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This Power Macintosh 7200 Makes Me Want To Commit Suicide.
This Power Macintosh 7200 Makes Me Want To Commit Suicide.
Hardware 34 posts
Oct 22, 2007 — Nov 19, 2007
All RAM is recognized.Does the system recognize all the RAM both on the motherboard and on the upgrade?? You wouldn't happen to have a 6500 you could try that out on would you?So much for sleep.
The Crescendo/7200 works in a 7500! It's like a really ghetto poor man's G3 upgrade for a 7500, but it works, DIMMs and all. It's all operative. Graphics appear to be accelerated too. Booted off a ZIP disk right now.
Wiping the hard drive now for a full OS 9 reinstall as the one on there was borked up.
I have both a 6400 and a 6500 I can test it on.
Go for it. I have been meaning to do that experiment but don't have the time or money right now. I'd be glad to pass on the honor of being the first to run OS X on a 6500 just to know that it works.All RAM is recognized.Does the system recognize all the RAM both on the motherboard and on the upgrade?? You wouldn't happen to have a 6500 you could try that out on would you?So much for sleep.
The Crescendo/7200 works in a 7500! It's like a really ghetto poor man's G3 upgrade for a 7500, but it works, DIMMs and all. It's all operative. Graphics appear to be accelerated too. Booted off a ZIP disk right now.
Wiping the hard drive now for a full OS 9 reinstall as the one on there was borked up.
I have both a 6400 and a 6500 I can test it on.
I've already run OS X on my 6500 [:I] ]'>
I had to do some really convoluted stuff. Only 10.1.5 worked, and it refused to use my Crescendo/L2, so it was booting off the 603ev. It was really slow and sometimes didn't boot or had some other weird crashes.
I had to do some really convoluted stuff. Only 10.1.5 worked, and it refused to use my Crescendo/L2, so it was booting off the 603ev. It was really slow and sometimes didn't boot or had some other weird crashes.
But since the 7200 upgrade is designed to bypass the onboard 601, it may also work to bypass the onboard 603 in the 6500, which the L2 upgrade can't do. With the additional RAM slots, you may actually be able to get enough memory into the system to keep Tiger happy.I've already run OS X on my 6500 [:I] ]'>
I had to do some really convoluted stuff. Only 10.1.5 worked, and it refused to use my Crescendo/L2, so it was booting off the 603ev. It was really slow and sometimes didn't boot or had some other weird crashes.