Aeroform
Well-known member
I’m trying to upgrade my SE/30 with 16mb ram sims, but no matter what I try it refuses to boot as soon as I add them (jailbars and chime of death).
I have two different sets of 16mb ram sticks (a total of 8). One set from Siliconinsider here on the forums, and a second set from Keystron which others here on the forum had luck with. Neither seems to work in my machine, and I sincerely doubt both sets would be faulty.
I’ve tried every thing I can think of, tried both banks, in combination with other working sims. I’ve tested filling both banks with 16mb. One with 16 and the other with 4 or 1mb sims and so on.
I’ve tried using plastic shims for the slightly too thin modules, but the keystron set is exactly as thick as my “original” sims and still don’t work.
The only thing that makes my machine boot happily is using the 4mb + 1mb sets I have. Both banks seems to work fine and that memory tests just fine and runs without issues or instability.
Any ideas on what to test/investigate further? Does all revisions of the mb accept 16mb sticks? I seem to have a early rev. mb with socketed Cpu. It’s been recapped and works just fine otherwise.
I have two different sets of 16mb ram sticks (a total of 8). One set from Siliconinsider here on the forums, and a second set from Keystron which others here on the forum had luck with. Neither seems to work in my machine, and I sincerely doubt both sets would be faulty.
I’ve tried every thing I can think of, tried both banks, in combination with other working sims. I’ve tested filling both banks with 16mb. One with 16 and the other with 4 or 1mb sims and so on.
I’ve tried using plastic shims for the slightly too thin modules, but the keystron set is exactly as thick as my “original” sims and still don’t work.
The only thing that makes my machine boot happily is using the 4mb + 1mb sets I have. Both banks seems to work fine and that memory tests just fine and runs without issues or instability.
Any ideas on what to test/investigate further? Does all revisions of the mb accept 16mb sticks? I seem to have a early rev. mb with socketed Cpu. It’s been recapped and works just fine otherwise.