At 15:07 -0500 07/15/2002, R.A. Cantrell wrote: >I may have mis-identified my Supermac. It does have the 604e/200 processor. >It has the hemi-cylindrical scalloping on the front of the case, but on >the lower half only. It has what appears to be dual processor slots (the >lower one lines up with one of the PCI slots and has an odd bit in >between) In System profiler it said I had 80 mgs of ram 32 in the B4 16 in >the A3 8 in the B1 8 in the A1 and 16 in a space not labeled I put a dimm >into the slot marked A2. the Machine said I had put it in B3, which is >clearely still empty. Whazzup? Sytem Profiler says it has a 512 kb external >L2 cache I don't see any cahce, is it on the cpu card? (whew)
Apple System profiler must figure out what machine it is working on based on the things ASP can see. The 9500 has twelve RAM slots (A1-A6, B1-B6) but the 8500/7500 has only eight, like the S900. It is difficult for ASP to figure out what machine it is in because the 7500/8500/9500 and S900 all use exactly the same ROM chips, so it isn't like it can just read a machine name out of the ROMs on the motherboard. Now it can generally tell whether it's in a 9500 or a 7500/8500 either because the 9500 has 2 Bandit chips to the 7/8500's one, or because the 7/8500 have onboard video and the 9500 does not. However, the S900 has only 1 Bandit chip, but no onboard video, so ASP gets somewhat confused and sometimes thinks that the S900 is a 9500 and other times thinks it is an 8500. Furthermore, ASP reports the labels you would find on an Apple machine and Umax may not have labeled the slots in the same order as Apple. Finally, the S900 has 16 MB of RAM soldered to the motherboard. If ASP thinks the S900 is a 7/8500 then it gets really confused because it's expectly eight RAM slots, but there are eight plus this soldered on RAM. If ASP thinks the S900 is a 9500 it usually assigns the 16 MB motherboard RAM to one of the extra four slots that the 9500 has. So the short answer to your question is that ASP is confused because it's trying to do RAM assignments as if the S900 were an Apple machine. The 512KB L2 cache is soldered to the motherboard. Its the four square chips in the front/middle of the board opposite the PCI slots. It's soldered down. You can disable it either with software (if you use a G3/G4 card) or by soldering a jumper in at J38. But you won't want to do that as long as you are using a 604(e) processor. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
