Hi folks, Thanks for the tips on the hard drive jumpers. I've now got the 9600 running with three scsi drives, two video cards (ATI Mach 64, IMS Twin Turbo 128), a 17 inch and a 19 inch monitor, a usb card, a fireware card and a G3 400 cpu upgrade. It boots fine into 8.5.1 or 9.1.
I hit a little snag adding ram. It was running great with 544 MB(2x16 + 4x128 with the 16's in B6 and A6 and the 128's in B5/A5, B4/A4). So I pulled the misc. sticks of RAM from the 9500, consisting of 2x8, 2x16, 1x128. This RAM was never a problem with the same CPU Card and hard drive. I added the RAM to the 9600 in matched pairs in B3/A3, B2/A2, and lastly stuck the unmatched 128MB stick in B1. This gave me 720. VM set to 121. It booted and ran, but had funny video behavior. After startup the desktop icons flashed up in silhouette very briefly, then disappeared, then slowly filled back in one icon at a time. Took about 10 seconds for the dozen or so icons to fill in. screen redraw was slow, particularly with stuff on the desktop, though app windows redrew fine. So I rearranged the RAM, started in B6 with the lone 128, then matched pairs from B5/A5 on down. I left out the two 8MB sticks figuring to keep the additions to a minimum for troubleshooting sake. Now it's at 688MB. Same flakey behavior. Went back to my original 544 configuration, and it was still flakey. Checked VM and it was still set to 721. I reset it to 545, restarted, everything was fine. I would like to be able to use the unmatched stick of 128 if possible. So here are my questions: 1) Does having one unmatched stick in there throw interleaving out the window for the rest of the load? 2) How would people suggest I load this RAM? A/B 6 down towards A/B 1 or from A/B 1 on up? Where should the unmatched stick go? 3) Any explanations for the flakey video behavior when VM is not set at 1 above the physical memory? Thanks again in advance. Steve __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.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
