[comp.sys.mac.hardware] RAM Upgrade Question

mace@kiwi.cis.ohio-state.edu (Chris Mace) (01/10/90)

	I just finnished upgrading 105 Mac plus's to 2.5 Megs for one
 of our labs, and ran into a little problem.  A dozen of them no longer
 worked.  I tested the RAM and ROM on all of them by swapping them in a
 known good board and they where fine.  Thinking that the power might be
 to low, even though it measured out ok, I swapped bad mother boards 
 with known good analog boards, and they still did not work.  I then 
 tried them with only 2 Megs and they worked fine.  I was wondering if
 anybody might know why the boards would not support the full 2.5 Megs,
 or if anyone else had the same problem.  The only visual difference I
 noticed between the good boards and the bad ones was that all of the
 bad boards had glass caps on the board, where as 'most' of the good
 boards did not.  Are they just older boards that are past thier prime?
 Thanks in Advance!



					-Chris Mace

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