Stupid but very important question!

[TheIanMan85]

There's some good clarification. The LEM article threw me off a bit speaking of using all eight banks when Apple and Mactracker said groups of four.

So more RAM seems to be the answer!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

More RAM is ALWAYS the answer! :lol:

 

[BGoins12]

Yup, they were installed as 4 SIMMs. I found out I got the wrong memory, and sent it back this morning. Just to confirm, is this the memory I need?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4x-4MB-16MB-30pin-SIMMs-RAM-APPLE-MEMORY-non-parity-4x8-/150640594875?pt=Printer_Accessories&hash=item2312e10fbb#ht_500wt_922

If so, I'll buy that one.

 

[zuiko21]

Strange... the SE/30 doesn't need parity modules, but they should work fine too -- the extra chip is simply ingnored (not connected to the datapath)

The last link seems to be compatible memory, but the previous one should have worked too -- they did on the LC II, didn't they?

 

[BGoins12]

2 of them worked fine in the LCII, the other 2 gave death chimes. I bought them from a reputable place and they were sold as fully tested and working. I put all four in a 486 PC I have, and it recognized them all as 16MB, and the computer ran fine.

I seem to have the weirdest situations.

 

[techknight]

i know the logic board isnt at fault, i tossed everything I had in it and it worked fine.

 

[BGoins12]

It was definitely the memory. The memory gave death chimes in the LC II as well.

On another hand.... what's the best Stuffit version for the SE/30 running 7.5.5?

I ended up ordering some memory from eBay that is 100% tested as good and working in Macs. The seller claims it was tested in an SE/30 as working.

Posting this post from a 7600/120 with a 333MHz G3 card and 384 megs of RAM.

 

[zuiko21]

StuffIt 5.5 runs fine on 7.5.5, and is compatible with most (if not all) .sit files, unlike earlier versions. I think you can even use it on 7.1 if you have the Thread Manager extension installed.

 

[BGoins12]

All is well. Got the correct memory in the mail this morning. I now have 20 megs of RAM. (4 x 4MB and 4 x 1MB)

7.5.5 flies on it with 20 megs... it crawled with 5.

 

[BGoins12]

Ahh.... much better.

 

[mcdermd]

It looks like you still need Mode32 and 32-bit addressing turned on.

 

[BGoins12]

Yeah, I haven't downloaded it yet. I plan to tonight.