First of all.....find a cheap 7200//75 on eBay or wherever and transplant the mobo into it. I've done....like 40 of these "Frankenmac" conversions and access to everything becomes a walk in the park instantly! If it still is a boggle...say.....bye-bye to said mobo. Just a suggestion Mikie > I went through a huge annoyance with my 8500 recently. > First of all these old cases are annoying. Making > changes to the cards on the motherboard is time > consuming, for each troubleshooting step requires > dis-reassembly. > > I added some ram and insta-crash. So pull new ram, > still insta-crash. Ultimately I ended up pulling > everything off the board but one stick of ram, > processor and ixmicro video hard. The cache card had > gone bad. So as time consuming as it is, I'd pull > everything and start adding things back in 1 at a > time. It took hours, literally. > > As for slow booting, these machines do boot slow when > working correctly with decent ram and a good extension > set. G4's make these look like molasses. I'd turn > off the memory test if possible as well. > > Of course it could be the motherboard... > > Mike wrote: > > 9500/132 MHz, OS 8.6, 64 to 512 MB RAM, IX Micro > Ultimate Rez Video > card > > Was slow as molasses booting previously with older RAM > (1-64MB stick > and 4-16MB sticks). All desktop icons would appear > slowly one at a > time until eventually whole desktop was loaded. At on > time this > system worked well but eventually, after several > different OS > installs, then going back to 8.6 performance was still > s-l-o-w. > > Removed old RAM, Put in 4 new OWC 128 MB sticks of > RAM, replaced PRAM > battery. > No boot. Took apart and tried many different RAM > configurations, > thinking it was problems with the new RAM. This is a > 9500 case and > we're talking 10-20 times, always checking for proper > seating of > processor and video card. Tried CUDA switch on > several occasions, > still no change. > > I got it to boot with different RAM configs and also > with a my old > processor from my 8500. Still the same slow crawl of > desktop icons > appearing at startup. Bigger problem was it would > freeze up as soon > as I attempted anything, like clicking to open a > folder or app or > attempting to open Apple System Profiler. > > Tried different keyboard and mouse. Same result. > > Figured I should put the old RAM back and try. Boots > with the old RAM > but freezes at any command or mouse click. Tried with > extensions off. > Still freezes at any action. > > Disconnected HD and tried booting from CD. Freezes at > first splash > screen and will not complete the boot. > > I can't check the system or make any changes because > it locks up. > > I am starting to think the MB is just bad or otherwise > I can't figure > out what the choke point is when any type of command > is given. Can > the video card be responsible for such behavior? > > I am ready to dump this thing even though I have a G4 > processor and > new hard drive standing by to upgrade it. > > I'm looking for good suggestions here or it's soon to > be sold for > parts. > > Thanks - Mike > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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