On May 5, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Manuel Marques wrote:
Then it crossed my mind to try to boot the machine with a
Panther CD I have here - it booted straight up, until the point it
generated a kernel panic for not being able to determine the CPU type,
based on the system model.
You can install Panther or Tiger with the help of XPostFacto 4.
I then got another OS 9.2.1 CD and I got it to boot!
It is now running with OS 9.2.1
9.2.1 or 9.2.2 are the last version it will run, but they both will
disable some of the features of the "personality cards", especially if
you have a "Wings" AV in/out card. You can change some of the
extensions back to the versions that came with OS 9.1 to re-enable
these lost functions. The specific extensions are ATI Resource Manager
5.2.4, and ATI Graphics Accelerator 2.7.3, which are the final
versions that work with the Wings cards. You may also need to look at
the Sound Control Panel version, but I'm not sure which one works
best, there are many versions.
and when I have the time (and the money) I want to get some more
memory for it. Is it hard to get some
more VRAM? Or is it better to get a PCI graphics card?
The add-in VRAM is a waste unless you're using the Wings AV card for
input/output (it shares the VRAM). Optimally a Radeon PCI card is
best. A flashed PC version of a Radeon 7000 (sometimes called "VE" in
the PC world) is cheapest. A faster Radeon like the flashed PC Radeon
9100 is better, but these are hard to find now. The real Mac Radeon
9200 is too expensive and slower than the flashed PC 9100 and 9250.
You can find ROMs to flash PC Radeon cards here:<http://themacelite.wikidot.com/
>.
The RAM is PC-standard, although is a bit slower than the one I have
here for my
Pentium III PCs, so it shouldn't be too hard to find...
No, it MUST be "low density" meaning NOT double density. This means
chips on BOTH sides of the DIMM module. If you use double density RAM
it will only recognize as 1/2 the amount, so you'd need three 512MB
double-density to equal three 256MB low density modules. I hate to
waste RAM that way, and you should too, so get the correct low-density
RAM.
I also want to install a USB PCI card, in order to use some older
hardware which is not OS X-friendly, like my old flatbed scanner.
You may be able to use the old scanner in OS X with 3rd-party software
such as ViewScan or SANE for OS X (SANE is an acronym for Scanner
Access Now Easy, and it's ported from Linux to OS X as freeware;
ViewScan works with almost anything but it's pricey).
But right now the machine is working perfectly!
Great!
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