alastair@hpqtdla.sqf.hp.com (Alastair Reynolds) (01/08/91)
I have just bought a 2Mbyte upgrade for an STE. This required removal of 1Mbyte in the form of four simms cards of 0.25Mbyte each. Is anybody interested in upgrading their 520STE to 1Mbyte. Contact alastair@hpsqf.hp.com
Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz (01/11/91)
In article <15760002@hpqtdla.sqf.hp.com> alastair@hpqtdla.sqf.hp.com (Alastair Reynolds) writes: > I have just bought a 2Mbyte upgrade for an STE. This required removal of > 1Mbyte in the form of four simms cards of 0.25Mbyte each. Is anybody > interested in upgrading their 520STE to 1Mbyte. Contact alastair@hpsqf.hp.com Note: You can use the 1/2 meg in your STE, to make it a 2.5 meg one.. -- Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (01/27/91)
alex@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES) writes: - Some people say we can use 2 x 1Meg SIMMS and 2 x 256K SIMMS to make - a 2.5 Meg STE system. - - Is it actually reliable and supported by ATARI ? I'm using a 2.5meg STe. The only problem is that it thinks it has 4megs in it. When I get passed the 2.5meg point, that's when it starts crashing and locking up. There's a program called SIMMFIX which reprograms the MMU and TOS to tell it that there's 2.5megs, but it requires a warm-boot after it loads and is kinda cumbersome. Depending upon how I arrange the SIMMs, the STe thinks I have 1meg or 4megs, with varying degrees of reliability. The best arrangement so far is 1meg/256K/1meg/256K (if you started from the back slot). -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com (01/27/91)
Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES asks: >Some people say we can use 2 x 1Meg SIMMS and 2 x 256K SIMMS to make >a 2.5 Meg STE system. > >Is it actually reliable and supported by ATARI ? Atari does **NOT** support ANY memory expansion for ANY Atari product before the TT... You buy it, and you take your chances on upgrading it... However, the STe can be easily upgraded with SIMMs, *IF* your STe is equipped with SIMM sockets... BobR
djw@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (David Williams) (01/29/91)
> Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES asks: > >Some people say we can use 2 x 1Meg SIMMS and 2 x 256K SIMMS to make > >a 2.5 Meg STE system. > > > >Is it actually reliable and supported by ATARI ? > > Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: > Atari does **NOT** support ANY memory expansion for ANY Atari product before > the TT... > > You buy it, and you take your chances on upgrading it... I have heard this stated on the NET many times before, however.... I just traded up to 1040STE, and while I was at the shop grabbed a copy of the Atari STE sales brochure. In that document, it clearly states that the 1040STE is "internally expandable to 4Mb". That would indicate to me that expansion to 4Meg is supported. Atari might demand that the expansion be done by Atari, but clearly the implication is that a 1040STE 4Meg configuration is supported. At least that's a the way I read it :-) > However, the STe can be easily upgraded with SIMMs, *IF* your STe is > equipped with SIMM sockets... Sure was, picked up 4Meg the way home from the Atari shop. One test of the machine at 1Meg (to see that it worked!), then an easy upgrade to 4Meg. At as a side comment, the STE seems much better quality than my old 1040ST. djw@hpldsla.hp.com