Hey Brian, Thank you sir for the reply. Crucial.com sells the exact same model of RAM for my Ti 667 and my wife's Vaio - except RAM for my PowerBook costs a couple dollars more. I'm sure you're right about a "toggle" difference. It would have been nice to max out my wife's RAM capability with my droppings(?). Sincerely, Brad On Sep 16, 2005, at 4:32 PM, ~flipper wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> This may be off topic, but . . . >> >> I have upgraded my Ti 667 to 1 gig of RAM. I now have a couple >> 256 mb RAM chips taking up space. This RAM will fit in my wife's >> AMD Vaio laptop, but I get a "BIOS" error when I install said >> RAM. Do I need to change something in this RAM to get it to work >> with this Vaio? Is there software "burned" into RAM? >> >> Thanks in advance for any help anyone may be able to offer. >> >> Sincerely, >> Brad Ellis >> > > Brad, > > I can't speak specifically to the Vaio, but Apple's machines use > the absolute slowest RAM sticks available. > > Some smarter person will have to explain that, technically, but I > believe it's all in the little internal toggles, and high-speed > sticks for the PC won't work in a Mac, either, so, there you go. > > Brian S > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >