Juror22
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I have been tying to take better care of my II's this past few months and this weekend I caught up with on of my two IIci's, which originally came to me with a packed Toby card, as well as ethernet, cache and GPIB cards (but and no hard drive).
I had recapped this one in the not-too-distant past, and also placed a random HD in it (from a performa, which boots with the extensions off) and now also replaced the failing fan in the PSU with a Noctua (NF-R8 redux-1200 per excellent advice from someone else here on the forum - I'm curious how they handled the generous length of the cord on their installation...)
After getting the PSU back in, and installing 7.1, so that it boots without holding down the shift key, I next took out the old 1 MB sticks and put in eight new 16MB memory sticks in their place that I bought on Amazon and booted it up. Following the startup chime I waited, and waited, waited some more... then I thought about how everyone warns about how long it takes the older machines to check through that much RAM. (still waiting btw...)
So after what seemed like a couple of minutes, but might have been less, it did finally come up, and with so much memory. I know this is the wrong place to complain about this, but this could be too much memory, so based on some threads I have seen covering memory/video and such, I cut it back to just the expanded memory in bank B and I'm placing 1MB SIMMs back in bank A to drive the onboard video. Once I get the cache card recapped (still works, but cap goo was obvious when I took it out), I'll put that back in and raise the memory cache to about 768MB. That should give me the best onboard video performance, along with a fair startup time, providing me with a nice IIcx experience.
This really started out as one of those, 'What do you suggest I do, now that I have configured this wrong?" items, but now I've talked myself into taking this path and unless the video is really slow, and I'll put the card in something else.
I had recapped this one in the not-too-distant past, and also placed a random HD in it (from a performa, which boots with the extensions off) and now also replaced the failing fan in the PSU with a Noctua (NF-R8 redux-1200 per excellent advice from someone else here on the forum - I'm curious how they handled the generous length of the cord on their installation...)
After getting the PSU back in, and installing 7.1, so that it boots without holding down the shift key, I next took out the old 1 MB sticks and put in eight new 16MB memory sticks in their place that I bought on Amazon and booted it up. Following the startup chime I waited, and waited, waited some more... then I thought about how everyone warns about how long it takes the older machines to check through that much RAM. (still waiting btw...)
So after what seemed like a couple of minutes, but might have been less, it did finally come up, and with so much memory. I know this is the wrong place to complain about this, but this could be too much memory, so based on some threads I have seen covering memory/video and such, I cut it back to just the expanded memory in bank B and I'm placing 1MB SIMMs back in bank A to drive the onboard video. Once I get the cache card recapped (still works, but cap goo was obvious when I took it out), I'll put that back in and raise the memory cache to about 768MB. That should give me the best onboard video performance, along with a fair startup time, providing me with a nice IIcx experience.
This really started out as one of those, 'What do you suggest I do, now that I have configured this wrong?" items, but now I've talked myself into taking this path and unless the video is really slow, and I'll put the card in something else.