>on 9/17/01 4:18 AM, Harbourmaster at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> I have never heard of that.
-snip-
> >>> I have worked on about 300-500 Beige G3's in my career, and I
> >>> haven't
>>>> experienced this with any of them. They all take just about
> >>> whatever PC-66 + RAM you give them.
> >>
>>> If you're really curious, I'd suggest taking a look at the forums which was
>>> where I learned more about it. :)
>>>
>>> There is actually an apple tech doc at the url I gave earlier that talks
>>> about actually needing a rev C rom to use 256meg DIMMS. Obviously its not
> >> the case, as I am using a B, but I'm sure there's something to it.
> >>
> >> Michael Bryan Bell
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> I read the forums at XLR8 and MacFixit on a daily basis but if
>> you want to compare Apples to Apples heres what's in my basket...
>>
>> I have here a rev-A Beige G3 266 minitower that is running overclocked
>> at 291Mhz with an 83Mhz bus speed and 768MB of Ram!
>>
>> This Mac has the stock 6gig ATA hard drive and CD-Rom drive.
>> On the SCSI buss we find an Internal Zip 100 drive,
>> and an 18gig 10k rpm Seagate SCSI/SCA drive with adapter(9line termination)
>>
>> Also installed in this machine are an IX Micro TwinTurbo 128,
>> a 12MB GameWizard Voodoo2 card and a "House Brand" Comp USA
>> Firewire/USB combo card.
>> (Requires Windows 98SE or Higher it says on the box!)
>>
>> All of this runs quite trouble free under OS 9.1 using no third party
>> drivers.
>>
>> Any Questions????
>
>Um... Yeah... So? :) I had another rev A with 768megs of Ram in it, that
>wasn't the point...
It wasn't???? :-)
>
>Why are you guys taking this as a personal attack on the rev A g3's?
I'm not takeing it personally.
>They're great machine's, but I and others have had problem with the rev A's.
>Maybe you haven't. That's great. I haven't had I happen to all of the one's
>I've owned. But it has happened to two. Could be my machines? Well, no, as
>the forums and articles on xlerate point out.
The point I was trying to make is that we seem to only hear about it
when someone has a problem.
You are implying that this is a widespread problem with the revA's.
I was simply trying to show that the Beige G3 is extreamly tolerant of
older hardware.
>*sighs* This is starting to feel like the paranoia the mac lists had when
>apple was in real trouble.
>
>Michael Bryan Bell
Hmm...I don't feel any paranoia. Perhaps you are just imagineing it! ;o)
Aloha, Ken
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