There's just no way. Who names a site canpharm.top? No reviews or information at all anywhere. The generic shopping images don't make me feel too comfortable either.
Although I did do a reverse image search, and it is a unique photo...
How are the caps? You should probably replace the few electrolytics on there, unless you got lucky and it doesn't have them. They usually only affect power, but you never know.
Also, could it be a RAM issue?
None of you ran into the issues I did with a 3? Something in one of the packages installed looks for a 4 CPU or something and won't run correctly and causes it to crash.
How tight is the belt? Guessing at this point in time, it would not be unusual for the belts to start stretching out and slipping. The carriage, at least as I remember it, has some resistance when you move it manually. I don't think there should be any belt slack.
If you want a very reliable Mac for 24hr usage, recap the logic board and PSU, or get it done by someone like Amiga of Rochester. Otherwise, for random whatever use, a logic board recap should be okay for now, unless the PSUs in these are known to go too?
Wasn't there some sort of issue installing OS 9 if you already had OS X installed, or was it the other way around? OS 9 required special drivers, but I can't remember if you can install it after installing OS X.
Is there a separate drive available to try a clean install?
Good to hear. It's actually got an 800mhz sonnet G4 upgrade, so it should be pretty fast. So it sounds like the speed of the IIfx is correct, going to guess 30 minutes or more per slide.
Reinstalled the software, no change. Reinstalled again, and now it's working. Not sure why it didn't work the last two times. Now when previewing it is stuck loading, so I will dig out the G3 tomorrow and see what happens. I would think the IIfx would be plenty fast for this. If the G3 works...
Got my Nikon CoolScan III cleaned up today, and turned it on without connecting it to anything. Light blinks slow, motors spin up and down, light goes solid. So I know the scanner works. First I connected it to the IIfx in this order, IIfx > CD ROM (1) > Black IIfx terminator > Scanner (2)...