--- Will S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your using XPFacto 3.0 (I recommend using the > newest if your going > to use it.I think a16 is the latest) you can switch > Ryan's L2 cache > control software on and off in the XPFacto control > panel. No need to > use OS 9 to make a new configure file.
For now I'm not using Xpostfacto because I don't have Panther, just Jag. Maybe I should try Xpostfacto. Then I could switch to Panther when I get it. >Very few > people seem to use > Ryan's current L2 software too buggy.The older > versions were fine. > As already mentioned I recommend Cache Contol X from > Powerlogix. Lots > of control shows what's on and off and lets you > change setting on the > fly for several things including L2 cache setting. > If you set it too > high it may crash your machine but will re-start > either with it off or > at a safe setting. I'm running PowerLogic's CPU Director right now, which sounds as though it does the same things as cache Control X. Cache Control X (the version someone emailed me, anyway) claims in the Readme not to support 533 mHz and above processors, which is right where mine is running. >Xbench is a free bench mark for > OSX. I've not found > it real helpful as no context for the info. But > should help with > comparing Cache on and off settings. I spoke with OWC tech support today, and they mentioned this. I've downloaded it, and my system seems to be slow in most categories compared to others using the what appears to be the same CPU in a 266 machine. It also says I have 1 meg cache, but nobody really knows how those numbers are generated in software and why Apple's System profiler disagrees with them when it should say the same thing. This is not a "stock" machine. In some cases though, it should be better than stock. It has 356 megs of PC66 RAM (slow), and 4 scsi external 9 gig drives (slow) and 2 internal 4 gig IDE drives (both stock OEM drives for this machine). It also has a flashed Sapphire 32 meg vid card. The monitor is a 19" Dell Trinitron running at 1280X960 with millions of colors. It also has USB, 10/100 ethernet, and the AV in/out card by Apple . XBench says it's all slow when compred to "similar sytems". The CPU, the video, the RAM, and the drives. I was hoping that nearly doubling the processor speed would have done more for the performance of the machine. Unfortunately, I didn't benchmark the thing prior to the change, so I can't make a good comparison without uninstalling everything. I bought one of these for one of my son's 266 as well. Hopefully he will run the tests before swapping CPUs. > I switch back to OS 9 by holding down the option > key when re-starting > from OSX works every time on the Umax. So the normal > boot is always > OSX. best of luck Will S How does it know which 9 to boot from if there's more than 1? I've got both 9.2 and at least one 9.1 ... maybe more. I had such a hard time booting to 9.1 (Ryan's software won't do the cache config numbers in Classic or 9.2) that I actually had to do another 9.1 install to make it work, and even then there was a time when it wouldn't boot in anything. I ended up taking all the cards and RAM out and going with as little as I could get away with to get it to go again, and then adding things back in slowly. Thanks, everyone, for all the help so far. Steve ===== Steve Hardy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
