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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!jens
- From: jens@seas.gwu.edu (Jens Johansen)
- Subject: Re: Theory on IIsi upgrade failure
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.010016.13015@seas.gwu.edu>
- Keywords: IIsi, 25mhz, upgrade
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <1992Nov6.060708.5264@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov6.065153.23335@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 01:00:16 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1992Nov6.065153.23335@leland.Stanford.EDU> thorn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Shannon Lee Thornburg) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.060708.5264@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> wrast@nyx.cs.du.edu
- > (Winston MacKenzie Rast) writes:
- >>...I have an opinion on why some IIsi's
- >>might be failing...
- >>...to me it would seem that if your IIsi did NOT have 80ns or faster simms
- >>installed in it, the upgrade would not work.
- >
- >
- >Nice try, but it was the first thing I thought of also. I tried two sets of
- >SIMMs in my IIsi after the upgrade: the original 512kB SIMMs that are clearly
- >labeled '80ns' on the back, and a set of 4MB SIMMs which I guess from the
- >numbers on the chips are also 80ns.
- >
- >The upgrade failed to work with either set of SIMMs. In fact, with the
- >original Apple 80ns SIMMs the problems were much worse.
- >
- >-- Shannon Thornburg
- >
-
- Ah yes, but remember that there are RAM chips soddered onto the motherboard
- of a IIsi. I don't really know a lot about these things, but are they rated
- for a particular speed? Could it be possible that early IIsi's have 100ns
- chips--or at least slower chips than later ones, and that this could be
- causing the failure, while later IIsi's had faster chips and work?
-
- I hope I'm not talking crap here, but I'm sure you all will let me know
- if I am. Anyhow, I wanted to toss this one out as a theory that I personally
- hope will be discredited, mine being a fairly early IIsi...
-
- A question to those of you who have done the upgrade:
-
- I have a Fax/Modem/Voice mail system running on my IIsi so it stays on
- virtually all the time. Is it inadvisable for my to run my IIsi at 25MHz
- on a 24 hour a day basis given the power/heat concerns some participants
- in this discussion have had?
-
- Anyhow, to those who have had the guts to try this, more power to you,
- and to those that have failed, keep at it! A man who never makes mistakes
- never makes anything...
-
- Jens
-
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