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Posted by: highlandcattle on 2010-11-30 01:04:29
Hi I got two powermacs 7200 and 8200 (same as 7200 but different casing). And both have been stripped of their ram and video ram. When i start them up, nothing comes on screen. I have some ram from a powermac 4400. and a quick google search shows their both 168 Dimms but I can't get the ram to fit. And I don't want to force it. Can I assume that the ram types are somehow different? Can I start up these macs without vram?
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Posted by: jsarchibald on 2010-11-30 01:39:27
I had the same problem with my TAM, which takes 5V chips. The only ones I had were 3.3V, and the notches don't line up. You'll need to keep an eye out for these, or order them in.
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Posted by: trag on 2010-11-30 12:23:47
The 7200 used the same VRAM modules as the 7500, 8500 and many of the Power Computing Clones. They were 1 MB capacity.
I have a bunch of them around somewhere, but I'm not sure I can lay my hands on them (remember where they are) easily. I also remember that the ones that I have work in Apple machines but don't work in Power Computing machines, or maybe the other way around. I haven't thought about them in years. I picked up a lot of 1500 of them at the auction when Power Computing closed down. Sold most of them back then, but have thirty or fifty still laying around somewhere.
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Posted by: Bolle on 2010-12-01 02:34:41
the 5V vs. 3.3V thing is the problem here as well. the 4400 was one of the few macs that used 3.3V DIMMs I think so they wont fit in the 7200 which uses 5V DIMMs.
The VRAM problem can be solved by using a PCI graphics card. The onboard video is a pain anyways - like the rest of the machine.
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Posted by: applefreak on 2010-12-01 03:37:46
powermac 7200 series, 8200
(APPLE-BUF-FPM)
Apple PowerMac 168-pin FPM 5V DIMM
http://www.memoryx.net/powermac7200.html
http://www.memoryx.net/powermac8200.html
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