I'm on digest and things are pretty busy on this list so apologies if I've lost the thread.
I had a 7300 into which I put a lot of RAM. The original spec for it was 512MB but then 128MB sticks came about and in theory 1024MB was possible. I used a mixture of sticks, 32, 64 and 128 and when I had 600+ in I always had to kick the machine off twice; i.e. start it as normal and then immediately do a restart from the keyboard as if it had crashed otherwise it wouldn't start at all. I worked like this for months and months without any other problem until I was told that going to the memory control panel with the option key pressed or something similar (OS9.0.4) would access an extra panel in which I could turn off a start up RAM test which may have been causing the problem. This worked but then I got adventurous and put some more 128 sticks in. Around 800MB of RAM and I had to kick start it several times to get it to go. It might have been the sticks I bought; 128 was very expensive in the UK and I bought some off ebay for half the retail price. Anyway I decided that theory was one thing but practice was another and I went back to around 500MB and it then behaved okay. I sold some 128 sticks on to a place where I work from time to time and they've had no trouble with them but the total RAM is well below 500. I suspect the RAM or combination of RAM. HTH Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Digest mode) -- 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
