Re: [NTLK] Fancy ROM Board

From: Glenn Roe (myhome_at_cwnet.com)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 01:32:12 EDT


Could the architechture of the eMate with the extra slot for the hart to
find (and afford) upgrade be condusive to an upgrade of this sort?

Glenn Roe

> Paul Guyot wrote:

> > Indeed. The only guy I heard of who has one is an Apple engineer.
> >
> > > > Do you know if anyone has attempted/succeeded in increasing the amount
> > >> of ram?
> > >
> > >No one has been successful in increasing the amount of DRAM. Doing so would
> > >also require a system patch to tell the OS that there is more memory, and to
> > >reallocate it accordingly.
> >
> > Well, this is the easy part, although this cannot be (easily) done
> > with a system patch. It must be a custom ROM Board.
> >
> > The really hard part is to modify the motherboard to support it.

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