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Re: How to change VRAM?

Carl Elkins <c...@sanger.ac.uk>

Peter Naulls wrote:
> Amin Kharchi wrote:
>> Hello!

>> I have a Risc PC 600 with 1 MB VRAM. I want to change it with a 2 MB
>> VRAM Module. But I don't know how to remove the module because there is
>> a strange white lock bar:
>> http://www.kharchi.eu/files/VRAM-RPC.JPG

>> I have tried pull the bar to top but it is _unmovable_. I don't think I
>> need violence to move it because the mainboard could break.

> Believe it or not, you need to pull harder - straight up preferably.

Try just pushing them outwards, they rotate around the base of the side
pillar - it's a standard DIMM-type socket with locking clips, as is
plain from your picture (never taken a PC apart?).

(That said, I haven't had the lid off my RPC in years :-()

> I have snapped these in the past, but it should still hold the new
> one firmly if you do.   You may care to try with needle nose pliers.