Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!mcf!mibte!gamma!towernet!pyuxp!nvuxj!nvuxr!ccw From: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (christopher wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SIMMS in a MacPlus Keywords: SIMMS, MAc Plus Message-ID: <1228@nvuxr.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 13:14:40 GMT References: <6571@rpi.edu> <3323@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Reply-To: ccw@nvuxr.UUCP (22456-christopher wood) Distribution: usa Organization: Bell Communications Research, NJ Lines: 25 In article <3323@sbcs.sunysb.edu> jdn@sbstaff2.UUCP (John Norden) writes: >I just bought and installed two 1MEG SIMMS in a Mac Plus >It seems to work fine is there any way to test if the SIMMS are >working perfectly. The machine does a memory test on powerup. Do About the Finder... and it will tell you how much memory it thinks it has. > When I boot up the mac it takes several >seconds to bring up the smile in the mac. Does the computer do >memory check during this time? You guessed it. More memory = more time to test; that's why the delay is a little longer with 2.5 MB. > Would the macintosh boot up >software identify a problem with the SIMMS? Yup. One of the sad mac codes tells you that there's a memory problem, and even identifies which SIMM(s). -- Chris Wood Bellcore ...!bellcore!nvuxr!ccw or nvuxr!ccw@bellcore.bellcore.com