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Upgrading a Sawtooth

ingenious

ingenious

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Jan 13, 2004
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I'm working on upgrading my 400MHz Sawtooth. I'd like to take it to the maximum 2 GB of RAM, but since I already made the mistake of buying high density instead of low, I thought I'd ask before making another purchase. :D

As far as I know, these are the right specs for my machine:

-PC100 (or faster) SDRAM
-low density
-non-ECC
-max 512 MB
-double sided

I know I could just go to Crucial and order this, and if it weren't for a 10 year old computer, I would. I'm looking on eBay at the moment.

Anything I've missed? Is there a reason why something like this wouldn't work? (besides the fact the seller says it won't?)

edit: This is what I'm looking at purchasing... four sticks.
 
no just go to newegg and go to apple memory and look for the right pins and they will be in 512mb sticks. one stick is like 15-30 bucks
 
ingenious said:
-PC100 (or faster) SDRAM
-low density
-non-ECC
-max 512 MB
-double sided


Yes these are the correct specs for your machine.



Anything I've missed? Is there a reason why something like this wouldn't work? (besides the fact the seller says it won't?)

But if you buy those and they don't work, the seller will NOT take them back or give you a refund because it's in the listing that they are not for macs. And he would win any paypal dispute because of this! fOrGeT that clown! Several of my peecee-using friends made the BIG mistake of buying ram from him a while back, and had nothing but problems with it (regardless of what his feedback rating is)
Add to that the fact that his shipping is outrageously HIGH.....$22 to mail 4 sticks of ram.....pUhLeEeZe :p


edit: This is what I'm looking at purchasing... four sticks.
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Those look like the ones you need
 
Okay, so my low-density RAM came in today, but no dice. Sawtooth just beeps.

It's not double-sided, is that the problem?
 
OrangeSVTguy said:
Do you have all 4 sticks inserted? Try using one at a time to see if it works. Have you updated the firmware on the G4?
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I haven't done the one-stick-at-a-time test yet, but I will.
Edit: No luck with this either. Even with just one stick at a time, I get the now infamous beep.

I believe my firmware is up-to-date. I had to update it to install Leopard, but I will check it out. System Profiler lists the firmware version, doesn't it?

I'll have to dig up a copy of OS 9 to install the firmware. Can I just drag the System Folder off my iMac G5 restore DVDs onto the PowerMac G4? Will it boot off of that folder since it's meant for Classic? It seems like last time I updated the firmware I had to hunt down an actual install of OS 9.
 
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