The shop owner did not put either of my two (supposedly) 256MB sticks in another machine as you suggest; but in order to determine if my iMac was capable of reading a 256MB stick, he *did* install another 256MB stick of his own into the upper slot.
My iMac read all the memory in his stick. The RAM I had bought from the Chip Merchant is IBM and has "256MB Q8 PC100-222-620" printed on a small sticker stuck to each. It must have been mislabeled. Soooo, anyone know the disposition of the Chip Merchant and its change of ownership at this time? Jim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: I wonder if another possibility is that the RAM you have IS 256 MB > RAM, but your iMac is only capable of reading 128 MB from each of the > sticks. This is a condition I have run into with my Rev/A iMac, and > from reading this list I think it has affected some other Rev/A iMacs. > I had not heard of it affecting Rev/B iMacs, but one thing you might be > able to do is use these sticks in some other compatible Macintosh > computer and see if they read 256 in any of them. > > Of course, I also realize that some RAM sticks have their capacity > printed right on them, and maybe that's what you have discovered a bit > too late. > > Jim Foster > President > Macintosh Users East [MaUsE] > http://www.mause.ca > On 25-Feb-04, at 4:52 PM, Judith Berkowitz wrote: > > > Much to my surprise, it was not the 2 sticks of > > 256MB I had paid for, but 128MB! -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
