OK. almost everything I ordered, to hot rod my 6360 up to max, has arrived. Before I start the process, I need coaching on what to do in what order, and to doublecheck whether I have everything I need, before I start souping this baby up.
I still have not solved the mystery of why the machine fails to see the hard drive that has been in it since it was 'born'. I have two notions on what to do for that : idea one is to put in a new PRAM battery. radio shack is out of stock on the rayovac 840 so I asked for an 844. anybody got a reason why that ought to be fine or shouldn't be? idea two is to take out the old HD and put in another that came with the lot of mac components I won on eBay from what we here ID'd as probably a 62 or 300, playing 'name that mac'. they are both IDE 1.2 G and apple ROMed.any cautions? tips? wisdom? if the machine successfully sees the HD after idea one or idea two, we go on to these endeavors: take out small memory chips and replace with larger memory sticks in RAM. should bring RAM up to 64 or 96 megs for now. when bigger RAM arrives later, replace again and get RAM up to 128. remove L2 cache card and install brand new OEM Sonnet crescendo G3 400Mhz/1MB cache upgrade. note of wisdom here-have paid attention to discussions. must load sonnet software before putting the hardware onto logic board. Q-I screwed up one of my 68k's by installing a trackpad driver wrong. don't want to repeat that. what exact steps do i execute to be sure i add the sonnet s/w as its supposed to go? in the previous mess, i didn't know about the difference between letting the finder place the driver in the root level of the system folder according to its own method. i blithely clicked on the hard drive icon that time, it opened, i found the system folder and clicked it open, and being a tad too right brained, prceeded to take the system folder out on the desktop and THEN dragged and dropped the driver onto it. it kluged and i got a bomb. i still haven;'t undone that mess on that mac yet. I don't want to do it again to this machine. so how exactly do i put the sonnet driver on the hard drive? what should i absolutely NOT do.? assuming I get that driver successfully put where it should go correctly: then i get to put these new toys on the logic board. in what order should I add them?: TV card. coaxial module ATI rage 128 PCI video card with DVD decoder module daughtercard add on and last challenge: I got an IDE DVD ROM drive. should it fit into the CD ROM chamber as a swap out? could I put it on the same IDE ribbon with the HD? being IDE, won't I have to set one as master and one as slave? I can move the CD ROM out on the SCSI chain, since its SCSI 50 pin, or i can put my CD burner out there. should I put both out there? drivers: what OS systems carry the ATI rage drivers natively? how bout for the DVD decoder daughtercard, when added on it? and the DVD ROM drive? what machines come with DVD ROM drives in them natively? what OS runs them? do the s/w drivers have to be installed on the HD before connecting up the hardware to the board? I don't even know what OS either of these hard drives has loaded as startup. I have the system CD which runs 7.5, i have OS 8 new in the package, and my brother in law thinks he was running OS 9 on this HD before he put it up in storage. we don't know what's on the mac-lot HD. OK--we're gona do this together. you guys are my coaches. it'l be a group success. if you were here, what would you do with all this?? I do have antistatic wrist straps--2 of em. and remember to tell me when to use the CUDA reset button. Janet the ambitious http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- 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
