Hi All, I've been lurking for a few weeks and thought I'd check in. I have a Power Computing (just CAN'T call it a PC!) PowerBase 180 tower with 96 mb (one 8mb and two 32mb) memory and a 1.2 gig hd. I've upgraded with a Sonnet Crescendo G3 400mhz. It's currently running 9.0.4. This was my main machine (under original power pc chip) until I bought a Beige G3 3 yrs ago. Two fairly recent troubles; 1. the cd failed...nada, nothing! Replaced with a Matsushita (sony?) CD-RW that did not come with an adapter for sound hookup. Any suggestions? I've looked around online and am about ready to create my own. 2. A start up problem where the machine would load to the Mac "happy-face", hang for awhile, then shut down. This was due (apparently) to a loose memory chip. Pushed it into place and viola! System back to normal. Have a usb card and firewire card installed. The usb is fine (only a Logitech 2 button mouse so far), can't load the firewire install disc for the drivers, cd works fine in the G3 beige drive, not in the matsushita on the powerbase...get a growling noise and it just spins. Doesn't seem to be a vibration, at least not a constant one. Will try to get driver onto G3 and then to a zip disk tonight. No graphics PCI card, had an xres, but doesn't seem to work with OS 9, and there are no updates (or am I wrong?). Sorry to be long winded (fingered?), and throwing in extra topics, just glad to find this group. Power On! Bob F.
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