[ale] [OT] Installing RAM in a Compaq Armada 1700

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Feb 26 10:16:48 EST 2003


Under the keyboard.  Remove the battery and floppy, and find the screws with 
arrows pointing to them, and the center screw b/w the battery and floppy bays.  
Take them out, flip over the machine, remove the keyboard, and the RAM is right 
there.  I think (no research, working from memory) that those machines can 
handle either an additional 128 or 256.  

The HDD should be in the same place (on the right side of the chassis, the RAM 
is on the left).

HTH
Jonathan

Quoting Joe <jknapka at earthlink.net>:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a cute little Armada 1700 here, and I'm going to use it to
> explore a bunch of different distros. At the moment it's only got 64M
> RAM and a 4G HD. I'm looking to up the RAM to at least 128M and the HD
> to at least 10G. The HD is easily accessible, and I can pick up a 10G
> drive for $40 on eBay. However, I can't figure out how to physically
> access the RAM to upgrade it. (I have no docmentation of any kind for
> it, and Google has not helped me thus far.) Does anyone else have one
> of these boxes? Know how to get at the RAM?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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Jonathan Glass
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