I got a program called PCI Prober and took a look at my PCO bus on my PM 7500. Its at 33.3MHz which is good, but the bus data path is only 16 bit. First problem with this is that my video is at a million colors, I though this was impossible on a 16 bit bus? I have a Voodoo 3 3000 16MB PCI video card. Second, how do I get this on 32 bit? Is this 16 bit assumption corretc? Is there a ROM or extra chip I can buy or overclock to raise the speed? I also have a G3 300MHz Sonnet Crescendo CPU if it makes a difference. I don't know if the bus is controlled by the CPU or not. I've have been trying to fix a video problem. I get horrible performace out of full screen video. Any PII or AMD/Cyrix 300MHz equivilent PC would be able to handle video just fine. I know this Mac came far before PII and AMD K6 machines, but still, with this Sonnet upgrade I would expect to get at least that much more performance. The Mac runs absolutely awesome otherwise. Here are my exact system specs:
Power Macintosh 7500 @ 300MHz via Sonnet Crescendo G3 300/1M 36GB 10,000 RPM IBM/Hitatchi Hard Drive LVD SCSI III (OS) via Adaptec AHA2940UW PCI SCSI Controller 8GB 50 Pin SCSI II(?) Seagate 7200 RPM via same controller 32x 50 pin SCSI CD-ROM 160MB physical RAM 2MB Sony Floppy 16MB PCI Voodoo 3 3000 Video OS9 (soon 9.1, just reloaded, haven't updated yet) Despite previous arguments I will call the Apple Macintosh PC a "Mac" from now on and an IBM compatible PC a "PC" since this seems to be the correct terminology for this list. Thanks for any help, Mike -- 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
