I'd also pull and reseat the CPU daughtercard (It must seat completely, which can take some pressure.) and check the PRAM battery. (Should be 3.6v. If not, Radio Shack sells them for about $10.00. Part Number: 23-026) Check to make sure the RAM is 70ns or faster. (The chip codes should have a 7 or 70 / 6 or 60, etc. towards the end of the numbers. Broken RAM DIMM keepers makes me think the Mac was abused.
David Allen "Robert P. McAllister" wrote: > mikeyw wrote: > > > Howdy List - I was recently lucky enough to get a great deal on a 7600 on > > Ebay from a very reputable seller. To my delight, instead of the 32 megs of > > ram and 132 MHz CPU as advertised the machine had 144 megs and a 180 MHz > > 604e from a 7300 and the full four megs of video. > > > > That's the end of the good news. I've spent the last week trying to set it > > up to run with stability. I am getting errors almost constantly, more times > > than not even on booting. The whole assortment of common errors, error 11, > > bus errors, system 3 errors, finder has quit errors, and on and on. I'm > > starting to think that maybe my system board is bad. .... > > Man, that's a laundry list of problems. Did you try pressing the CUDA button? > It's the tiny red button under the processor heatsink. It should be pushed for > ten seconds whenever something is added or taken from the motherboard. Check > whether the hard drive is properly terminated and that each device have a > unique SCSI ID? > > -+-+-+- > > RPM -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
