On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>> ...they added more to it
>> when they made the
>> PowerMac though IIRC. you have to reset the PRAM on
>> a PPC Mac every time
>> you move the RAM, VRAM, CPU, Hard disks etc., most
>> irritating :(.
>
> I haven't had to zap the PRAM when doing that on my
> Radius 81/110, which is just an 8100 with a DB15
> video plug instead of the HDI45 connector.
I had to do it a lot on my 7500, I nce couldn't get it to boot with 2
new RAM sticks in and a zap got it going. It may not be so prominent on
early machines, it certianly is on PCI machines. The CUDA switch is a
more thorough way of doing it too, you are advised to lean on this every
time you swap a CPU/RAM DIMM/Hard Disk/Video card (if you have one)/VRAM
SIMM etc... to ensure the machine fully resets itself and recognises the
hardware. It is possible to do without but I never managed it. May just
be easier on Nubus Macs.
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