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

[Joe]

Jonathan Glass <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu> writes:

> 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).

Must be a slightly different model; on mine the HDD is dead center,
floppy on the far left, battery on the far right (yet the case
lettering says "ARMADA 1700", plain as day).  I tried your suggestion,
and it *almost* worked. However, the CD drive is immediately under the
kbd (also in the center, above the HDD), and it appears it needs to
come out before the kbd will lift out. It's not obvious how to get the
CD drive out.  I'm being very cautious because I really don't want to
damage this machine accidentally.

Anyway, I ordered an Armada 1700 service manual from Compaq :-)

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka

> 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?
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