[rescue] PowerMac RAM/VRAM?

Zach Malone rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Jul 7 22:51:48 CDT 2001


I found a couple sticks of 72 pinn simms from some macintosh in the past
(presumably a PowerMac) that I upgraded, and removed the old SIMMs.  When I
tried them in my Cycle SS-5 board, it would boot, but crash after displaying
the total memory.  Removed the two, it works fine, your milage may vary,
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bran Tregare" <tregare at rit.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] PowerMac RAM/VRAM?


>
> I tried sparc 5 dimms in my 7300 and it just ignored them :(
>
>
> At 01:02 PM 7/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody got RAM (or also, 2 megs VRAM) for a PowerMac 7600 lying
> > > around?  Uses the same RAM as a PM5400, 6500, 7300, 7500, 8500,
> > > 8600, 9500, or 9600.
> >
> >You can use DIMMs from a SS4/SS5 in these if you have any floating
around.
> >The Sun DIMMs have parity but the PowerMacs will just ignore it.
> >
> >-James
> >
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