Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hardware:7806 comp.sys.mac.misc:7422 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!udel!oscar.ccm.udel.edu!johnston From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Dilemma: Should I do it myself? Message-ID: <41382@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 10 Jan 91 22:23:40 GMT Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware Organization: Univ. of Delaware, CCM Lines: 46 Nntp-Posting-Host: oscar.ccm.udel.edu In article , bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) writes... >I need some advice. I just got myself an SE/30 w/ 1Meg and I have >4Megs what I bought separately. [ how to upgrade ? ] >1. Playing it same and have a dealer install the memory. >2. Taking the risk of installing it myself on the assumption that it's >unlikely that there will be anything wrong with the machine in the >near future. (1 year.) >3. Using it with 1Meg for a while (which is a pain) and then if >everything is OK, then install it myself. Option 1 plays it safe ... Option 3 is unthinkable! Get that RAM into your machine ... >The question is whether > E[the price one pays for a breakdown in one year]<$40, >where E stands for expectation. Regarding Option 2 and your "equation": if it fails you will almost certainly pay more than $40 if your dealer decides that you voided the warranty. Hint: if you know how to put memory into a Mac, you should also know how to take it out. If your hard disk dies, yank the RAM and take it to the dealer. If the service person opens it up and says "hey now!, whose been messing with this Mac", you probably screwed up and deserve to pay. If you did it right, I doubt that: 1) it would be detectable 2) that an Apple service person would blame an unrelated failure on you I had the rather perverse experience of paying for my first RAM upgrade, which was questioned later by a service person because it was the dealer installed RAM that failed. It turned out that this RAM was purchased as an "Apple upgrade" during the peak of the RAM drought of 1987. Apple was buying RAM anywhere it could, and my SIMMS did not have Apple markings. I had to drive home to get the paperwork that proved that my failed Apple ram was legitimately purchased and installed. After that experience I'd rather take my chances and install my own. (Note that the reason for not opening the box is that compact Macs are not made to be opened and messed with. The Mac II's are easy to work inside. For a Plus/SE/SE30, it is fairly easy to break the picture tube or yank the wrong wire. Hopefully, the Classics are easier to work with on the inside.) -- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)