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Sep 20, 2005
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I just finished heavily upgrading my iMac 350 to the following:

Seagate 120GB Ultra ATA hard drive
1GB PC100 RAM
Slot-loading DVD-ROM drive

Now when I turn the iMac on, I don't see any video or hear the chime sound. And yes I updated the firmware before upgrading because I know that's required when installing OS X.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: I found out it was the memory I purchased for it. The iMac boots fine with the original RAM so I'm guessing it cannot read ECC sticks correctly. Is this right?
 
Cool, thanks for the response. I definitely need to get more RAM in this thing... 10.3 is chugging along better than I had expected, though. It currently has *gasp* 128 MB in it. :eek:

Edit: Quick question... does it have to be non-ECC? I ask this because I found a great deal on eBay ending in less than 24 hours:

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-1GB-2x512MB...ryZ80165QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It's ECC so does that really matter?
 
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