to what I might have done wrong, or whether there's a possibility the SIMMS I put in are bad?
(Unfortunately I don't own a soldering iron so I can't put the R8 resistor back like it was to see if it still works in its old configuration.)
Any suggestions much appreciated,
Jessi
(hoping to get a compact doing some useful work before two years go by - I've been trying for more than a year)
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