A couple comments on the Twin turbo card: The non-apple TwinTurbo cards without a factory-installed moveable jumper can be modified to have one, if you're handy with a soldering iron. I have a picture of the mode on my web page.
Also, when booting OSX this card will not display the apple logo correctly (shows a bunch of vertical strips), but when OSX is up and running, it works just fine from there on. As Will said, there are many variants of this card out there, so YMMV. I am currently running jaguar (10.2.8) on an upgraded (G3/450) S900 with this Twin Turbo, an Atto UW SCSI controller, and no IDE drives, so it IS possible. To echo another poster's comments, get as much RAM as you can, these are still a great bargain: From macsales.com (OWC) 128MB Mac 5V EDO 168 Pin DIMMs just $17.50 while they last. I have 8 of these in my S900 and 1GB of RAM doesn't suck. Remember to turn off the startup memory tests once you're sure your memory is operating properly, with this much RAM, it takes about 4-5 minutes to startup otherwise. Good luck! -Barrey Will S wrote on 4/21/2004, 10:52 PM: > > From: joseph pino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 5. Replace video card (re. current thread on video cards) > > The twin turbo video card may work fine in OSX or the color maybe off > a bit. Not easy to give an answer. Most people who talk about the twin > turbo working or not seem to think all the twin turbos are equal. > Nothing could be more mistaken. There are more versions of the twin > turbo then most of us can keep track of ! iMicro made special versions > of the card for every company who bought them it seems. There are 2 mb > cards that can be upgraded to 4mb and ones that can't be upgraded. 4mb > cards and 8 mb cards. Then to make things fun all of these come in > Apple and non Apple firmware versions. The Apple firmware are perhaps > the best cards in many ways and easy to spot. They have the Apple > monitor port only. The other versions have Apple and vga ports. The > Apple cards run using the drivers built into the Mac OS . The other > cards use the twin turbo drivers and control panel in OS 8/9 . They > also have what is called sync on green which was needed for monitors > no longer made and the software controls turning it off and on. No > software was ever made for OSX so you end up with a green cast screen. > But wait some cards have jumper pins to control sync on green but only > some. Confused yet and more then you wanted to know ;-) ? So it will > likely work and if you have the right card the picture will be fine! > (the Apple cards don't have the sync on green issue) > > Am I missing anything else? > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
