SE/30 RAM Upgrade

[jwse30]

I have an SE/30 logic board that is giving me fits (another topic for another day) so I swapped in my spare board and all is working fine. Except this board only has 8 meg installed. My other board had 20, and I am thinking of upping this one to at least 20, if not 32. My dilemma is that this board has the plastic SIMM sockets and I am worried that they may snap when I remove and reinstall the SIMMs. Is there anything I can do to make that less likely to happen? My only thought is that if I heat them with a hair dryer (a heat gun may be too much?), thoroughly before trying.

Any tips or suggestions? Thanks in advance,

J White

 

[JRL]

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much - I've never personally broken a plastic SIMM slot. I've always bent them to the bare minimum that they need to be bent in order to release the SIMM and they've always been intact after. 

 

[ScutBoy]

Oh, they can break. Trust me.

Be very careful. If they do break, if the SIMM on the other side is solid, you can sometime get away with a spacer of cardboard or something else non-conductive to keep the broken one tight. I've even seen someone (maybe here) 3D print little hold-downs for this.

 

[jwse30]

It's done; went from 8 Megs to 32 Megs pretty quick and easy. Oh, except I forgot to put ethernet card back in

Now it's off to figure out a small RAM disk. Is there a way to have a RAM disk made at startup and then dump the System folder into it and run off of it?

Thanks,

J White