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I recently posted to the trading post and would like to update the original post to indicate items spoken for. I looked and I looked and could not find some sort of edit indicator. How may I edit my post? Thank you.

Oh Cripes, now things are not working and I now have doubts that they temporarily were. I have been working with two q800's half stripped side by side. I now believe that I accidentally did the fresh install on the q800 with the full 040 fpu in it -- which then proceeded to work as it had...

Yay! The clean install cleared up the problem. so now the q800 runs with an lc040 under 7.1.1 properly. So Thanks to everyone who suggested the correct solution.

thanks for the replies. it gives me some hope. that the downgrade can be done. os 7.1.1 For the record, the software installed ran the lc040 machine okay with the lc040 chip in it. The software installed ran the 040 machine (q800) okay with the 040 chip in it. The software installed is not...

Finally got around to pulling the full 040 CPU out of the quadra 800 to swap with an LC 630. I want the lc630 to have increased performance of the full 040. But I do not want to trash the Q800. When I put the lc040 chip into the quadra 800, she booted fine. However, the date and time control...

Finally got around to pulling the CPU out of the quadra 800 to swap with an LC 630. I used a butter knife to pry the cpu out of both units. Thanks to everyone for suggestions!

Thanks for all the replies, so far. with regards to how to pull the CPU, does anyone have any more experiences to share on what tools you used and how you did it? TIA

I wanted to put a full 040 cpu from a quadra 800 into an LC630. has anyone done that? did it work? what is the your favorite tool / method to use to pull the CPU? TIA