BacioiuC Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 I have an SE equipped with a Total Systems Mercury 16 MHz upgrade card and an memory expansion. The SE has 4 MB of ram on the main board and 4 extra megabytes of ram on the RAM expansion board that plugs into the mercury. In Gemstart 3.0, pressing on "Accelerator Info" it reads the 4 MB of 32-bit RAM, and mentions they are 1 MB SIMM's. As a new entry since plugging in the board, it mentions "ROM Copied to RAM", which wasn't there before. From what I can understand, the RAM is properly recognized, yet the SE doesn't see it. Read online that I need to get Connectix's Compact Virtual installed for the SE to see the additional 4 MB. I've installed Connectix Compact Virtual v 3.0.2. With Swap Indicator or Move I/o Addresses toggled/enabled the computer boots up without a hitch. But as soon as I press on Extended Memory and move the slider anywhere from the default 4,096K the SE fails to boot up and hangs on "Welcome to macintosh". I cannot find any manual for the Total Systems Mercury or for Connectix Compact Virtual. Hoping anyone here has any ideas whatup. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BacioiuC Posted November 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 If anyone else is wondering what's causing this, I managed to solve it. While browsing through the forums, I saw quite a few old topics about the issue with no resolution. Well, the solution is: Connectix Compact Virtual does not work well with anything above System 7.1. I have a few SD cards with different system versions prepared and I tested it out from 6.0.8 to 7.5.5 and it worked perfectly up to (and including) System 7.1. Anything above this is just asking for trouble from what I gathered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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