I'm not sure if BeOS is going to work, each time it crashes when I click on the BeOS launcher it just locks up the machine with a black screen, and it won't boot from the cd at all.
When I tried to turn the machine off with the G3 card out(since I know that BeOS doesn't work with G3 or G4 CPUS) It doesn't even chime, which leads me to believe that the original CPU was in the slot that the G3 card is now.
I did find Sonnet PCI X installer on the hard drive, which can allow easy installation of OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (10.2 if I upgrade the installer), so I might actually try that.
This machine is quite responsive with everything I've thrown at it so far.
I'm actually posting this from the 8500 using classilla 9.2.2 under Mac OS 9.2.2
Which I find interesting, the previous owner had actually used OS9Helper to install OS 9.2.2, and it runs really smooth.
As for the ide card: It's a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 card.
There actually isn't a Zip100 drive inside either (was very tired when I picked them up) it's just a 1.44MB Floppy drive. 8-o
When I tried to turn the machine off with the G3 card out(since I know that BeOS doesn't work with G3 or G4 CPUS) It doesn't even chime, which leads me to believe that the original CPU was in the slot that the G3 card is now.
I did find Sonnet PCI X installer on the hard drive, which can allow easy installation of OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (10.2 if I upgrade the installer), so I might actually try that.
This machine is quite responsive with everything I've thrown at it so far.
I'm actually posting this from the 8500 using classilla 9.2.2 under Mac OS 9.2.2
Which I find interesting, the previous owner had actually used OS9Helper to install OS 9.2.2, and it runs really smooth.
As for the ide card: It's a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 card.
There actually isn't a Zip100 drive inside either (was very tired when I picked them up) it's just a 1.44MB Floppy drive. 8-o