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VampX · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

I recently purchased a 32M Wildcard DX2 and its 32M,
does anyone know of a tutorial on how to upgrade it to 64M?

also does it require any soldering or can i just remove the old 32m dram chip/s?
and replace it with a 64m chip?

or can i add another 32m next to the original 32m chip?

also what kind of dram chips can be used with the dx2?

Many thanks for reading. Smile

kyuusaku · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us

There is no tutorial on how to upgrade the RAM, in fact, probably nobody but FFE can do it, the daughterboard has a custom memory decoder chip as well as many jumpers made of solder, for anyone to even attempt to figure the upgrade out, they'd require a 64M SWC. Your choices are to buy a 64M SWC or ask FFE to upgrade it for you.

Wolfeman · Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 62

ouch! does that apply for the WildCard DX as well [not the 2]

that sucks

Silver · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 34

I have both a 32mb and 64mb dx2, so thought I'd upgrade the 32mb version.

Unfortunately, the boards are completely different - layout, labelleing, size - even some of the non-ram chips are different.

The 64mb version also includes kynar wire patches to the dx2 mainboard - the 32mb version does.

I note that the 32mb ram board has no jumpers to be (de)soldered either.

I suspect I may just have different revisions on the ram board - would love to know more. What I really want is a pic of a 64mb ram board that is of the same layout as my 32mb board - if it even exists...

DoctorBackup · Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 265