Thanks to all that have awswered my request for help... I finally heard the chime of the 7300/180! What a lovely sound :-) My problem was two fold:
A) I remove all the RAM chip and put back 2 of them. By hitting the C key I could boot on the CD OS. I gradually add more RAM up to all of them. Booting from CD OS always successful??? So it seems that some RAM chip were not well inserted. ---RAM question: The RAM chips are a mix. I tried putting EDO pair together a1-b1... But how can you tell EDO from FPM? The ones EDO tha I could recognize was because it was written EDO by hand on them... B) Second problem was the hard drive. After booting from the CD I could see the HD, a 2 gig formated with no system on it! So I installed 9.1 and rebooted. No luck. I reformated and reinstalled a couple of time with same result. As I heard a sound that did not belong at start up (like you will hit a hanging chain with a spoon, sorry cannot explain better, before the usual scratching) I decided it was time for HDT: low level formating with verify. While verifying HDT found bad blocks and declared the HD not usable... Now I have an external 4gig HD: Seagate Barracuda model ST15150N ---Hard drive question: Do you see any problem in using this HD with the 7300? Again thanks very much for a so responsive list, JCT -- 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
