[Ti] Ram question on Ti 500mhz + other question about list

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 8/6/04 7:23 PM, blah Blah at nowriteme at yahoo.com wrote:

> I just got a good deal on a Ti PB 500 at a garage
> sale which had 2 (256 ram chips) and i upgraded
> it to 2 (512 ram chips) runing panther 10.3.4
> and it seems to be more flakey with the more ram
> 
> can this machine handle this much ram or am i smarter
> to just go with 1 (256) + 1 (512)
> 
> it just seemed to run better with the less ram then it
> does with the more ram as i now see the spining color
> wheel which before i never saw?

How big is the hard drive?  That is another thing that can help or hurt.

> is there a way to check the ram (i mean the pb boots
> up etc.) just seems flakey and takes longer to boot up
> then it did with the less ram)

It does have to check all of the extra RAM.


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