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my ibook status

I just upgraded my iBook to 1.5GB, the most it’ll take.  The CD·ROM Store took a bit of time to get the memory in, but when they did it was $50 less than I was originally quoted.

It took me four heart-stopping tries to get it installed. It went like this:

  1. black screen - eek!
  2. appeared to work, but no extra RAM recognized.
  3. black screen - double eek!
  4. works- yay!

Each tim required power off, battery out, the keyboard to come off, a fiddly little plate to be unscrewed (which was  nothing like the Apple instructions said), the SODIMM reseated, fiddly plate restored,  keyboard in, battery in, power on. My old ThinkPad was a lot easier - I once installed RAM in it on a subway train …

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3 Responses to “tasty bytes”

  1. scruss says:
    16 Mar 02007 at 21:56:28
    Seems I spoke too soon - it just crashed magnificently.
  2. WTL says:
    17 Mar 02007 at 10:32:49
    On your install disk - they grey one that comes with the machine, there is a RAM test feature in the hardware tests - run that to see if there is anything wrong with the ram.
  3. scruss says:
    17 Mar 02007 at 10:55:24
    there is just the tiny problem of not being able to find the install disk …

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