What I have is a Power Macintosh 9600 with an Orange Micro PC 530 card inside it. The Orange Micro Card has a Pentium 233 MHz MMX processor and 128 Mb of on board memory. I started with Orange Micro's 3.1.1 software and upgraded to the last release (that I know of) 3.4.2. The windows installation that came with this package was NT 4.0 (with I believe, no service packs).
The way Orange Micro intended for this package to run is more or less as follows. I boot the Mac. Next I double click on the Orange Micro PC icon. The Orange Micro package kicks in and Windows NT comes up, goes through its check routine and tells me that it can not find a connection to the outside world. That's problem number one. I need to be able to get the Orange Micro Card in touch with the outside world. I have a small Mac (and hopefully soon to be Mac and PC) network that operates on a hub through the built in EtherNet connections on the 9600, an iMac, and added on EtherNet cards on two 7100's, and a IIci. Each machine is supposed to be able to get to the outside world through a DSL modem. My problem right now with the system could probably be fixed by going to a router that would assign IP addresses to each machine, including the Orange Micro PC. If that does not work, then I am going to have to learn how to manually assign separate static IP addresses to the 9600 and the Orange Micro PC. Once the Orange Micro PC is able to get to the EtherNet it will be able to: connect with the rest of my Macs through some program like Dave, and will be able to access the networkable printer and scanner, and get to the DSL modem. In other words become a fully functioning member of the computer group. I have a student version of Pro/Engineer 2001 on the Orange PC. I also managed to put Service Pack 6a, 128 bit encryption on the NT 4.0 system. I tried first with the check build version, and that didn't work. It just locked up. SP6a 128 improved things quite a bit. It let me install Norton Utilities for Windows 2001 and Norton Anti-virus for Windows 2001. I am a model railroader so I also put on a nice little CAD package called CADRail which lets me design model railroads. At this point I have filled all but about 30% of an 800 Mb Windows partition on the 9600. The NT software and Orange Micro software will allow drives up to 1600 Mb in size. The set up software has a feature that is supposed to allow the C drive to be expanded when I am in the Orange Micro Program but the Orange Micro PC is not active. Every time I have tried it, it tells me that the index for the free space is corrupt and I need to run ScanDisk to correct that. I do not, apparently, have ScanDisk. Although I do have ChkDsk, which I have run repeatedly to no avail. The other difficulty I have encountered is that I am supposed to be able to add drives and equipment through the setup procedure on the Mac side, simple by choosing the folder or the drive. So far that process has not worked. I got rid of a temporary D drive that was created when I upgraded the software from 3.1.1 to 3.4.2. I believe that helped the situation some since that drive appeared to be invisible to the Mac. The setup procedure sees the zip drive on my Mac as a SCSI, not ATAPI, unit (which is correct) lists it, but then it does not show up in "My Computer" on the PC side. Nor do any folders I have selected. The reason I am doing all of this is that I am an Engineer and need to be able to run a reasonably new, full up version of AutoCAD. AutoCAD 2000i should run on this and I can get a legitimate, full up copy that is upgradable. My wife can also do web work on the Orange Micro PC and check to see if her Mac stuff works on PC's. So, I am now looking for other Orange Micro PC users who can help me, and whom eventually I can help. Best wishes, Neal P.S. My comments still stand about PC vs. Mac. A friend bought a brand new PC for use with AutoCAD LT 2004. It came from HP. It has Windows XP I installed Norton Anti-virus for him and did several other things. That operating system is still not user friendly as compared to a Mac. I guess what amazes me is that Windows people, especially their bosses, put up with this as though it was one of the inevitable fates of life. I have had IT people tell me (at places where I worked) that if we changed to Mac (or even added Macs), they would leave. I think the IT people and their attitude scares the bosses who don't know how to use their computers. So they let the IT people run the companies for fear those IT people will leave and they won't know how to take care of their computers. Those bosses/managers have been sold a bill of goods that says that Macs are toys and that only art and marketing people use Macs. So, in most companies that do manufacturing or technical work, the PC, with all its problems, continues to rule. WNL Carrie L. Lewis - Horse Painter Member of The Equine Art Guild http://www.equineartguild.com/carrielewis Visit My eBay Auctions at http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/horse_painter -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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