I appologise in advance for this basic question, but I don't know much about Macs. I am trying to upgrade from OS7.6.1 to OS8.5 on a Performa6200 (because all the ISPs require OS8). The upgrade states that 24MB of RAM is required. When I look in the "about this computer" window it says that there is 32,800KB used as RAM, however, when I go through the upgrade procedure, I get an error message telling me that 24MB of RAM is required. Am I missing something very obvious? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've already spent $100 on a modem and don't want to give up now!! Thanks, Jim

I was getting similar problem messages last night. and this morning, on the advise of my technician I re-set the PRAM as described in the trouble shooting manual. Worked for me! - Record your preferences for your control panels Memory and AppleTalk (as they warn you to) (but they were un affected), - Make sure your caps key is not locked on, - Hold down the Command, Option, P and R keys on restart. - Allow the start up bells to chime several times. If you had any special settings in control panels you might have to change them back. Yours, Sal

For what it's worth: You need more memory than that! 32mb "Used as Ram" means that 32mb of your hard drive space is being used as "VIRTUAL memory" (see control panels/memory). Virtual memory is an old band-aid solution back from the days when ram cost a whole lot of dough. I do not recommend this to anyone. In my opinion VM should be OFF. Your physical ram is what you look at. My system 9.1 takes up 58 megs all by itself. That's without ANY apps running at all! 8.5/8.6 won't be all that much less unless you run bare bones, and hardly anyone does that. Get more RAM! It's not that much dough. You won't regret it.

I have a os 8 and i need to up grade it. How do i up grade it? Pleace help m