Sun Ultra 5 memory

[careyarmst]

Hello,

I am new, please bear with me! I have a used Sun Ultra 5 that I bought sans memory. Sun says it needs DIMM that is part no. X7038A but only seems to sell X7042A (128MB obviously need 2)- will this work on my Ultra 5? (It is a 270 processor and is probably 3 or 4 years old-hard to say). I am using this machine primarily for learning purposes (it supposedly comes with 7 want to upgrade to 8- of course I don't know for sure since without memory it doesn't seem to want to boot up) I have installed & used Solaris 8 Intel on two laptops (Toshiba Satellite 2805-S202 & IBM ThinkPad T-20- my word on the street was that Solaris didn't to play too well with laptops, but it worked just fine in both cases) but not on an actual Sun machine, and I don't know anything about their architecture or if I am getting the right chips-FYI- I have some (limited) experience removing & installing RAM in Intel desktops & towers-so I can maybe find may way around the guts of the box if I can be sure I am getting the right DIMMs. Can anybody help?

THANK YOU!
Carey A.

 

[jamisar]

to boot you SURE need memory, but
don't need sun-memory, have a look in internet
you get a lot af cheaper alternatives. vox clamantis in deserto.

 

[jimbopalmer]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059317660

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059391572

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2058557845

are some examples (and random specifications) I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[dawookie]

The newer (faster) Sun memory should work fine in your U-5. IIRC the U-5-270 used 2-32M 60ns Dimms

U-5 memory uses ECC and has different form factor than the comodity RAM that you can pick up at every corner computer store

You may want to consider 3rd party or refurbished memory if this is to be a home (or starving student) system. I have had fairly good luck with a couple of vendors including DataRam and West Coast Computer Exchange.

Cheers

man(1) is your friend

 

[careyarmst]

Thank you to everyone that replied! Based on info from this forum I bought some DIMM chips from Crucial and my Ultra 5 is now up & running just great. Installation was a snap (literally). I wasn't nuts about the floppy sitting right on top of the DIMM chip slots in the Ultra 5, but it was easy to remove, unhook, install the chips, rehook, and reinstall, so turned out I was momentarily stressed for no reason. Tony Stewart did not hit me