killvore
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I bought a PPC 6100 with DOS card - just for the DOS card! - which means I have a 6100 I don't plan to use. I want to sell it, but I don't have an adapter for the HDI-45 connector, so I have no idea if it works properly.
Someone I'd bought some stuff from previously messaged me and said she was throwing out the rest of her listings since they'd been out for months and there were no takers. Her father had passed, and left behind a sizable collection, but there was no movement and she wanted to love on. One of the machines was a Powermac 8100 - I figured if I'm lucky there's an HPV in there that I could stick temporarily in the 6100 to at least verify that it works.
I asked for a picture of the back of the machine, since that wasn't in the listing. Curious!

I got the machine - it's in good condition, not too yellowed and just some clips on one side of the CD-ROM bezel are missing, should be fixable. (CD-ROM drive currently outside the case, on the left)

First order of business was getting the battery out - man, these cases are just The Worst! The layout AND the materials, just awful. It's my first time inside one and I hate it already. I didn't have time to get the motherboard out, but I did pull the battery. Original, but no leaks - phew!

Something funny in the expansion slots but I wasn't about to dismantle the whole thing - it was really late and getting at the motherboard without snapping off any spindlerplast was not something to be rushed. So I figured I would just turn it on and see.

First boot, it rebooted itself after the gray + mouse cursor showed up. Then it crashed with a Bus Error. So I disabled extensions, and I got to the desktop. The harddrive sounds pretty rough, so I'm hoping this instability is from corrupted harddrive data and not logic board damage. Profiler reported 144MB RAM, decent! However the desktop frozen when I tried digging around the system folder to see what extensions were installed. I rebooted, this time without disabling extensions. Woaaa what's this?

... And the profiler?

tl;dr: I got a surprise bonus Powermac 8100 with a double-suprise G3 upgrade!
Next steps:
1. Get that logic board out and see what's up
2. Swap out that harddrive for a BlueSCSI and see if that fixes the stability issues
3. Borrow the HPV card so I can test the 6100 and hopefully sell it
Someone I'd bought some stuff from previously messaged me and said she was throwing out the rest of her listings since they'd been out for months and there were no takers. Her father had passed, and left behind a sizable collection, but there was no movement and she wanted to love on. One of the machines was a Powermac 8100 - I figured if I'm lucky there's an HPV in there that I could stick temporarily in the 6100 to at least verify that it works.
I asked for a picture of the back of the machine, since that wasn't in the listing. Curious!

I got the machine - it's in good condition, not too yellowed and just some clips on one side of the CD-ROM bezel are missing, should be fixable. (CD-ROM drive currently outside the case, on the left)

First order of business was getting the battery out - man, these cases are just The Worst! The layout AND the materials, just awful. It's my first time inside one and I hate it already. I didn't have time to get the motherboard out, but I did pull the battery. Original, but no leaks - phew!

Something funny in the expansion slots but I wasn't about to dismantle the whole thing - it was really late and getting at the motherboard without snapping off any spindlerplast was not something to be rushed. So I figured I would just turn it on and see.

First boot, it rebooted itself after the gray + mouse cursor showed up. Then it crashed with a Bus Error. So I disabled extensions, and I got to the desktop. The harddrive sounds pretty rough, so I'm hoping this instability is from corrupted harddrive data and not logic board damage. Profiler reported 144MB RAM, decent! However the desktop frozen when I tried digging around the system folder to see what extensions were installed. I rebooted, this time without disabling extensions. Woaaa what's this?

... And the profiler?

tl;dr: I got a surprise bonus Powermac 8100 with a double-suprise G3 upgrade!
Next steps:
1. Get that logic board out and see what's up
2. Swap out that harddrive for a BlueSCSI and see if that fixes the stability issues
3. Borrow the HPV card so I can test the 6100 and hopefully sell it
