Requirements

• Device

  It is possible to upgrade only the following devices:

  • Palm III
  • Palm Pilot Professional
  • Palm Pilot Personal
  • Pilot 5000
  • Pilot 1000
  Sorry, but if you have any other device, then I don't know how to upgrade it to more than 8M. To upgrade other devices to 8M, see my page here

• Memory module. You will need a TRG SuperPilot II XL memory module. TRG sold these modules to upgrade the same devices listed above to 8M. Without this module, you can't upgrade to 12M

Procedure

Add a second 8M memory chip to the TRG module. The chip should have the same orientation as the one that is already there. This picture shows such a module. Ignore the small wire on this board -- that is part of a repair that was done to this module due to a trace that was somehow damaged.

Believe it or not, that's all there is to it!

Other upgrades

If you look at the back of the TRG module, you'll see another empty solder area:

If you add another flash chip to this area, you'll end up with an extra 2M of flash memory available to flashpro (after you reformat the flash area with FlashPro setup)...

WARNING

Modifying your device will void the warranty provided by the manufacturer!

Good luck!

Parts

The 8M DRAM chip required should be a 4K refresh chip. Self refresh is NOT required for this upgrade. Some compatible parts are:

• KM416V4104[ABC]S-6 - Samsung (or KM416V4104[ABC]S-L6)
• UPD42S65165G5-A60 - NEC
• HM5165165LTT-6 - Hitachi
• MT4LC4M16R6TG-6 - Micron
• M5M465165[AB]7P - Mitsubishi

Compatible chips are available here:

• http://www.interwb.com/memory.html#PILOT
• http://www.netbuy.com/
• http://www.marshall.com/
• http://www.reptron.com/
• http://www.avnet.com/

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