IIfx
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I regret ever buying a Newer Tech MacClip Jr. Ever since I had a failed attempt at using one the whole system hasn't been right since. To put things short, the MacClip fell off of the clock oscillator while the system was on. It just popped off on its own! This of course caused havoc as the system clock suddenly dropped. The end result of this incident was a fried SCSI controller on the original logic board. So I swapped over all of my components to my spare logic board, minus the MacClip.The problems continue there.
At first everything seemed to be OK, but then my hard disk died. Ok, no problem, just swap in another one. The system wouldn't detect it, but my G4 can see the drive. After doing some dancing around, I finally got a CD of System 7.6 to see the drive. Formatting began, and took eons. The system eventually just locked up. So I took the drive out and put it back in the G4. It initializes there no problem. I bring it back to the Quadra and try booting from HDT PE. That seemed to work, until it crashed with a bus error bomb. I removed all of the RAM and tried again. Booting was successful but my version of HDT is on OS 8 and needs more than 8mb of RAM to run.
Ever since that successful boot the Quadra has not been able to see anything on the SCSI bus at all. The built in CD drive is seemingly toast.
Is it possible that I have fried two logic boards in a row? Perhaps it's time to look into replacements for this machine. It's a shame as it was my primary workhorse for 68k stuff. Now it's a paperweight.
Any ideas? I have already done the obvious. Reset the PRAM, restated all connections, etc. Caps are solid state so that shouldn't be an issue.
At first everything seemed to be OK, but then my hard disk died. Ok, no problem, just swap in another one. The system wouldn't detect it, but my G4 can see the drive. After doing some dancing around, I finally got a CD of System 7.6 to see the drive. Formatting began, and took eons. The system eventually just locked up. So I took the drive out and put it back in the G4. It initializes there no problem. I bring it back to the Quadra and try booting from HDT PE. That seemed to work, until it crashed with a bus error bomb. I removed all of the RAM and tried again. Booting was successful but my version of HDT is on OS 8 and needs more than 8mb of RAM to run.
Ever since that successful boot the Quadra has not been able to see anything on the SCSI bus at all. The built in CD drive is seemingly toast.
Is it possible that I have fried two logic boards in a row? Perhaps it's time to look into replacements for this machine. It's a shame as it was my primary workhorse for 68k stuff. Now it's a paperweight.
Any ideas? I have already done the obvious. Reset the PRAM, restated all connections, etc. Caps are solid state so that shouldn't be an issue.