Bendix
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I hope this question has not been asked a million times before. I know that SE/30s with larger amounts of RAM have a long startup time because of the mem check. You stare on the happy Mac and wonder, if the machine just freezed. And I know, that custom ROMs like from bigmessowires can have this disabled. My question is: Is there any other way to skip the rom check?
I am asking, because I have two SE/30 with large memory, one booting slow, the other fast, both seem to have the original ROM. I have tested both with 68 to 80 MB. One has plastic ram socket clips, the other has steel clips, so they seem to be different revisions of the logic board. The one with the plastic clips is the slow booter, the other one with steel clips is always fast, no matter how much ram is installed.
I have included two pics of the logic boards, the 2nd being the fast booter (nevermind the installed ram sizes, that was before I got the 16 MB modules and btw they are now both recapped). So has the previous owner of the fast booter tampered with the ROM or are there other tools, that can tweak the startup time?
I am asking, because I have two SE/30 with large memory, one booting slow, the other fast, both seem to have the original ROM. I have tested both with 68 to 80 MB. One has plastic ram socket clips, the other has steel clips, so they seem to be different revisions of the logic board. The one with the plastic clips is the slow booter, the other one with steel clips is always fast, no matter how much ram is installed.
I have included two pics of the logic boards, the 2nd being the fast booter (nevermind the installed ram sizes, that was before I got the 16 MB modules and btw they are now both recapped). So has the previous owner of the fast booter tampered with the ROM or are there other tools, that can tweak the startup time?
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