I'm setting up some older Macs for a community computer center. One is giving me some rather odd problems.
It is a 7500 with an xlr8 300MHz upgrade card.
The odd thing about it is that it is slower than molasses starting up. I don't mean, however, the system (OS 9.1) start-up, which is pretty normal.
I mean, opening up the first window, AFTER start-up. I turn the thing on, and double-click the hard drive icon, and... five minutes later the window finally opens. If I haven't already restarted the Mac out of frustration.
Nevertheless, it does get going, after a while. And behaves rather well most of the time. Programs open up from aliases nicely. Etc.
Anyone come across this before?
The machine only has 68MB of RAM, so that may be a problem. I'll be going to the center in a few moments, and I'll check to see what other problems it may have....
I don't recall the minimum required RAM for 9.1, but 68MB doesn't seem like enough. Virtual Memory combined with a slow, possibly fragmented hard drive is a big speed bump.
Other than that did you try the usual measures such as rebuilding the desktop, zapping PRAM, and/or pressing the CUDA button. Is the xlr8 software installed? Without it the L2 cache will not work, but even if the software isn't installed it shouldn't be nearly that slow.
-RPM
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