emusonacid!

hows it done???

welcome...

you are about to begain the most terrifing journey of your life...

this was the one part of upgrading the emu that just terrified me. i assume you have you ram right? well what you have to do is of course remove the old ram from the sampler. okay this is kind of hard, seems on how securely placed the ram is. i believe that you should be able to find something in the owners manual. if i remember correctly, there will be a tab that will allow you to push one side up on the ram, making it come out. like a wedge. might here some snapping sounds. pops, i can't remember this part all too well, so i think it wasn't too bad...

now once you have gutted your sampler... i should also mention you should keep one hand on your emu at all times, or have a friend come and hold on to you arm, or the back of the neck, while you friend holds on to the sampler. this way, you will not blow the ram you just bought, or the old one for that matter.

okay, once you have gutted you sampler you are going to have to put the ram in, i figure you have to sticks of 64.. if not, then why not? :) you must keep touching or have you friend keep touching you and the sampler as to protect the new ram. you are going to have to lay the ram in the memory bays in an angle. remember there is a right way and a wrong way. the ram should fit like a key of sorts, there are little grooves cut out on the ram and you should match that up with the bays pins. now for the part that i hated...

you lay your ram in at an angle, and you have to snap them in... not so easy, it seems to take a lot of force to just get on to snap in. remember those pops, snaps, and cracks... well you are going to hear them now, and by the end you will think you broke it. until you have turned it on and it detects the ram.

i don't remember too much on how to do this, since i maxed mine out about a year ago... but i think i remember the basics.

after you get the ram in you are going to have to do a ram test. you should have that in your instruction manual as well. if not, give a shout and i can scan and email you the pages from the manual... should be in your quick start manual...

hope this helps you man.

god, i hated put ram in that thing. i thought i broke on chip in half... christ

Ezman's reckless advice...

1. Remove casing (need to take the 3 screws off the back the 4 on the sides and the 8 from the rack ears)
2. Ground yoursel' - Now - again giving out reckless advice but.... as long as you touch the metal casing beforehand you should be okay handling the RAM as long as if you do go off somewhere else you ground yourself again. I don't think you need to have one hand on the casing at all times, I myself didn't do so and would have found it impossible to install with one hand!!!
3. Take out the old ram. You should see some tabs that release the ram. Use them. gently push or pull the ram away form the release tabs and it should fall out! Pick it up and put somewhere safe (just in case).
4. The Ram will only go in one way, you will notice the bottom left hand corner is cut away like a rizla. This should give you some guidance. The sprocket type things on the release tabs need to go into the holes on the ram. The key is be gentle and you can't go wrong. Be careful not to snap the 'release tabs'.
So you put one ram stick in the slot the old stuff was in. And the other in the next slot. Make sure the holes on all ram chips are filled up with sprocket type thing.
5. Plug the power in the back and check if it sees the new ram.
6. If it is okay put the case and rack ears back on.
7. If not you have dodgy ram or the ram isn't seated properley or you've put it in the wrong slots.
NOTE: Ground yourself! Don't touch anything else in there. Be gentle but not afraid!!!

nice one - only took me a min!! was as easy as changing a battery on a mobile phone!!!

mate (ezman) - thanks soo much for suggesting the site to buy the ram from and for telling me how to do it!!!!

Hi all,
On the subject of ram...I got a second hand E5000 with 32mb installed. I fancy maxing it out so, what kind of ram does it take? How much can it take? and how much should I pay for it? Anything else I should know? Thanks in advance. I tried the Emu website but it seems to be down and the manual doesn't want to help either.
cheers,
Gylen

http://www.oempcworld.com/item.html?PRID=457571

order 2 from the above, will cost approx ?27 inc shipping for the max 128mb ( 2 x 64mb) your e5000 can take. It would cost you around ?100 from the likes of digital village

Otherwise there's more info in the emu addon's thread... viewtopic.php?t=14

Gylen :: do buy the ram from the site that ezman suggested!!! he sugested it to me and i bought it last saturday night and it was with in the post on monday morning and installed into my emu on monday afternoon!!!! all good, trust!

nice one guys! ram took three days to get from the US to Glasgow!!!! That's quicker than me to mail my folks in Inverness :) Unfortrunately, I had to use my old man's card to pay so ,my ram's sitting IN Inverness. Oh well, I'll fit at the weekend. Thanks for the link
Gylen

it only takes literally a min to install too! its amazing how fast they deliver isn't it!!

It's damn crazy how fast that place delivers from the US to the UK! Much better than most UK companies which is plain daft! Must be the 'Urgent priority' envelope that does it