I had a Quadra 630 that I upgraded with a Power Macintosh 5500/250 motherboard, which is the same motherboard as the 6400/6500 series. (The 6400, 6500 have a 2 slot PCI riser that must be removed to fit in the slim cases of the 630, 6200, and 6300 series) I did not need to perform any modifications to the power supply. I just slid in the motherboard and screwed it in and viola! it worked.
----- Original Message ----- From: "tortoise" <[email protected]> To: "Vintage Macs" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Performa 630 - my first pre imac G3 Apple! And a bargain! On Aug 9, 12:17 pm, Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > my Performa 638 had an IDE hard drive and a SCSI CD-ROM > > these are the ones with the FPU-less 68040 right? > > if i remember correctly, i had once stuck in an 80GB Maxtor IDE; it worked > no problem but i think it took hours (days even?) to do a full format I put a 4GB ide in mine and I did partition it, in fact I formatted it on my beige g3 with 8.6. (8.1 can tolerate that, but System7 may not) > > i am pretty sure you can attach a SCSI hard drive to the 50-pin CD-ROM > cable The cd has a special connector, it may be hard to do that > > i also had 2x64MB 72-pin simms in there too, and it took a couple of > minutes > to coldboot (memory test) Mine has 1 because it only has one slot. Some have two but not all. you can also use a 128 in the one slot, the other takes a max 64MB and it must be one-sided. > > so about the hard drive, pretty much any IDE drive will do it > About the motherboard, yes you can upgrade to ppc (I wouldn't swear to the specific number tho w/out checking). Some people have said here that you may need to upgrade the power supply also. I believe there was an upgrade card which would not need that. You should research these things carefully before you buy (sites such as Low End Mac can help). Probably the RAM of 192 is max, it is only more if you have the one- sided before. For ethernet I have a card in the LC slot. (the card is called an LCII (like but not same as in MacII) ) The main problem I have with mine is that the sound is not stereo and it is not cd quality. however the cd does play in stereo full quality through the headphone jack (cd drive has built in analog output). Too bad with the extra RAM it could record nicely with a big drive. My powerbook 540 has stereo both ways but lack play through and short on RAM (same era). Oh, well. Maybe though a powerpc would help all that. I haven't the TV card so I can't comment on that. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
