Hi all, New to the list but not to the Mac. I bought a used G4 500 that opens some windows quickly and others, a little slower. When I got the machine a few weeks ago, the discrepancy was even greater and startup took a long time. I had only had it up for 2 hrs when it died. Did all the normal stuff-resetting PRAM, unplugging everything, removing RAM etc-before sending back to the seller who figured it might be the powersupply or the motherboard. He sent it back w/o telling me what it was. It still takes 5 minutes to fully start up and as I said, it opens some things just fine and others not as quickly. Certainly better than before but still, I expect consistently faster performance. I'm in the middle of a project for work so I don't have the time to really look too closely into this. What's bothering me is that this is a replacement for an 8500 w/a Sonnet G4 card but it seems a little slower than that. My best guess is maybe it's the IDE drive (40g Maxtor, don't know if it's 5400 or 7200rpm) or an Open Firmware that needs to be updated from its current 3.26. I also read somewhere that the ATI Rage Pro AGP card is slow at displaying certain graphics. Sorry about the long post. Any help is appreciated in advance. thanks
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