I have a 600MHz 2001 G3 graphite slot loading imac, and I have two matched sticks of 512mb 168-pin 133mhz sdram. They are brand new. They refuse to work in my iMac. No matter if I have one or both of them installed, no matter which one I use, or which slot I use, when I power on the iMac I just get a black screen, and a single loud beep. And the power light is flashes in a really strange, drunk way. These are the ram sticks I got:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=019&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=290097112741&rd=1&rd=1
Can anybody please help me?
The auction you linked to specifically states "It is not for Apple Mac Machine.".
I would try and return them or maybe swap or sell them to a peecee user. It looks like tou got the RAM pretty cheap so It shoulnd't be too hard to get your $$ back out of them.
Awwww crap I missed that part about not for apple mac. Crap crap crap. Well at least I can return them.
Probably why it sold for a low price. If you use the PC RAM section you can get much better deals than in the Apple section of eBay, but you have to be careful.
... that the RAM was not for you, after 'It is not for Apple Mac Machine.' was the description as 'high-density'. SDRAM for the slot-loading CRT iMacs needs to have 16 chips on each card if the total for a card is either 256 or 512MB. You can get away with 8 chips only with 128MB and under. Those same Macs can also be picky about quality, so look for name-brand cards and chips.
And another caveat is that late in the production of PC133 cards, not all were back-compatible with PC100, a production shortcut undertaken in the light of a 'dying' market.
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