Ah-hah... that's maybe why, I'm on 7.6.1. Ironically, last week I finally
bought OS 8 - hasn't arrived in the mail yet... sounds like it was worth it
though... so, I guess that means I have to open it?... appreciate your
help. Rick
(PS: this list impresses me so much... I thoroughly enjoy reading
everything, even what doesn't apply to my case - folks are truly friendly
and helpful on the list.)
>Rick
>Don't know what os you are running, but under os 8...you should see BUILT IN
>MEMORY, with an arrow to click...if you click on that arrow, it will open
>like a folder, and tell you what chips are in there...
>Hope this helps...otherwise, it's pretty easy to open the 1400...even I can
>do that...I am not techie at all...the ram cards should be marked with their
>size...
>Tom
>
>
>
>on 9/10/02 3:53 PM, Rick McCutcheon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi, thanks for this - unless I'm looking in the wrong place, all this tells
>> me is that I have 32 Megs of RAM, but not how it is configured so I still
>> need to know what upgrade card to buy... I'm open to being corrected
>> though! Rick
>>
>>> 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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