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| Click here to select a new forum. | | SE/30 RAM Upgrade | Posted by: jwse30 on 2020-06-18 20:06:47
I have an SE/30 logic board that is giving me fits (another topic for another day) so I swapped in my spare board and all is working fine. Except this board only has 8 meg installed. My other board had 20, and I am thinking of upping this one to at least 20, if not 32. My dilemma is that this board has the plastic SIMM sockets and I am worried that they may snap when I remove and reinstall the SIMMs. Is there anything I can do to make that less likely to happen? My only thought is that if I heat them with a hair dryer (a heat gun may be too much?), thoroughly before trying.
Any tips or suggestions? Thanks in advance,
J White
| Posted by: JRL on 2020-06-18 21:47:21
Personally, I wouldn't worry too much - I've never personally broken a plastic SIMM slot. I've always bent them to the bare minimum that they need to be bent in order to release the SIMM and they've always been intact after.
| Posted by: ScutBoy on 2020-06-18 22:50:27
Oh, they can break. Trust me.
Be very careful. If they do break, if the SIMM on the other side is solid, you can sometime get away with a spacer of cardboard or something else non-conductive to keep the broken one tight. I've even seen someone (maybe here) 3D print little hold-downs for this.
| Posted by: jwse30 on 2020-06-19 12:40:40
It's done; went from 8 Megs to 32 Megs pretty quick and easy. Oh, except I forgot to put ethernet card back in 🙁
Now it's off to figure out a small RAM disk. Is there a way to have a RAM disk made at startup and then dump the System folder into it and run off of it?
Thanks,
J White
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