In the course of putting more RAM into my PTP 225 with a Sonnet Crescendo G3/450/1M card, I somehow or other managed to toast the latter!
Fortunately (??) I had a MAXpowr G3/500/1M card sitting in an unused PowerMac 9600 I recently got. So I tried putting it into my PTP. No luck! When starting up with various installations of OS 9.1 and 9.2.2, the system bombs, usually just after the words "Starting Up" appear. The message in the box sometimes refers to "Error 11", sometimes to a "Bus Error", and more often to a nonspecific system error telling me to try starting up with extensions off. (This happens even when I have started up with extensions off!) I even tried the card in my other PTP that has only a stock video card, so it's not a matter of my PCI cards. At one point in the process, I put the card back in the 9600 and it worked, so I presumably didn't kill it! Originally, BTW, the MAXpowr's switches were set to 1 and 4 on, which is supposedly the setting for Mach V machines, even though the 9600 says "9600/200" on the front! During a later stage of trying to get the thing working in my PTP, I found instructions saying that the switches should all be off, so I reset them. But the problem persists! Anybody have any idea what might make the thing work? Some other switch settings? I'm presently using the same machine with a PTP 604/250 card and a PTP 1M L2 Cache DIMM and it's working fine. (Well, there are other long-standing problems that I won't bother writing about now. They are almost certainly software problems.) But I would really like to be using a faster processor again. (I haven't even tried my 48X CD-R with the slower processor yet!) BTW, I have not used the L2 Cache DIMM when trying the MAXpowr G3 card. I didn't use it with the Sonnet and I presume I shouldn't use it with any card that has a backside cache. - Aaron P.S. Since the MAXpowr card was running in the 9600 with the switches set for a Mach V, I'm wondering if the 9600 might have a Mach V motherboard even though it says "9600/200" on the front. I know that the 9600/200 should have the L2 cache soldered on the logic board. Where should it be and what does it look like? -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:powercomputing@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
