Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:35:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregg Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've found my Turbo 601 upgraded IIci to be a much less "twitchy" computer than my Radius 81/110, which itself is far less troublesome than my 7300/200.
Whoa!?! I had a Turbo601 for a few years (I wrote the article on converting the 66 MHz to 90 - 96 MHz). I found the thing to be very twitchy when you started adding many NuBus cards. And it makes sense to me that if one is going to upgrade a IIci like that, one would naturally want a JackHammer in there as well, otherwise, why would one bother? Daystar did a bang up job on the thing, but as the saying goes, the amazing thing is not that the bear dances so well, but that the bear dances at all...
The Radius 81/110 is literally an 8100 board with a different video connector. The resistors are even all in the same places. It should be exactly as twitchy/untwitchy as an Apple 8100.
Clearly our mileages vary. :-)
Every time I do _anything_ to the 7300 I find myself having to do a clean OS reinstall.
Have you tested your RAM using RAMometer and the RAM Sandwich method? When the inexpensive 128 MB DIMMs became available there was a lot of flawed memory sold--memory that often passes the start up test but nevertheless has a problem. My x500 (Powersurge) machines are very reliable though I do run into many more frustrations getting PCI cards working together than I ever had with good ol' NuBus cards.
Jeff Walther
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