iMac Rev A -- newbie help

[Andrew McVinnie]

OK Goofus,

You can put any ram you want in you iMac...  Yes your iMac has a 66mhz 
bus, and yes, the ram it originally came with is 66mhz, but you can buy 
and use 100, 133 mhz chips. Your mother board will never know the 
difference.  The faster ram will just run at a slower speed of your 
mother board.  Go buy two 128 chips and put one in each memory slot of 
your iMac. It will work i promise. 256 is the max your iMac can take 
though.

There are 2 slots on the iMac. One on top and one underneath the 
daughter card. I'm sure you are familiar with the upper one, but to get 
to the lower one, you have to pop the daughter board off the mother 
board. The second slot is in the same place as the first, just on the 
bottom.

I have about 12 original iMac all running Mac OS X in my office. They 
have all been upgrade like this.

Andrew McVinnie




On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 04:18 AM, Goofus wrote:

> The problem with that is my (original) iMac only has a system bus 
> speed of
> 66mhz, and I've been unable (after two years) to find anything greater 
> than
> 96mb that can run on that -- newer chips are 100mhz and 133mhz.
>
> In fact, to add insult to injury, I have the original 32mb chip here 
> in my
> hand that came out of this piece of refuse when I got the new 96mb one 
> -- I
> could *technically* have 128mb of RAM as I type this, but with only 
> one slot
> for RAM there's nowhere to stick it.
>
> Again, I don't mean that dirty.   :-)
>
> D.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suzanne Payne" <s.payne@gold.ac.uk>
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:57 AM
> Subject: Re: iMac Rev A -- newbie help
>
> The max is 256Mb according to www.everymac.com.  I have 160Mb in my 
> Rev B.
> A lot of these "the machine can only take blah ram"  things are 
> because at
> the time of release the biggest chips you could put into your two slots
> were only 32Mb or 64Mb, whereas now they sell 128Mb or 256Mb chips 
> that fit
> in the machine and the machine can address every last byte of them!
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