Ok all, so my work threw out this perfectly good 8500 with a Sonnet Tech G3 400 1MB cache card in it
I put a ata 33 card and a 20 GB IDE drive in it, removed the 2GB scsi drive, added a Radeon 7000 graphics card, and a 100 Mb Asante nic card I also had totally disassembled it, this includes taking apart the PSU, and now that its all back together, it doesn't really want to boot, it bongs, and the monitor comes on liek its going to get a signal, but there is no video, I hate opening the thing up, as many of you know, I'm sure, the 8500 case is not the best design made by Apple. Another problem I have is using the regular VGA connector on my Radeon 7000 card, because I can't plug the monitor cable into it cause its too close to the edge of the PCI slot, are there any fixes for this besides a dremel? I currently have a DVI to VGA convertor and am trying to tget the monitor to work from that, but its off and on right now. ITs a pretty good machien and much faster than my little army of compact macs, and I would liek it to be working really great, I kinda use it as a file server, connecting my compacts to its printer port using apple talk, and I needed to do this some more to get some programs installed on my compacts, but if it won't boot up its not much use :-/ I did do one mod to the 8500 so far, its not much, but I changed the green LED to a blue one, I don't think that would mess anything up as far as I know, but maybe I "know" wrong? -Joe ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! -- 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
