Well here's an update of what's happened so far with my adventure with the 9500. I've given up on it as I am noticing weird power supply performance from it. Sometimes it goes on, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it shuts down all by itself if the machine is running for a couple of hours. I've only noticed this with the carrier card w/a G3/300 ZIF installed in it. Putting in the old daughter card processor seems to make it more stable.
I've put back everything that came with it, installed 9.1, Office 2001, and educational software on it's lone 1GB hd. I'm giving it to my niece and hopefully, if it runs well enough she'll be a new Mac convert. Now I've concentrated on my old 7300 which had problems with the ATA card as well. I originally posted my problem as concerning a 7200. My typo. It's a 7300/200 and I wanted to use it at my job for video editing (nothing professional). Bruce Johnson had replied to my original posting regarding the 7300 saying that the problem could be the RAM and he was 100% correct. Thanks Bruce! Fiddling with the RAM I was slowly able to get the ATA card working in the 7300! I noticed that using 80MB of RAM or less and mixing various sizes of RAM did the trick. I kept getting problems when installing 9.1 on the 40GB attached to it. Since the 4GB SCSI had 9.1 on it already I decided install Jag on the 40GB. BTW I replaced the 604e processor with the XLR8 carrier ZIF and G3/300 -- it runs great on it. I also put the 604e processor into the 9500. Jaguar installed without a hitch on the 40GB drive (using Xpostfacto) and I've been able to upgrade it with all the upgrades required. I slowly added back the extra RAM and it runs great. Using a program from XLR8 I was also able to access the backside cache of the G3 processor. Jaguar is very usable on this machine. One problem I encountered : If I boot into 9.1 I can't seem to boot back into X as 9.1 doesn't like the extra ram in the machine and makes the ATA card useless. Anyone have any ideas as to how to get around this ? -- 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
