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?
im going with no on that
Im gonna go with... "why"?
I'm gonna go with q. I like that letter better than y
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.
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
LOL
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
uhh, yeah still is his server though. Bet the bill he pays say so.
uhh, yeah still is his server though. Bet the bill he pays say so.
No... i work for an IT department for a bank in TX. we host some of our services thru rackspace. believe me when i tell you we dont own anything but the data. The hardware is theirs and this is pretty much the standard when it comes to webhosting.
oh god, your going to split hairs? Dude it comes down to ITS JASONH's server. Period. This isnt YOUR site, My site, or even the web hosting companies site. ITS JASONH's. Thats the part you really need to understand. physical placement, brand name of the the server, and color of the screws dont matter.
ITs still HIS. His name is on the bill, He pays the bill.
http://whois.domaintools.com/avic411.com explains whos the site is, hence the server that runs it, and the information for which the site is stored.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/his explains the word 'his' as a pronoun
2. that or those belonging to him: His was the cleverest remark of all. I borrowed a tie of his.
physical possession means nothing, He can take the info/site and put on another hard drive/server/web host and guess what, its still his. So before you start playing word games, dont be an idiot. All intensive purposes, IT belongs to jasonH. In the unlikely event some government or judicial court wanted to contact the server owner/user for this site, guess what, that wouldnt be GoDaddy.com it be the server owner JasonH.
Hopefully this is clear enough for you, as this is clearly off topic from which the thread originally started from.
oh god, your going to split hairs? Dude it comes down to ITS JASONH's server. Period. This isnt YOUR site, My site, or even the web hosting companies site. ITS JASONH's. Thats the part you really need to understand. physical placement, brand name of the the server, and color of the screws dont matter.
ITs still HIS. His name is on the bill, He pays the bill.
http://whois.domaintools.com/avic411.com explains whos the site is, hence the server that runs it, and the information for which the site is stored.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/his explains the word 'his' as a pronoun
2. that or those belonging to him: His was the cleverest remark of all. I borrowed a tie of his.
physical possession means nothing, He can take the info/site and put on another hard drive/server/web host and guess what, its still his. So before you start playing word games, don't be an idiot. All intensive purposes, IT belongs to jasonH. In the unlikely event some government or judicial court wanted to contact the server owner/user for this site, guess what, that wouldnt be GoDaddy.com it be the server owner JasonH.
Hopefully this is clear enough for you, as this is clearly off topic from which the thread originally started from.
Wow... let me remind you (yes you... SIR) you started flaming my "figurative" (hyperbole) speech. I didn't mean Jason's server (physical equipment) and i wasn't pointing out at "Jason" directly. I meant those paying for hosting services, as i was just pointing out the fact that people just post crap just because they develop an itch in their left nut (as it might be your case) and others pay for that wasted bandwidth that adds up and some of us end up paying for to ISP's and thus leave people asking questions in the same shape or form they were before they were stupidly answered (such as yours). In other words. Don't waste other people's time and resources because you think you are cool and can crack jokes. wanna crack a joke? go to yomomma.com. otherwise, Mr. "bust-your-balls-just-because", stay on topic, be courteous, helpful, eloquent and informative or just simply zip-it...
now if you didn't understand that (Obviously you did not) why don't you ask.. "Sir what do you mean?" before you start blasting carelessly away?
and by asking hopefully, we don't run into the misfortune of people such as yourself, we can get solid answers to our questions. Just keep on moving and answering the questions you can. the ones you cannot leave for other people who might have an answer.
By the way did is not personal so before you start cracking the "Yo-momma" jokes, think about what I'm am saying for just one split second. Believe me when i tell you that good things happen when you use your brain. cool "Webster"?
-J
You know, you can back peddle all you want, but you said
That isnt directed towards 'others' thats directed to a single person... aka smuck. So, saying you werent pointing out Jason directly, is clearly untrue. While I agree with your "people just post crap just because they develop an..." comment, it is clear that is not the only intention of your 5th post here. Consequently, I hope that my response to you right after that was clear to straighten up things for whom you were calling a smuck. That would have been the better time to back peddle and say sorry, poor choice of words cuz its clearly there as quoted above. And, he is paying for hosting services. So, are you still saying that he is the smuck or not? with your rambling 'figurative' speech, its still unclear.. especially to me because of the reasons you have given thus far, to whom the smuck comment was directed to.ause of useless data stored in some poor smuck's server.
You lost me on the joke part. What does cracking jokes and your further ramblings if not the first rambling post you did in this thread have to do with anything? Your first post in this thread consequently has been edited, long after it was originally posted. With that you have eliminated the ability to read what it was then, its now doctored to reflect a more on topic post, good job.
Just the same your pissing match is over. You have insulted JasonH in my eyes clearly, and very possibly others that have taken the time to read this... because after all it is HIS server, and he does pay a hosting bill which was what you said was required for whom this was directed to. Short of apologizing for those initial comments and the further ramblings that have taken over this thread, you sir, have been upgraded to 'idiot' status. No jokes. Honest truth there.
For the rest of the readers, sorry for my ramblings, I just see a need to out the idiots and flamers who want to insult without clear knowledge. Clearly poor choice of words have been used here today.
lol umm.... why dont you just return your d3 and get a z2 if you want more memory?? might be a little easier.
he is talking about different memory
Someone should figure out a way to use the Pioneer USB adapter and a thumb drive to store map data!
Wow.
20 GB of data on a thumbdrive? riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
You wouldn't need 20gig on a thumbdrive to store map data. The DVD is not 20 gig. You can get 12gb thumb drives here:
http://www.pocketec.net/catalog.taf?f=mi&cat=tone&guid=27956820-A5DB-4635-81C6-57EFA09FD7C7
That should do the trick pretty nicely. I know the Garmin portables can use SD cards so why not?
*** found this too ***
It appears that there are now several 16gb flash drives on the market. There is even one from Toshiba.