A friend of mine has a couple of RAM chips lying around from some "cannibal" projects, some of which are from a Compaq that may have used PC100 memory chips. Now, I know these chips can be used in a G3 and he's offering them to me for free, but neither of us is sure if these are, indeed, PC100 RAM chips. If I stick them in my G3, will it cause harm?

Any good way to ID RAM chips?

Thanks!

Dev

[exa]

Stick it in the mac and fire up apple system profiler, that will be your ID...

[Evangellydonut]

if you put PC66 RAM in PC100 slot, it might fit, and in theory, should load, and everything will run slow (and PC66 might burn out)...The RAM chip itself might have ratings on it, (ie I got a RAM module where the chips are actually PC133 rated, so I'm happy ^_^) otherwise, I recommend that you do some digging around on the info of those RAMs...

You say you know it'll work on a G3 but not sure if it'll work on yours? the Beige G3s use PC66 and Blue&White use PC100, just for your reference.