Picked up a 9600 G4/800 today, 512 MB Ram, a 4 GB SCSI drive and a 10 GB IDE drive driven off an IDE/USB/Firewire card. Radeon 7000 Video card and the usual floppy and CD drives. Case is a little rough in a couple of spots but not too bad.
When I first tried to power it up the PS would only click and the PS fan would make a feeble attempt to run. Thought I had been screwed with a DOA, but after some head scratching I replaced the Pram battery on a whim and viola, it fired right up. My impression was that the IIfx was the only Mac that required a good Pram battery to start up, but another bit of useful info.
None of the four Ram sticks have markings that match anything I can find, so don't know if they're EDO or FPM.
Interestingly, Apple System Profiler says the G4 is a 450 but TattleTech says it's an 800...which is correct?
When I first tried to power it up the PS would only click and the PS fan would make a feeble attempt to run. Thought I had been screwed with a DOA, but after some head scratching I replaced the Pram battery on a whim and viola, it fired right up. My impression was that the IIfx was the only Mac that required a good Pram battery to start up, but another bit of useful info.
None of the four Ram sticks have markings that match anything I can find, so don't know if they're EDO or FPM.
Interestingly, Apple System Profiler says the G4 is a 450 but TattleTech says it's an 800...which is correct?