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Centris 610, how to get system 7 to show installed VRAM
Posted by: lowlytech on 2016-04-19 18:32:25 I have a centris 610 that I upgraded the Video memory but have had a very hard time getting mactest to pass the video ram tests. After swapping modules around several times and ordering new modules, I got a pass on the long test. The modules that seemed to make it happy were a mixture of -10 and -8 4.8 display simms. I was just wanting to confirm how much video ram the system thought it had. It does have a thousands option in the monitor control panel but I can't seem to find a good system 7 program that will show me the vram size. The apple system profiler will not show video ram on 7.6, but I know on my 9.1 imac it does. Any suggestions for a good manifest type program would be great. Thanks
Posted by: 360alaska on 2016-04-20 12:46:16 You can try techtool and see if it will...
Posted by: washchuk on 2016-06-14 13:54:23 The Centris 610 only has a single SIMM slot for expanded VRAM, in which you have to put a 512k chip (for a total of 1 MB). The Monitor control panel will only display "Thousands" as an option if it recognizes the entire 1 MB of VRAM. So, if you see "Thousands" as an option (instead of 256 as the max), then your machine is recognizing the entire megabyte of VRAM.
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