I tried a 5400 board in my 638CD and it wouldn't boot... would I need to mod my PSU to make it work properly?
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnetic Control Industry" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:44 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Performa 630 - my first pre imac G3 Apple! And a bargain! > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
