[SM] J-700

[Scott Birdwell]

It's alive!  IT'S ALIVE!  FrankenMax lives!  I finally got him to boot 
up last night.  The problem I was having with the hung extension turned 
out to be the Iomega Driver Extension which is included in OS 9.1.  Any 
of you ever have a problem with this before?  I also have a problem if 
I load the Sonnet Upgrade Extension.  The Sonnet Enabler that mounts 
with the install disk doesn't create problems.  The System Profiler 
states that the processor speed is 445 - 450 mHz without the extension 
(this is a 400 G3 that I bought used on eBay).  The little Metronome 
window claims the machine is running at 400 mHz.  I'm not sure why the 
discrepancy and why this upgrade seems to work without the extension, 
but it apparently does.  The machine runs pretty fast, I must say.  I'm 
running 512 meg RAM plus the 16 meg on the motherboard.  I'm probably 
going to max it out.  RAM is still cheap. . .

I'm trying to install a Powerlogix Rapidfire USB/Firewire card, but 
it's not happening.  According to their site, this is compatible with 
the J-700, but if you're running OS 9.1 you supposedly have to have the 
card installed before your install the OS.  This would be impossible in 
this case, as, of course, OS 9.1 is the original OS for me on this 
beast.  Ideas on how to make this work?  Can I disable the Firewire 
extensions, install the card, re-boot and then re-install the 
extensions?  I sent Powerlogix tech support an email this morning and 
am awaiting a reply.  Does it matter which PCI slot I install it in?  
(According to the motherboard, "a" is the slot  next to the serial 10 T 
Base card and "D" is the slot next to the video card).

Also, I have an Asante Fast Ethernet card to install, with the same 
"which slot" question.  Actually, my question goes deeper.  I have 
recently upgraded a PM 9500 which came equipped with a 10 T Base card 
built in.  This is a Comm Slot II card, which, apparently, is a bit 
unusual.  I started looking around for a 10/100 card, as I was under 
the impression that the 10 card would only process data at a tenth of 
the speed of a 10/100.  In the meantime, I hooked up the 9500 to a 
cable modem & router next to my iMac 400 DV, typed in an internet 
address in both and hit "return" at the same time.  Bamm!  There was 
virtually no difference between the two in load time.  I was shocked.  
Do I not understand the difference between a 10 Base & 10/100 Base 
card?   Shouldn't there be a noticeable difference in the load times?  
If not, I guess I'll be selling a 10/100 card on the swap list, huh?

I'm still having issues with my CD-ROM, as in it's not working at all.  
I'm think I'm going to try to hook it up via my external CD-RW 
enclosure and see if that'll do the trick.  If nothing else, I can buy 
a brand new one from OWC for $25.  That and the extra RAM can keep each 
other company on the trip down.

Thanks mucho to everyone that has offered assistance!

Scott Birdwell
DeFalco's Home Wine & Beer Supplies
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