Howdy List - I was recently lucky enough to get a great deal on a 7600 on Ebay from a very reputable seller. To my delight, instead of the 32 megs of ram and 132 MHz CPU as advertised the machine had 144 megs and a 180 MHz 604e from a 7300 and the full four megs of video.
That's the end of the good news. I've spent the last week trying to set it up to run with stability. I am getting errors almost constantly, more times than not even on booting. The whole assortment of common errors, error 11, bus errors, system 3 errors, finder has quit errors, and on and on. I'm starting to think that maybe my system board is bad. The only obvious problem is that there are three DIMM slots with broken tabs. I tried so far, swapping memory in and out all the way down to a single 32 meg DIMM in all various slot combinations; tried using the onboard SCSI only, using a Powerdomain 2930CU instead and I just bought an Acard Ultra66 ATA controller (not really great troubleshooting technique - but I wanted the added speed anywhoo). So far no joy. What really throws me is that I'm now even getting those errors when trying to install OS 9.1 from the CD to the new eight gig Seagate IDE drive with only the 8X Apple CD Drive on the original SCSI bus. The 2930 is out of the machine. I don't know much Mac but I do know that the errors 3 and 11 are software errors usually, no? I haven't tried taking out a bank (two chips) of Vram to see if that helps. But I guess that's next. Other than that I only have two possible explanations. That my system board is flaky or that my OS 9.1 is corrupted (Though it installed on a Power Center 132 that I had very briefly without any troubles.) I'm a PC user since 1985 and have been making a living off my PC and networking experience since then. I feel like a babe in the woods now and have only a couple of intermittent Mac experiences (with machines to slow to really be satisfactory) Thank you if you've read along this far and I would appreciate any ideas! Almost a Mac User Mike Wafkowski --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 8/21/02 -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
