On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:26 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a rather esoteric question that I suspect
at least one person may
be able to answer better than the collective urban legendry found on Google.
I have a Mac LC475 (same machine as Quadra 605), and I'm looking to max
out the memory. None of Apple's tech notes mention anything about EDO
memory, and people tend to generally think that it can handle it, but I've
been bitten before. Does anyone have a good idea about whether the memory
controller can handle it? Also whether it can actually take advantage of
it? My gut feeling is yes to the first and no to the second.
Secondly, does anyone have experience with Micro Memory Bank? They seem
to be offloading piles of newly-manufactured vintage-compatible (5V FPM and
EDO) DIMMs and SIMMs on Ebay. The collective common wisdom for the LC475 is
that 128MB SIMMs will work, but only if they're single-ranked. The
salespeople for the vendor don't seem to know what I'm talking about when I
ask, and I'm having a hard time getting photos of the board from them
(which should at least let me look at the traces). Anyone know about their
128 MB EDO/FPM SIMMs?
Relevant auction number is 350478815002.
- Dave
Dave,
I have successfully used EDO memory in a Performa 475 (same as the LC
475/Quadra 605), but some of the EDO boards I tried only showed up as 96MB.
Haven't dealt with Micro Memory Bank.
John