Beige/B&W ram compatability

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Michael L Kankiewicz - 15 Nov 2006 17:27 GMT

Hi everyone. Does anyone know if ram is interchangeable between Beige
and B&W G3s? I have a Beige G3/333 with 768(3x256)mg. I tried to put one
of the dimms in a B&W 350 and it wouldn't work. So I put it back in the
Beige and pulled out a different one, and the second one worked fine in
the B&W. The dimms *are* a slightly different height. Will some work in
both and others not?

Thanks,
MK

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Neill Massello - 15 Nov 2006 19:02 GMT

> Hi everyone. Does anyone know if ram is interchangeable between Beige
> and B&W G3s? I have a Beige G3/333 with 768(3x256)mg. I tried to put one
> of the dimms in a B&W 350 and it wouldn't work. So I put it back in the
> Beige and pulled out a different one, and the second one worked fine in
> the B&W. The dimms *are* a slightly different height. Will some work in
> both and others not?

The two models have different bus speeds (66MHz versus 100MHz) and hence
different minimum requirements for RAM. PC100 DIMMs should work in a
beige, but PC66 DIMMs will not work in a B&W G3. The best compendium of
Mac hardware specs is Mactracker <http://www.mactracker.ca>.

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