Clark, Thanks for that. I think I found the CUDA button - it's not labelled as such but it's closer to the RAM slots than the battery? And pressing it resets date and time?
Am working through the DIMMs. And testing them on an old PC, but I don't think it's BIOS supports big DIMMs. It seems to see some of the capacity of the big DIMMS. Hmmm. On Mar 13, 6:51 pm, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > warhelmet wrote: > > I bought two sticks of 512MB PC133 SDRAM. It is low density and is > > CAS3. But my Flower Power iMac doesn't seem to like it. Does the beep > > and flashing power thing. > > > This is dead odd as I've seen Mac specific stores advertising similar > > RAM as compatible. Am I missing something obvious? I think I've got an > > old pc that I can test the RAM in (will have to open it up to check). > > None of the G3 iMacs require PC133 BTW. But it should certainly work okay. > > For starters, did you hit the cuda button? It's a small button not far > from the battery. > > Next, try putting only one DIMM in at a time in all combinations (try > each DIMM in each slot. You may have a bad DIMM or a bad slot. Also > try one of the new DIMMs with one of whatever you had in there before. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA, USA > Macintosh / Internet Consulting > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
