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Does a PowerMac 9500 need a PRAM Battery to boot?
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techfury90
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Hit command-control-power after it chimes. This makes it skip the RAM test, which can take a few minutes on those machines with a large amount of RAM. You probably thought it was dead because of the RAM test's length.
equill
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The 9500 needs a video card, since there is no onboard or native video. Guess where the video settings are stored. Considering the cost of a PRAM battery vis-à-vis the cost of the other gear that you have in that 9500 ...
Have you been using the CUDA switch after each change of RAM, daughter card, PCI card and so on?
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Have you been using the CUDA switch after each change of RAM, daughter card, PCI card and so on?
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techfury90
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Good advice on the CUDA switch equill. My 9500 would have problems booting off its IDE card occasionally until you hit that button, particularly after swapping stuff around. Kind of funny thing: my IBM RS/6000 44P 170 often needs its Open Firmware reset when you change OSes from AIX to Linux, otherwise yaboot spews out all kinds of weird errors.
equill
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Coming, as my 9500/132 did, from a pre-press establishment, the only expansion in it was a Radius ThunderColor 16/3000 card. Bewdy? Unfortunately, no. The rest of that Mac's life was spent as a G3/400MHz machine, in which that once formidable card was no better than a doorstop. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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