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Other => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gil on October 04, 2008, 01:49:39 PM

Title: Newest member of the family
Post by: Gil on October 04, 2008, 01:49:39 PM

Yeah..  :hmm: Picked this one up real cheap. Built from 1995-1997, it's more expandable than a Mac Pro ( :blink:), with 6 PCI slots. This thing is a beast. The processor is on a removable daughtercard. Really fast SCSI bus (No IDE/ATA) and an overall excellent motherboard architecture.

This is noted as being one of the WORST cases that Apple has ever made. I took it off last night to install my drive, and spent over 4 hours trying to get the SOB back on. Whatever.

This was also one of the only Macs to use a PowerPC 604e microprocessor.
It's a Power Macintosh 9500. :)

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It doesn't boot though. Have to figure that one out. :P

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: Mike M on October 04, 2008, 08:22:22 PM

Nice. My grandpop had a 9500, except his had a 200 MHz processor. He got rid of it about two years ago and now just has a Powerbook from 2004.

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: Gil on October 04, 2008, 09:13:10 PM

I got Mac OS 7.6 on it! Woot!

So here's my upgrade plans:

Processor -
• Sonnet Crescendo PCI 1GHz G4 upgrade
Memory -
• 1.5 GB RAM, Interleaved
Disk -
• 5-100 GB SATA Drive ¹
OR

• 4 GB CompactFlash, as an alternative to a Hard drive. Quieter, faster, etc.
Controller -
• Sonnet PCI SATA card (If ¹ is applied)
Peripheral -

• Sonnet Tempo USB2/FireWire PCI.
  
• Wacom digitizer tablet.
• MOTU MIDI Timpiece AV.

Software -

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• MOTU Digital Performer 5
• Adobe Suite CS4
• Microsoft Office 2008:Mac

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: Gil on October 11, 2008, 02:06:28 PM

I killed it. :faint:

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: lfmusiclover on October 11, 2008, 02:11:50 PM

How'd ya do that?  :blink:

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: Gil on October 11, 2008, 02:12:27 PM

Processor board, I think. :faint:

Everything I touch dies. :cry:

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: lfmusiclover on October 11, 2008, 02:23:25 PM

Quote from: Gil on October 11, 2008, 02:12:27 PM

Processor board, I think. :faint:

Everything I touch dies. :cry:

LOL, I know how that is.  :twothumbs:

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: Gil on October 11, 2008, 08:30:39 PM

Fixed it. :D :twothumbs:

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: lfmusiclover on October 12, 2008, 03:22:49 PM

Quote from: Gil on October 11, 2008, 08:30:39 PM

Fixed it. :D :twothumbs:

LOL, I DON'T know how that is. When I kill 'em, I kill 'em for good. There's no bringing 'em back.  :P

Title: Re: Newest member of the family
Post by: Gil on October 12, 2008, 03:26:26 PM

Quote from: lfmusiclover on October 12, 2008, 03:22:49 PM

Quote from: Gil on October 11, 2008, 08:30:39 PM

Fixed it. :D :twothumbs:

LOL, I DON'T know how that is. When I kill 'em, I kill 'em for good. There's no bringing 'em back.  :P

Turns out the processor board was not pushed into the socket all the way. :wall: :chair:

Also, resetting the CUDA switch worked too. :yes: