Hi all, Having just purchased my first flat (absolute nightmare) I decided that if I wanted to upgrade the RAM in my 7500 I couldn't afford the going rate of about �50 per 64meg chip. Good price but I just can't afford much of anything right now :-( Once I found out I needed 168pin EDO DRAMM DIMMS I scouyred ebay and located a PC chip, inc p&p it cost me about �13. It arrived today........ First off, having found the 7500 extremely easy to open (amazing machine design!) I found that the 'gaps' in the chip did not match the rises in the DIMM holder in the MAC, they were off by a millimetre or so. Since the holles in the bottom of the chip we siurrounded by plastic and not pin connections I bravely (and stupidly!) usd a hacksaw (!!!!) to expand the holes so the chip would fit. I restarted my mac and the chip worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......but....... 1) Ram doubler would not open - or work/load 2) THe floppy drive would not recognise any disc to mount it got errors -27 and -127 3) Tried to boot AOL (4.0) to log on, got as far as the sign on screen before crashing. I opended the mac, removed the chip, reinstalled Ramdoubler and everything works again.
Possibly related - Last night (3am) I as usual opened Netscape Communicator and it crashed my mac just after launching. I restarted, logged bach on and the same thing hapeended - 4 times, in the end I left it and went to bed, this morning deleted communicator and installed navigator 4.04 instead which works great. I've never had any probs with communicator before. Also , has anyone else had probs with realplayer installers? I am on os 7.6.1 and cant get it to install, I've trued RP 7 and RP G2 (or whatever that other one is) I have a 132mhz card, 32meg ram 2gig internal, 1 gig internal, 1 gig external, desktop trackpad, Seiki Image Pad 2 Graphics Tablet and Apple Adjustabel Keyboard, External Teac 555 CDR and a 120meg optical drive as well as the internal cdrom. I use an ATI XCLAIM VR monitor card with a hi res VGA monitor and an apple 14' monitor on the internal board. Any ideas/comments? James ps. If anyone has any DIMMS they would like to get rid of - id be happy to take them off your hands :-) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
