re installing ram in a quadra truesdel ics uci edu scott truesdell writes this is an aside to brian hughes s please let s lose the cute phony names everybody posting about adding memory to a quadra what phony names my name is clearly visible in the headers and i sing the post with my account name if you have a problem with that then you will have to get over it i ve used this account name for over years and the people who have been reading newsgroups for the last generally recognize hades as my account name i have no intention of changing the way i post i installed a couple of mb simms in my quadra and was somewhat dismayed by the general complexity of the operation compared to for example the wonderfully designed lc iii it irritates me when apple refuses to tell how to do it in the user s manual so you have to guess at how to disassemble the devise in question it s the same for adding memory to laserwriter pro s it isn t apple s responsibility to tell its customers how to fool around with it s hardware that is what apple service techs get paid to do i personally like the design of the q and applaud apple for coming up with a good way to make use of the front space for all of those drive bays i like it a lot better than the design except for those people who need drive arrays i do however agree with you about the lw pro design the operation isn t very complicated if even a minimal amount of help were offered but apple leaves you working blind again its s not apple s place to make it easy for non certified service people to fool around with apple hardware even if they did buy it of course you are free to do what you want to your mac just don t get upset when your apple service rep tells you that your warranty is no longer valid after the memory was installed i was distraught that the top of the simms came into contact with the plastic case frame mine actually contacted the framework with quite a lot of pressure enough so that the assembly of the board back to the proper position was rather difficult and required some force i could have filed a little excess material off the top of the simm boards but chose to let it stand as is i have not had problems with ram yet so i will consider the problem annoying but not catastrophic this sounds like the kind of problem i had when i installed mb simms into an lc back before low profile mb simms were readily available the standard mb simms would contact the top of the case and make it a bit difficult to close the lc but it did close and work just fine one of the nice things about logic boards is that they are generally quite flexible and can withstand a fair amount of pressure hades
