Re: Is my poor Quadra 840AV dead?

2002-12-29 Thread Clark Martin
At 11:52 PM + 12/28/2002, SimPanda wrote: I have a Quadra 840AV that I found one day on my way home from work. I brought it home, hooked it up to my monitor and keyboard, and found it worked just fine. I decided to do a few upgrades on it by adding memory and filling the vram slots. Since then

Re: Is my poor Quadra 840AV dead?

2002-12-29 Thread E McCann
Sounds like something I had going on with one of mine... even tried it with one known good memory module that turned out to be not-so-good, and was causing the problem (though it would sit there for half an hour, finally give the not-quite-chimes-crash, and I could reboot and use it...) Try

Re: Q610 (was RE: CPU Chip Speed)

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 00:15 -0500 on 29/12/02, Scott Holder wrote: At 10:49 PM 12/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: Yes. You *need* the heatsink for the full 040 if you want it to keep working longer than a few hours. Well, I dunno about this. I have a 33mhz '040 with no heatsink in my Q605 running at 33mhz that had a

Re: Q610 (was RE: CPU Chip Speed)

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 22:05 -0600 on 28/12/02, otto hansen wrote: wow...well im glad I found this out.. would it work fine to take any heat sink that was big enough and just attatch it with thermal glue? I don't trust thermal glue any further than I can throw it, especially because it's usually next to impossible

Re: CPU Chip Speed

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 00:44 -0700 on 29/12/02, J Sand wrote: Also by swapping this chip into my 610 from a 577, did I increase the CPU speed from 20 to 33 or is there something on the MB I need to change also to take advantage of the faster chip? In order to make a part run faster, you have to modify the

Re: Re(2): 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread bduross
Dan, Out of curiosity, what software are you using for your webserver? I just put one up on my q950 and installed some mail software to replace one of my many ill-fated P3 systems and it keeps up really well. I was next thinking of attempting an AU/X install on a q800 since its probably one of

Re(2): Re(2): 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Palka
When I first set up my 8600 as a web server I toyed with a lot of server software, like Rumpus, WebStar, and even MS PWS. I found MacHTTP to be the best HTTP server to suit my needs, and NetPresenz to be the best FTP server. Both run simultaneously, ever single day, even right now, perfectly on

Re(2): 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 10:33 -0600 on 29/12/02, Dan Palka wrote: No I did not reformat, 7.1 was installed on another, already partitioned by 7.5.5 hard drive that I used to keep documents on. So I'm guessing they were Different hard drives cannot be compared by benchmarks because the hard disks themselves are much

Re: 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Palka
No actually its one 4gb drive with two 2gb partitions on it. 7.5.5 on one and 7.1.1 on the other. Nice try though :) -- From: Quadlist, Sun, Dec 29, 2002 -- At 10:33 -0600 on 29/12/02, Dan Palka wrote: No I did not reformat, 7.1 was installed on another, already partitioned by 7.5.5

Re: 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:17:22AM -0500, the pickle wrote: Furthermore, settings such as disk cache and disk driver version (did you reformat between installs?) can dramatically affect benchmarking results. This is true, but I did a comparison of 7.1 and 7.5.5, both fresh installs with

what about 7.6.1?

2002-12-29 Thread Frank Schäfer
Hallo, discussing the speed of 7.1 and 7.5.5, I'm interested in the competition of 7.6.1 with these.Any comments? nb. Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? Frank -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: what about 7.6.1?

2002-12-29 Thread Frederick Silliman
Frank Schäfer wrote: nb. Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? YES. -- Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imagine2020.com/737724502 -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To

Re: 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 14:34 -0600 on 29/12/02, Dan Palka wrote: No actually its one 4gb drive with two 2gb partitions on it. 7.5.5 on one and 7.1.1 on the other. Nice try though :) Still doesn't make for valid results. Which partition is physically closer to the spindle? -- the pickle FAQ

Re: what about 7.6.1?

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 21:35 +0100 on 29/12/02, Frank Schäfer wrote: discussing the speed of 7.1 and 7.5.5, I'm interested in the competition of 7.6.1 with these.Any comments? If you're gonna use 7.5.x, spend the $20 and upgrade to 7.6.1, because it's about a bazillion times (yes, that's a technical term) more

Re: 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread the pickle
At 14:29 -0500 on 29/12/02, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: This is true, but I did a comparison of 7.1 and 7.5.5, both fresh installs with identical settings, the same networking, and as close as possible on extensions and control panels. 7.5.5 was faster on my 50MHz '030 Mac IIci with 128MB of

Re: what about 7.6.1?

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Palka
The problem with 7.6.1 is I have to pay for it. on 12/29/02 3:00 PM, Frederick Silliman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Schäfer wrote: nb. Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? YES. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Dawe
on 29/12/2002, the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:35 -0600 on 29/12/02, Dan Palka wrote: System 7.1.1 proved to be not just slower, but significantly slower in several key areas, the biggest being disk access. Speedometer reported that disk access records were 143% in favor of

Digest Viewer homepage?

2002-12-29 Thread Tina Holm
Anyone know where it went? This page: http://www.macrules.com/users/mjh/ has a link to a .mac address that doesn't work either. Google Mac search gives no valid results. I don't need the app, just want to link to it. Tina *^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*

Re: Applescript

2002-12-29 Thread Jeff Walther
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:32:23 -0500 From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're going to be learning something from scratch, you might be best off downloading MacPerl and using that. Perl was built from the ground up as a text-handling language and from what little experience I have with it

Re: CPU Chip Speed

2002-12-29 Thread Jeff Walther
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:25:19 EST In a message dated 12/28/02 6:57:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I'm not sure what the XC or B means yet, still learning. RC is the package type: ceramic, pin-through hole, in this case. B is the step, the particular revision

Re: CPU Chip Speed

2002-12-29 Thread Frederick Silliman
Jeff Walther wrote: XC should read MC, meaning Motorola, not XC, and the LC will be absent on a full function chip Motorola often substitutes an 'X' for the 'M' in early runs of their chips. I forget the exact explanation of the meaning, but it's something like, this was an experimental

Re: Q610 (was RE: CPU Chip Speed)

2002-12-29 Thread otto hansen
In a 610, the CPU chip is very close to the power supply and that is a determining factor on the size of the heat sink. actually when I replaced the chip it was on the complete opposite side of the MB than the powersupply and I dont think anything else was in the way but when I bought the chip I

boot disk

2002-12-29 Thread Sque
Hi I'd like to boot different system folders from seperate partitions, what do I need to do this under 7.1 as the startup disk CP is rather useless for this as is Mt Everything. Thanks -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: boot disk

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Palka
Search for a program called SystemPicker. Its a control panel that you can use to bless a system folder, no matter where it is. on 12/29/02 9:48 PM, Sque at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'd like to boot different system folders from seperate partitions, what do I need to do this under 7.1 as

Re: what about 7.6.1?

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Palka
Nah Its still not worth the effort. I'm fine with 7.5.5. Why upgrade when I already think the OS is perfect. Theres nothing 7.6.1 could possibly give me. on 12/29/02 4:54 PM, Mark Benson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, Dec 29, 2002, at 22:52 Europe/London, Dan Palka wrote: The

Re: 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Palka
PowerTalk all around of course. on 12/29/02 6:22 PM, Michael Dawe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7 Pro, with PowerTalk removed is the same as 7.1 upgraded with the Scriptable Finder with the exception of one extra feature unavailable to 7.1, AFAIK. Very fast to boot, and runs in 3 Meg of RAM