Actually, I got it. It seems to be a defective monitor. The last one (same model) wouldn't switch res's, but the other one (Both MultipleScan 720's) will. It says it goes up to 1280x1024 on MacTracker. This will only go up to 1024x768@75Hz and Thousands of Colors (832x624
Anyways, I took the machine apart inside and out and cleaned out the dust, then did some general maintnance on the tower. I snaked a SATA cable up to the top bay and put a 1TB SATA WD Green drive up there, threw in the appropriate adapter for power and threw my Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card in one of the slots. So now I have this setup:
PM 6500
225Mhz 603e w/256K L2 Cache
48MB (16MB + 32MB) RAM
Rage IIc 2MB SGRAM / MultipleScan 720 Monitor
3GB *Stock* ATA HDD in HDD bay / 1TB WD SATA HDD in top bay (covered by face plate, used a 5.25 -> 3.5" Adapter made from an old blue Zip drive bay adapter)
12x CD-ROM *Stock*
1.44MB/2.88MB Floppy
D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI Ethernet card / Sonnet Tempo SATA 2-port SATA card (works in system 7 too! works practically and damn-near every PCI mac I have thrown it into)
External Drives:
Yamaha 8x4x24 SCSI CD-RW, Zip 100, 1GB Apple ROM'd SCSI HDD in enclosure
I put OS 9.1 on this and it works decently. Fast enough for web if you use IExplorer 5 on it (Don't bother with classilla on this with that low of RAM.
Also just put iTunes 2 on the machine.
The Subwoofer on this computer is really nice. Not as deep as one you get in say... my Logitech 5.1 system, but if you put a decent pair of stereo speakers, it works well.
I also put that PlainTalk Mic on top of the monitor, but not sure if it works. gotta try it. These machines use the ridiculously long mic ports right? I believe it goes all the way in, but since the mic was sitting in with a box of random junk on the floor (I scoured the shop for anything mac related to see if I could get it thrown in) but I gotta test it (gonna get Sound Studio up and running on it)
I am going to try to also get more RAM (bump it up to 96MB or 128 hopefully) and also a CS II Ethernet card.
I won't even bother with video inputs or TV Tuner cards. TV tuners are obsolete, and the video inputs won't do me much good.
Anyways, I just love playing with this thing.
Anyone got a G3 L2 cache card for this they would sell for $30 shipped? I can also throw in stuff for trade!
Anyways, I took the machine apart inside and out and cleaned out the dust, then did some general maintnance on the tower. I snaked a SATA cable up to the top bay and put a 1TB SATA WD Green drive up there, threw in the appropriate adapter for power and threw my Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card in one of the slots. So now I have this setup:
PM 6500
225Mhz 603e w/256K L2 Cache
48MB (16MB + 32MB) RAM
Rage IIc 2MB SGRAM / MultipleScan 720 Monitor
3GB *Stock* ATA HDD in HDD bay / 1TB WD SATA HDD in top bay (covered by face plate, used a 5.25 -> 3.5" Adapter made from an old blue Zip drive bay adapter)
12x CD-ROM *Stock*
1.44MB/2.88MB Floppy
D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI Ethernet card / Sonnet Tempo SATA 2-port SATA card (works in system 7 too! works practically and damn-near every PCI mac I have thrown it into)
External Drives:
Yamaha 8x4x24 SCSI CD-RW, Zip 100, 1GB Apple ROM'd SCSI HDD in enclosure
I put OS 9.1 on this and it works decently. Fast enough for web if you use IExplorer 5 on it (Don't bother with classilla on this with that low of RAM.
Also just put iTunes 2 on the machine.
The Subwoofer on this computer is really nice. Not as deep as one you get in say... my Logitech 5.1 system, but if you put a decent pair of stereo speakers, it works well.
I also put that PlainTalk Mic on top of the monitor, but not sure if it works. gotta try it. These machines use the ridiculously long mic ports right? I believe it goes all the way in, but since the mic was sitting in with a box of random junk on the floor (I scoured the shop for anything mac related to see if I could get it thrown in) but I gotta test it (gonna get Sound Studio up and running on it)
I am going to try to also get more RAM (bump it up to 96MB or 128 hopefully) and also a CS II Ethernet card.
I won't even bother with video inputs or TV Tuner cards. TV tuners are obsolete, and the video inputs won't do me much good.
Anyways, I just love playing with this thing.
Anyone got a G3 L2 cache card for this they would sell for $30 shipped? I can also throw in stuff for trade!