Bit of some disappointing news. I got the CPU in but I had to go on an emergency trip for a family member that went into the hospital (they are ok now thankfully) but last night I put the system together. The results are as follows:
The CPU they sent me was NOT 366Mhz, it was 266!! I have filed a complaint on ebay. The person listed it at 366Mhz and the CPU clearly shows it as 266Mhz. What's worse is that the CPU will not even overclock to 300Mhz. So I am stuck at 266Mhz. On top of that, I didn't realize when I bought it that the shipped was marked up (I was tired when I bought it) meaning the CPU with shipping cost me $25!!! I am going to want at LEAST half my money back. I could've bought a 266Mhz for $5 on ebay with shipping at that time. So it ticks me off
I think one of the RAM sticks that came in is dead. The system will not boot with it installed. I will try to troubleshoot more tonight. It's possible the slot is bad, or I didn't get it all the way in. I will report back later
the 36GB 15k RPM Ultra320 SCSI drive will not work on the 50-pin. I don't think the drive can speak in narrow SCSI mode. I found a 4GB SCSI drive that works fine (Ultra160) but the 36GB will not report. I have no way to put jumpers on the drive either to try to force it. I have done all the usual SCSI voodoo/etc... and it still can't be found. I know the drive works. I was using it on a 68-pin LSI MegaRAID card in a PC. The drive is good. The only way I might be able to get it working is to track down a Fast/Wide PCI SCSI Card. I might do that, but in the future. Gonna throw a 120GB Maxtor IDE/ATA-133 drive on the IDE bus for now.
I played some Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness last night. It felt there was a bit of a lag for some reason. It might be the SCSI drive. I tried a block verify and OS 9 said the drive had no bad blocks, but there was some delay on the disk reads.
I will play with it a bit more tonight, but for now that's all I have to report.
I do want to say, don't play with jumpers around cats. Both of mine kept grabbing my bag of jumpers and then taking off with it, leaving me to track down the cats to get it back.
Another issue I encountered was my system is a bit finicky when it comes to booting. It's very possible the PRAM battery could be the cause. If I power it up, sometimes I have to power it off and then again to get a boot chime and video. After that, it's pretty stable.
I also did have one issue with the 4GB HDD locking up, but I believe that was because of a bad SCSI cable. When I replaced the cable it seemed to work fine after that.
The CPU they sent me was NOT 366Mhz, it was 266!! I have filed a complaint on ebay. The person listed it at 366Mhz and the CPU clearly shows it as 266Mhz. What's worse is that the CPU will not even overclock to 300Mhz. So I am stuck at 266Mhz. On top of that, I didn't realize when I bought it that the shipped was marked up (I was tired when I bought it) meaning the CPU with shipping cost me $25!!! I am going to want at LEAST half my money back. I could've bought a 266Mhz for $5 on ebay with shipping at that time. So it ticks me off
I think one of the RAM sticks that came in is dead. The system will not boot with it installed. I will try to troubleshoot more tonight. It's possible the slot is bad, or I didn't get it all the way in. I will report back later
the 36GB 15k RPM Ultra320 SCSI drive will not work on the 50-pin. I don't think the drive can speak in narrow SCSI mode. I found a 4GB SCSI drive that works fine (Ultra160) but the 36GB will not report. I have no way to put jumpers on the drive either to try to force it. I have done all the usual SCSI voodoo/etc... and it still can't be found. I know the drive works. I was using it on a 68-pin LSI MegaRAID card in a PC. The drive is good. The only way I might be able to get it working is to track down a Fast/Wide PCI SCSI Card. I might do that, but in the future. Gonna throw a 120GB Maxtor IDE/ATA-133 drive on the IDE bus for now.
I played some Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness last night. It felt there was a bit of a lag for some reason. It might be the SCSI drive. I tried a block verify and OS 9 said the drive had no bad blocks, but there was some delay on the disk reads.
I will play with it a bit more tonight, but for now that's all I have to report.
I do want to say, don't play with jumpers around cats. Both of mine kept grabbing my bag of jumpers and then taking off with it, leaving me to track down the cats to get it back.
Another issue I encountered was my system is a bit finicky when it comes to booting. It's very possible the PRAM battery could be the cause. If I power it up, sometimes I have to power it off and then again to get a boot chime and video. After that, it's pretty stable.
I also did have one issue with the 4GB HDD locking up, but I believe that was because of a bad SCSI cable. When I replaced the cable it seemed to work fine after that.