[pete]

Hi,

I want to upgrade my mother's lombard so she can run X better. There's a price difference between Lombard and Pismo ram, but the specs seem to be the same, except that the pismo is low profile. Am I missing something, or can I use this ram for the lombard? I know that PC100 is comp. with PC66 so that's not a problem, but is there anything else I should be cautious about?

I would like to get two of these and put in the upper and lower slots in the LOmbard. Will that work?

Thanks

http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Pa...&Template=


256MB CL2 PC100 2-2-2 LowProfile SO-DIMM all Apple iBook Models, PowerBook G3 FireWire(Pismo), PowerBook G4/400-500MHz. Lifetime Warranty! (OWC100SO256328)
$35.95

[vmarks]

should work fine in the lombard. Don't know why they're selling it specifically for pismo.

I have two 256 low-profile pc100 in my lombard.

[pete]

I bought the ram and am now visiting my mother in Europe. It doesn't work. I tried installing one 256mb module in the lower and one in the upper and I was automatically put into open firmware mode when i rebooted (never been there before...). then I tried leaving the original 64 mb module in the bottom and the 256 in the top and the computer only recognized 128mb of the 256....total 192.

Very frustrating since I can't return them now and also don't know where to get cheap ram her.

Am I missing something????

Thanks...any suggestions MUCH appreciated.

[legionare]

I experienced the same thing a few years ago. Lombards should use PC66 RAM chips. The Pismo uses PC100 RAM chips. While PC100 is backward-compatible, there's a limitation on the Lombard motherboard that limits its ability to recognize high-density non-PC66 RAM chips. I had a 256MB PC100 chip (from memorytogo.com) in the Lombard that's seen as 128MB, until I swapped it out into my current Pismo and it's indeed a 256MB.