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Post #5 by trag
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateFri, 11 Apr 2008 - 17:22
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/quadra-605-board-mod.12773/
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IAnyway to make a long question short, has anyone ever replaced the soldered on 4MB onboard memory on the Quadra's logic board with higher capacity ICs?

I'm more curious about whether the OS and whatever the Mac's BIOS analogue is will accept more than 132 MB of RAM and I really don't want to run the risk of ruining a good machine if there is a hardware limitation

Anybody have some knowledge for me?
Oops, I got distracted by the later discussion. I've had the Q605 up to 260 MB of RAM by installing a SIMM doubler in the SIMM socket wtih two 128 MB SIMMs + 4 MB on board = 256 + 4 = 260. So the Firmware (Mac folk call it firmware instead of BIOS, but it's just a nomenclature thing) supports at least that much RAM. You can't close the lid with a SIMM double installed though.

You could probably just run a line from the SIMM socket's address lines to supply the address lines which the 4 MB is missing and take that memory up to 64 MB using 16M X x parts. The Samsung 16M X 4 parts are fairly convenient to use for this purpose, but they are physically too large to fit where the existing 4 MB is located.

To go beyond 64 MB, I"m pretty sure you'll need to find another RAS line you can use to make the on-board memory double banked.

Because you seem to have a lot of experience with this stuff, if you see anything obviously wrong in my earlier post, I'd appreciate a correction. There are still some holes in my understanding of how RAS and CAS were typically arranged on these older machines.

mp.ls