IT'S ALIVE!!!

I collected all of my MDD bits together tonight and set about methodically testing. First I tried combinations of RAM sticks - they can't all have gone bad! And unlike last time I messed around with this box, I had found my stash of spare MDD CPUs, of which I was told one was good, and the other fried. I seem to remember being disappointed that the good one was slower, which made it the single 1GHz card. I cleaned the old thermal compound off of my heatsink and G4, dusted a bit, and let the alcohol dry. When I reassembled with new compound, threw two 512MB sticks of PC2700, and it started just fine. Actually, the freezing of this thing had gotten so bad that instead of running it for a few mintes at a time, I couldn't even boot without a freeze or a panic. So this is the first time I have even seen it boot in months. And so far there have been no problems. I am too psyched.

My dual 1.42 GHz card is indeed dead. On the lookout for a deluxe dual 7455 upgrade. At least it should be running much, much cooler now.