--- I've heard of not enough ram, but too much? I have 144 now and have another 256 on the way. I also have 9.1. Now I'm worried.
"A.Tuazon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
