My Reply follows quote. On 02/01/2006 11:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hope this will be a quick and easy one: I have a 7500/100 (ID 68, PPC604, >although the system profiler shows 120 MHz, probably was upgraded >already), that I wished to upgrade to a faster CPU. >A kind soul on the swap list sold me a 300 MHz 604e processor card, and >during the last few days I tried to swap the cards with no luck: the >faster one (Apple 820-0823-A, set @ 300 MHz) will not boot - no start-up >chime, no HD activity (other than the initial spin), nada. Plugging back >the original CPU brings the 7500 back to life. > >My question: is this a possible upgrade path? If yes, where did err? Do I >need to reset the CUDA and/or logic board? -------- It seems to me that there was a thread a while ago about 300MHz processors.
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