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From: lex@philica.ica.philips.nl (Lex van Sonderen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: RAM for a Mac + and monitor
Message-ID: <670@philica.ica.philips.nl>
Date: 20 Sep 90 07:48:43 GMT
References: <71349.26F6CEFC@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: lex@leest.ica.philips.nl (Lex van Sonderen)
Organization: Philips TDS, Innovation Centre Aachen
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In article <71349.26F6CEFC@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> CHARLES BOOS writes:

>I am thinking of installing 4 Mb of RAM into my mac + but I have heard

I installed 4Mb in my Plus one year ago and had only problems since.
It had a internal 20Mb HD for 3 years, which draws power from the Mac
and without a fan! It was very reliable (no complaints whatsoever) until
I upgraded to 4Mb when problems started: the Mac becomes very hot, suddenly
stops working, does not start-up until cooled down. It usually restarts
when it tries to access the floppy, so when it needs extra power.
Removing the back of the housing solves all this, which suggests that
extra cooling would solve it.
I have now removed the HD and try to work with a 4Mb Plus, but it has only
slightly improved (a sudden restart after 2 hours instead of 30 min).

I will try a fan now and if that fails I'll buy another machine.

Lex van Sonderen
lex@philica.philips.com