It would be perfect for your needs.
Ron On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Michael Day wrote:
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 MikieI 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
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