jimjamyahauk
Well-known member
Hi,
I thought we could use this new thread to cover info about the PowerExpress 9700 prototype powermac and efforts to get them booting.
Past information to getting mine to boot is on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9297 and over at applefritter: http://www.applefritter.com/node/23597
What would be interesting is trying to get the remaing ones out there booting. A place to start would be trying to get into OpenFirmware on ones that aren't booting at the moment. I found that this was only possible using a serial connection to a terminal programme on another mac, as the default output was via the serial/printer port, rather than onscreen.
A couple of other things are to take some pics of the motherboards and try and figure at which stages of the EVT process they were produced, and also dump some of the software in the other flash chips ( Trash80toHP_Mini - would you be willing to either do this, or send me your flash chips for this purpose?)
James.
I thought we could use this new thread to cover info about the PowerExpress 9700 prototype powermac and efforts to get them booting.
Past information to getting mine to boot is on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9297 and over at applefritter: http://www.applefritter.com/node/23597
What would be interesting is trying to get the remaing ones out there booting. A place to start would be trying to get into OpenFirmware on ones that aren't booting at the moment. I found that this was only possible using a serial connection to a terminal programme on another mac, as the default output was via the serial/printer port, rather than onscreen.
A couple of other things are to take some pics of the motherboards and try and figure at which stages of the EVT process they were produced, and also dump some of the software in the other flash chips ( Trash80toHP_Mini - would you be willing to either do this, or send me your flash chips for this purpose?)
James.