From: Tom Trottier (TomATrottier_at_home.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 18:10:55 EST
Hi rudolph
At 2000 February 13 - Sunday 10:22, rudolph wratten <cowthief_at_worldnet.att.net>
spoke about *701C/CS...* saying
> Hello.
>
> The facts are now in.
>
> A 701C/CS with 4 meg of native memory can accept 16 megs of SO-DIMM.
> 8 meg of native memory can accept 32 megs.
> With a planer mod, 16 meg on the board, 64 megs will give you 80 megs of
> usable memory.
> I have another friend who replaced the CPU on the planer board, and while at
> it put in 16 megs of memory. This machine shows very good numbers under
> test.
By planer board, you mean the mother board?
> After some research, I found IBM internal notes that recommended that the
> 701 series have 20/24 megs as the upper memory limit. This was because a 4
> meg machine will not access the upper memory directly, thus no real boost in
> speed. The planer board will not accept greater than 16 megs of memory. This
> is because of some address limits of the chipset for the 486 CPU. To replace
> the chips requires both ESD and SMD practices be followed,. Sorry for the
> long post, most people do not have such old computers.
So you can't just plug in a 64MB 72-pin SODIMM into an 8MB 701?
Tom
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