On 3/31/06, Sven Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my 2 b&w rev1 and rev2 run both latest tigers without any need to use > xpf on them. Both dual head with radeon 7000s
How did you install it? Do you have internal DVD drives or use Tiger on CD? All the B&Ws that I have seen have only CD-ROMs internally, and I have found that the machines cannot boot off a Firewire DVD drive. That's why I had to use XPF to install - it writes the boot files to the hard disk, so that the machine can boot off hard disk and load the installer off DVD. When installed, they run quite well. They're not fast but they are usable and stable and noticeably quicker than a Beige. > I found out that the pci bus can be problematic when it uses too much > system resources. Quartz extreme hack and using controllers (Firewire > and/or ATA Cards) crashed those boxes. Maybe that's a point... Thanks for the hint. I have read of this, yes, but I don't (yet) have QE-capable video cards, so I've not tried PCI Extreme. Since QE can not enable 2D acceleration - only certain video cards can do that, and none of them are available on PCI - I will probably wait until I can afford a G4 with AGP before putting a fancy video card in. > You have those boxes on their original cpu and bus clocks - say that > u - or someone - don't tuned them with changing the clock jumper > blocks ? Yes, they're stock 400MHz units. I did overclock my Beige to 333MHz with some success - I might try on these machines, now that they are stable. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! Changing the RAM seems to have done the trick & given me stable machines, but I now have about a gigabyte of PC100 RAM that I can't use in my Macs... :¬( -- Liam Proven · Blog, homepage &c: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · GMail/Google Talk/Orkut: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 · Mob: +44 7939-087884 · Fax: +44 870 1271528 AOL/AIM/iChat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · MSN/Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Skype: liamproven · ICQ: 73187508 -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
