Re: Larger harddrives in older Thinkpads

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From: William Van Tuyl (wvantuyl_at_iso.net)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 12:44:45 EST


Well then, how about a 755C 20meg, 1.2G (was 800m until it went belly-up), running
Windows 98 SE (cause I needed the Internet Connection Sharing) doing its job as a
server for my home network (3-5 machines)? I tried one set of Dell SODIMM (2x4mb)
memory that did not work. I wonder why?

Bill

"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:

> William Van Tuyl [mailto:wvantuyl_at_iso.net] wrote:
>
> > Now how am I going to get more than 36Meg of memory? Hmmm!
>
> You can't. 32MB DRAM card + the 4MB on the 755C MB give you a max of 36MB, 40MB
> on the later 755s with 8MB on the MB.
>
> Even with the JEDEC SO-DIMM adapter, you can't break the memory ceiling, I've
> tried many times with 32MB sticks in the adapter on almost every 755.
>
> On the bright side, either 36MB or 40MB will give you a very nice machine with
> W95OSR2 (or OS2) installed.
>
> Regards,
>
> James


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