Recent content by phipli

Ah right, sure, if it boots to desktop that is a good sign, the card wont do anything without a driver installed. You don't need Mac OS 8. I've run G3 upgrades in System 7.1.2 on my 6100 (although that is being silly, and a later OS would be better, perhaps 7.6.1 or 8.1 if you have enough RAM).

Find attached stuffit archives (hqx'd) of the contents of the two discs CHRP installer tomes.

Often the System Folders on installer CDs are crippled so they don't work from hard disks. Have you tried just installing it, and making sure the system enabler is in there? Perhaps try adding an iMac age appropriate 'Mac OS ROM' to the system folder for open firmware to find. Out of curiosity...

If it isn't booting it isn't because of drivers. Without the driver, a 6100 will just boot from its built in processor. Try cleaning the edge contacts and the PDS slot with contact cleaner spray.

The boards are very similar - The 7100 and 8100 are based on the 6100. The 6100 is close to the prototype for the whole family and late on the team were asked to add a medium and higher end model. At their core, they're all very similar with the main difference being in the memory and nubus...

I think that works with files and folders, but not disks. ResEdit wont let you select a disk, I assume because it is a device, not an object on a device. "Get Info" is disabled and only enables when you select a file or folder.

Oh, there is a cunning way to do that. In Drive Setup, select the disk and go to "Customize Volumes..." Then select the partition you don't want to mount. Deselect "Automount on startup" and it wont appear on boot. You can manually mount it using various utilities including Drive Setup, and...

Oh, another thing, the Total Systems version of that board (same firmware and schematic, different layout) has an auxiliary power header for when you're using it in older macs like the Plus if I remember correctly - is there something similar on the Performer?

Have you tried http://download.macintoshgarden.org/apps/Gemstart_Universal_7.1.SEA_.hqx. The Performer software is just a rebranded version of GemStart and this is a much newer version that is meant to support all sorts of cards from that family of cards. Not making any promises, but good luck.

No sorry, unfortunately neither of those would work in a a Quadra 840av to my knowledge. The 840 PSU has a female socket and a cable. Its the same as the one in the 8100, and you can use an 8500 one in it. That's really interesting, I don't have an 800, but I do have an 800 board and I assumed...

I hadn't, but I had come around to the same information via another route. I have the schematics they're talking about for the 6500 so I can double check things and make sure it matches what I'm seeing on the 4400. I've ordered an SMD 50MHz crystal, it takes longer to dismantle the machine than...

I... if your machine doesn't think that it is a supported machine because you hacked your OS, there isn't much I can do. The software crashes if you try to run it on a real LC 580 so it wont run on something that is reporting as a 580.

I managed to speed bump my PM4400/200 to 240MHz. Turns out the answer was written on the silkscreen of the Motorola StarMax! You can set the speed to anything between 80MHz and 240MHz (in mostly 20MHz steps). I got an 11% improvement in Norton System Info's CPU benchmark overall (from Norton...

@GerrySch I doubt you've killed your SE/30 completely. The most likely thing is that you've put the tantalum capacitors in backwards. Irritatingly, they're marked backwards compared to regular electrolytics. The symptoms you describe are exactly what happens when you put tantalums in...

A fair. I'd forgotten you said that because I have a box full of caps and wasn't thinking. So that is a slightly different situation, it is still... not great to run a machine without capacitors. Sometimes you get serious transients that can damage a chip, the caps soak them up. I know you...