[G4] G4 Digest, Vol 81, Issue 1

[Harry A. Freeman]

Greetings Deivid,

The MDD is sensitive to some makes of PC3200 memory.
I don't remember which maker is the one that doesn't work.
However all 512MB PC2700 DDR 333MHz 184 Pin is the memory that OWC  
recommends.

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:26 PM, deivid cardona wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your answers, i've changed my pc3200 ram for a  
> pc2700 to put it to work safely... i received a mail with a chart  
> listing all the graphics card that i can use and what i need to use  
> them... and it says that i can't put any 6200 geforce on a MMD. is  
> that true?... is really impossible put to work an 6200 on a MDD?  
> maybe that EVGA model cannot work, but someone is selling me a  
> second hand XFX 6200 (the model listed at Mac Elite) for the  
> equivalent of $20 usd
>
> is this a waste of time??
>
>
>
> I am using a flashed GeForce 7800GS in my MDD G4.  Got most of the
> information I needed from The Mac Elite
> (http://themacelite.wikidot.com/nvidia-geforce).  Flashing the card  
> was
> a bit of a game and I am unable to flash it back to its original  
> state.
> Fortunately it works, although the monitor flashes plain black and  
> then
> blue for about a minute during boot up!
>
> The XFX 6200 card on the Mac Elite website looks totally different to
> yours so I would be surprised if the ROM for that card worked on  
> yours.
> You could try it but in my experience it would be risky and you might
> end up with an unusable graphics card.
>
> With regard to the memory.  I don't think it would do any harm to try
> the PC3200 memory but I have found Macs to be more fussy than PCs in
> this respect and I think it is unlikely to work and especially so as  
> you
> plan to
> mix it with PC2700.
>
> I hope this helps.
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