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Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006MAC MEMORY
Alright all of my earlier posts have been answered and I want to thank everyone for assisting me. I have an iMAC G3 with very little memory. I want to add some memory but the problem I keep running into is One pperson says they checked out my mac and it can only hold 256mb..another says I can go as high as 512. How do I find oput the most myu machine will accept. I have found a couple of places on the net for ram Ramjet...Superwarehouse but I don't know how much to purchase. Anyone got any ideas? Imac G3 Blue Made approx 2000(summer) 400mhz front loading cd slot ANY assistance would be appreciated ALSO I am being told different stories about CD's One person says I can save my personal files on CD and one says I must have an external machine to use with my model. Where does one go to get all this info? I keep getting everything piece meal Thank you John > Alright all of my earlier posts have been answered and I want to thank > everyone for assisting me. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thank you > John Go to <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10816> and get Mactracker. It has information about all Mac models ever released. You'll see that some iMac models supported one amount of memory according to Apple, but you could buy reliable memory from third parties that would give you more. Earlier iMacs were also sometimes difficult to put RAM into. Your description sounds like it could be the iMac DV series that was produced beginning in the summer of 2000. That would be model number M5521. If so, it supports up to 1GB. The first listed iMac model that had a combo drive (meaning CD-ROM plus the ability to burn a CD-R or CD-RW) came along a bit later. Try Mactracker and see if it'll help you identify your specific machine and answer the questions you have. = Steve =  SignatureSteve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama > Alright all of my earlier posts have been answered and I want to thank > everyone for assisting me. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thank you > John According to the free MacTracker software, there were a couple of iMac G3-400 models, one released in Oct 1999 and the other released July 2000... both, however, use the same RAM: PC100, 3.3 Volt, 168-pin SDRAM, and both support a maximum of 1 GB of RAM (though Apple claimed the earlier model maxxed out at 512 MB). You can check Mactracker online at www.mactracker.ca (not dot-com). > > Alright all of my earlier posts have been answered and I want to thank > > everyone for assisting me. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > You can check Mactracker online at www.mactracker.ca (not dot-com). Safari doesn't like the URL above. I opened it OmniWeb and Camino. > > > Alright all of my earlier posts have been answered and I want to thank > > > everyone for assisting me. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Safari doesn't like the URL above. I opened it OmniWeb and Camino. http://www.mactracker.ca/ worked fine in my copy of Safari... note that the Mac database info is not available online on that website-- you need to download and install the (free) program to access the information. Versions for Mac classic OS, Mac OS X, Windows (!) and iPod. It would be nice if the info was available online-- installing the application is overkill for people who just want to know (for instance) what sort of RAM one specific Mac model uses. > I have an iMAC G3 with very little memory. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Imac G3 Blue Made approx 2000(summer) 400mhz front loading cd slot We have an iMac DV with a 400MHz processor at work. This has a DVD drive. It came with 64 MB of RAM. I added a 512MB stick that I took out of an early G4 Quicksilver and it works fine. I do not know if this was high or low density, or arranged as two banks or one. I know that one of the dimms has to be extra short and one can be "normal sized." On the short dimms, the memory chips are flush with the edge of the dimm. I actually have a 256MB high density dimm in my car trunk that I've been meaning to try in there. I'll try it tomorrow to see if it is properly recognized. There is no way I would want to run OS X on that machine, though... > We have an iMac DV with a 400MHz processor at work. This has a DVD drive. > It came with 64 MB of RAM. I added a 512MB stick that I took out of an early [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > that I've been meaning to try in there. I'll try it tomorrow to see if it is properly > recognized. Nope, it's not recognized at all. The short stick doesn't seem to be an issue as there is plenty of room. It may have been a different iMac of which I was thinking. The 512MB stick had a sticker that said 32 x 8 and had 16 chips. The high density 256MB stick that didn't work was marked 32m x 64 and also had 16 chips. |
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