Dead 6100

[CelGen]

To follow up it seems that the replacement has bad onboard ram.

Luckily The Hackery once again came to the rescue and are supplying me with replacement DRAM chips for me to solder in.

 

[alk]

I wonder if you can increase the capacity of the on board RAM by using larger DRAM packages...

 

[Nathan]

Maybe? That seems plausible, although there may be a reason it can't. Supposedly it can be upgraded as far as 520mb (8mb + 256mb + 256mb) using ram sticks. I'd speculate you might have to increment the memory on the board by multiples of two the though given how the simms must be installed in matched pairs.

 

[powermax]

Supposedly it can be upgraded as far as 520mb (8mb + 256mb + 256mb)

No, it's a kind of misleading information spread across the Internet. PowerMac 6100 can address max. 264 MB, i.e. 8 MB soldered onboard memory + 2 SIMMs x 128 MB. See this post and this post.

 

[trag]

No, it's a kind of misleading information spread across the Internet. PowerMac 6100 can address max. 264 MB, i.e. 8 MB soldered onboard memory + 2 SIMMs x 128 MB. See this post and this post.

I think this post is a better choice for the hardware reason (second link above).