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- This document describes how to install 640k of RAM on the system board
- in the IBM XT and the IBM portable (which uses the same mother board).
-
- Parts list:
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- Quantity Description
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- 18 256k by 1 Dynamic RAM chips (any of the following)
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- Manufacturer Part number
- ----------------------------------
- Fujitsu MB81256-15
- Hitachi HM50257-15
- Mitsubishi M5M4256-15
- NEC uPD41256-15
- OKI MSM41256-15
- TI TMS4256-15
- Toshiba TMM41256-15
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- 1 74LS158 Decoder/multiplexer Integrated circuit
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- IBM XT Instructions:
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- 1. Turn off the system unit, and disconnect the power cables, monitor and
- keyboard cables and any cables that may be connected to expansion boards.
- Remove the monitor and the keyboard. Place the system unit in a convenient
- work area.
- 2. Take off the cover from the system unit by removing the 5 screws on the
- back (4 corners and top center), slide the cover forward and tip up to
- remove completely.
- 3. Take out any boards installed in the expansion slots by removing the hold
- down screw at the rear of the chassis, and pulling the card straight up.
- 4. The floppy disk drives will have to be removed to gain access to portions
- of the mother board. This is done by removing the screws on the left side
- of the drive(s). Gently slide the drive(s) out of the unit far enough
- to get at the cables plugged into the back of them. Making note of where
- each cable goes, remove the data and power cables by gently pulling them
- away from the drive. When the cable are off, remove the drive(s) from the
- chassis and set them aside.
- 5. Refer to figure 1 and locate the jumper block labeled E2 on the mother
- board. It is located near the edge of the board near the power supply.
- 6. A jumper has to be installed between pads 1 and 2 on E2. This can be
- done without removing the mother board using a short piece of wire. Hold
- the wire with a pair of needle nose pliers and heat up one of the pads
- with a soldering iron. When the solder melts, push the wire into the pad
- and remove the soldering iron. Do the same thing with the other end of
- the wire and pad.
- 7. Refer to figure 1 and locate the IC socket labeled U84 on the mother
- board. This will be an empty socket near the front of the board,
- underneath where the floppies were mounted. Install the 74LS158 chip in
- this socket making sure pin 1 (marked with a dot or notch) is pointing
- away from the front panel.
- 8. Remove the 64k RAM chips in the rows labeled BANK 0 and BANK 1 (9 in each
- bank) on the mother board using an IC puller. If you currently only have
- 128k of memory on the mother board (BANK's 2 and 3 empty) you can move
- these chips to those banks. Be careful not to damage the pins when
- removing them (you can sell them to a friend whose machine has amnesia).
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- 9. Install the 256k RAM chips in the now empty sockets of BANK 0 and BANK 1
- making sure they are installed correctly with pin 1 pointing away from
- the front panel. You should now have 2 banks (0 and 1) of 256k RAM chips,
- and 2 banks (2 and 3) of 64k RAM chips, giving you a total of 640k.
- 10. Refer to figure 1 and locate the switch block, SW1 on the mother board.
- Make sure that switch positions 3 and 4 are in the OFF position.
- 11. Re-install the floppy drive(s) by sliding them into the front panel about
- half way and reconnect the data and power cables in the same locations
- they came off of. Push the drive(s) the rest of the way in and anchor
- them with the screws removed earlier.
- 12. Re-install the your expansion boards (minus any memory boards that used
- to be in the system) in the reverse order of when you took them out.
- 13. Put the cover back on, re-connect the cables and install your monitor and
- keyboard.
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- | | |
- | EXPANSION | |
- | SLOTS | |
- | | |
- | | |
- |--------------------------------------------- |
- | |
- | ------------------------------------ |
- | | BANK 0 | ---- |
- | ------------------------------------ E |12| |
- | ------------------------------------ 2 |34| |
- | | BANK 1 | --- ---- |
- | ------------------------------------ |S| |
- | ------------------------------------ |W| |
- | | BANK 2 | |1| |
- | ------------------------------------ --- |
- | ------------------------------------ |
- | | BANK 3 | --- |
- | ------------------------------------ |U| |
- | |8| |
- | |4| |
- | --- |
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- Figure 1
- (XT/Portable motherboard)