> >At 12:54 -0700 5/12/02, John wrote: >>Salutations everyone, >> >>I have a c500 (603e/200) and I am trying to upgrade the memory in the thing. >>I bought a 64MB module for it but its not working. Did the OS reload and >>everything. Didn't work. I bought EDO 2k RAM, could I need non-EDO RAM? Or >>could the memory just be bad? I bought it from Other World Computing ( >>http://www.macsales.com ), anyone know if they have a good track record? >>(The support desk there said that their techs say I need non-EDO RAM, this > >is contrary to everything that I have read on the subject though.) > If you use FPM ram in a C500/600 at some point you will likely be sorry that you bought it. I let a local vender talk me into buying 1- 64 mb chip for my C500 and it worked fine but when I decided to add another it refused to work with 2 64mb chips in the machine. It would how ever work with a small chip in the other slot. The vender told me I needed a new motherboard! I used it like that for a while. I upgraded to a G3 and it refused to boot with the 64mb FPM chip in the machine. Rather then buy a new motherboard I decided to try 64mb EDO ram as the fine folks at MacGurus suggested. Machine started right up no more problems. End of story. I bought a 128mb EDO ram chip from OWC over a year ago.For my J700 machine. It came very poorly packaged. In fact it was in the smallest, thinnest bubble wrap envelope I've seen inside a large Fed EX mailer. It did startup and ran for 3 days by which time a 30gb drive of video was corrupted and no longer was usable. It then failed the ram tests I used on it. So called up OWC. Did they admit the ram might be faulty? NO! they said the problem was I should have gotten FPM ram! Seems to be their standard answer. I told them that people I trust told me to use EDO 2k refresh ram in UMAX machines and I would like a replacement! It arrived and is still working fine.(with the J700/S900 the quality of the ram is more important then if it is EDO or FPM but not the C500/600 machines IMHO) Best of luck. Will S
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