ian1035nr
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Howdy everyone, I have a PowerBook 180c that isn’t cooperating with a 10 megabyte RAM module I have.
I plugged the module into my PowerBook 170, and it works perfectly. System 7.6 boots fully, and I ran it like that for a while and it never gave any trouble.
The 180c however, refuses to cooperate. It shows a gray screen, plays the death chime, and doesn’t do anything else.
It works absolutely fine with a 6 megabyte module I have, along with some 2 and 4 megabyte modules. It’s just this one 10mb part that doesn’t work with it.
The 10mb stick in question came from another 180c that was working (I bought it 13 years ago, and it had problems with the interconnect cable, it’s long gone now so I can’t try it with this stick), so it’s absolutely, 100% compatible with the 180c
I just can’t figure out what the problem is. I tried the obvious things like cleaning the socket on the motherboard and the connector on the RAM, I made sure it was fully inserted. I’m stumped.
If anyone has any other options, I’ll try anything
I plugged the module into my PowerBook 170, and it works perfectly. System 7.6 boots fully, and I ran it like that for a while and it never gave any trouble.
The 180c however, refuses to cooperate. It shows a gray screen, plays the death chime, and doesn’t do anything else.
It works absolutely fine with a 6 megabyte module I have, along with some 2 and 4 megabyte modules. It’s just this one 10mb part that doesn’t work with it.
The 10mb stick in question came from another 180c that was working (I bought it 13 years ago, and it had problems with the interconnect cable, it’s long gone now so I can’t try it with this stick), so it’s absolutely, 100% compatible with the 180c
I just can’t figure out what the problem is. I tried the obvious things like cleaning the socket on the motherboard and the connector on the RAM, I made sure it was fully inserted. I’m stumped.
If anyone has any other options, I’ll try anything