Try going under the apple menu,click on apple system profiler, that should
tell you what ram is in there, without opening it up
on 9/10/02 3:08 PM, Rick McCutcheon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi PBListers,
>
> I'm about to open my PB1400c/117/32 for the first time (yippee!). Never
> done it before, but readiing the manual seems to indicate that it's not
> difficult.... (if I can tear apart and rebuild a Rochester carb, surely I
> can handle a 1400? :-{)....
>
> Anyway, my reason for opening it is to determine the configuration of the
> current 32 Megs of Ram in preparation for maxing it out to 64. Eventually
> leading to a G3 card.
>
> **Will it be clear once I get inside what the configuration is? Does each
> card say something obvious like 24RAM on it?**
>
> I assume if I'm lucky, the previous owner will have had 12 standard and
> added a 24 to get to 32. This would leave me to get a 32 Meg card. If
> there was 16 originally it would have either another 16 meg card or two 8s
> (is there even an 8Meg card option?).
>
> The worst scenario would be for there to be two 12Meg cards already filling
> the expansion slots, which would mean taking one out and putting in 32 for
> a total of 56 is this correct? Or is there such thing as a 40 Meg Ram card
> (I've never heard of such a beast). I have seen a 48 Meg card, and that
> would add up to 60Megs with the original 12 - or 64 if it started out with
> 16 - am I missing something?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Rick
>
>
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