James Sonne Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 I recently purchased a D3, and I am curious if anyone here has been brave enough to open up their D3 to see how the RAM is installed, and if it is in standard memory slots. If that is the case, has anyone tried adding more RAM? If someone has, has it worked or is the D3 programmed for 64MB? I might try to check the FCC website to see if they have disassembled images. In the mean time, anyone have any thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites
maddmike Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 im going with no on that Link to post Share on other sites
tillithz Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Im gonna go with... "why"? Link to post Share on other sites
cntrylvr79 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 I'm gonna go with q. I like that letter better than y Link to post Share on other sites
Reach Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 so, you really think they will be socket mounted like in your pc? have you ever looked at any piece of electronics outside of your pc? i will bet you $100 on the spot that it is surface mount simms. enjoy removing those and adding more ram. which you can't use. Link to post Share on other sites
dropped.jag Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 wtf would you want more ram ne ways to load shit faster who gives a fuck.pay attention to the road before you kill a dog or sumshit Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 LOL Link to post Share on other sites
coocho Posted March 18, 2007 Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 I recently purchased a D3, and I am curious if anyone here has been brave enough to open up their D3 to see how the RAM is installed, and if it is in standard memory slots. If that is the case, has anyone tried adding more RAM? If someone has, has it worked or is the D3 programmed for 64MB? I might try to check the FCC website to see if they have disassembled images. In the mean time, anyone have any thoughts? Umm... considering the size of the D3. I seriously doubt they take the same type of ram as desktop or laptops. Also, RAM is hardware. You dont program it with 64MB. If that was possible, Id program my comp to have a billion GBs of RAM. Link to post Share on other sites
James Sonne Posted March 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 The RAM stores the navigation route from the disc, since there is only one slot on the D3. Many BIOS's have a restriction on the maximum amount of RAM that they recognize, hence my asking if there is a RAM limitation. Also, the navigation software very easily could simply be coded to store x MB of map data into memory instead of just filling up the memory. So, has anybody opened up a D3 yet for any reason? Link to post Share on other sites
maddmike Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 actually i think its rom that holds the navigation information since i don't think its lost when you turn it off, but yes a bios may limit the amount of ram they reconize, but thats not the issue and its not that it just has one slot, it has 0 slots, it is built onto the board. Link to post Share on other sites
James Sonne Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 The D3 has only one disc slot, that's to what I was refering. Also, the D3 is wired to both 12V and ACC, so it's getting power all the time. There's no need for it to store in ROM, although it may store (and hopefully does store) some settings in ROM, such as EQ settings, presets, background images. The map data is read off of the DVD disc and stored in the system's RAM, though. Link to post Share on other sites
jzsax1 Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 Wow.... all those answers and more than half were idiotic or no help whatsoever and the cause of useless data stored in some poor smuck's server. anyways. I agree that the 64MB of ram that is in the D3 is embedded and that there i no slot available for upgrades. I would love to be wrong on this however. I saw on some other post and idea that has great potential but it will required people with great technical knowledge involved. Storing an ISO of the NAV disc on an IPOD and dump the firmware and code it so it will have an "IF" statement when it mounts devices. This will find the IPOD and load the data as it it were reading a HDD or and optical. This would be awesome. will it happen? if the need arises, i think we will see something like that or very close Hope this helps. Link to post Share on other sites
tillithz Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 so JasonH is a smuck? his server. Doesnt usesless posting of something useless in it of its self counter productive? I mean really, why upgrade the ram, I dont see any usefulness for it. Link to post Share on other sites
jzsax1 Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 so JasonH is a smuck? his server. Doesnt uses posting of something useless in it of its self counter productive? I mean really, why upgrade the ram, I dont see any usefulness for it. Jason corrent me if i am wrong. But is think this forum is hosted somewhere else. Technically that would not be his server. He is looking into Eliminating as much as he can, discs swaps. Link to post Share on other sites
tillithz Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 uhh, yeah still is his server though. Bet the bill he pays say so. Link to post Share on other sites
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