[Duo2400] 2400c GLOD and 96 MB RAM

[Tom Seid]

Don't have a 96 chip, but did you start up without it installed?
Just use the 16 megs and see what happens?



on 10/22/03 8:08 AM, Gary Shigenaka at shig at nwrain.com wrote:

> I'm a longtime lister who finally experienced my first terminal GLOD
> after about 5 years of using my 2400c.  In the past, I've been able to
> revive the 'book from this condition, this time I could not.  After
> avoiding doing my own work on this model for years because of the dire
> warnings about the complex nature of the task, I decided to byte the
> bullet and do a complete motherboard transplant with another 2400c we
> had lying around the office.  Thanks to the very detailed step-by-step
> instructions on the Mac2400 website from Ivan Drucker, completely
> disassembling these things really wasn't too bad at all.  I wound up
> removing the motherboard and IO board from the surplus machine,
> installed my Vimage G3, the 96MB RAM chip, and my 30 gig HD, then put it
> all back inside my 2400c.  After the surgery, BOTH machines booted up
> fine...then my upgraded machine died again.  It now appears to be
> terminal again.  For reasons I won't get into here, I now think it's my
> 96 MB RAM that's suspect (I've had the RAM installed for several years).
> That (finally) leads me to my two questions:
> 
> 1.  Anyone else experience a GLOD-like failure that was eventually
> traced to defective RAM?
> 2.  Having missed the eBay auction for another chip by around 12
> hours...does anyone have a lead on another one of these elusive 96 MB
> memory upgrades?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
>