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How did it work out? Took me a solid 8 hours first time I did a 950 PSU, a little less 2nd time around.

Unfortunately, no...... I was never able to get my Bolle Carrera 040 card to work. Recently, I was able to test the Bolle Carrera directly, by plugging it into a IIci. Using the OG IIci driver, the machine still crashed at boot. Cannot remember if it was a freeze, or bus error, etc. WHatever it...

Bolle made a limited run of Carrera 040 clones a few years back. I was lucky enough to get one when they were released. Honestly however, 040's in SE/30's can be fickle. For me personally, the 50mhz 030 accelerator is the way to go.

Good call! Not all IIcx's had socketed CPU, and if my memory serves me correct, not all had a ROM slot either?

In order to use a Daystar accelerator in the IIcx you had to first install the Daystar CPU socket adapter. Interestingly, I have found that when these "IIcx Daystar Accelerators" do come up on eBay, they tend to sell for less than you would think. I was able to score both the adapter and the...

My Quadra 950 with 100mhz PPC card runs 8.6 like a champ. I needed to use the "Wish I were" extension to trick the 8.6 installer by setting it to PM 6100.

Hahaha....been there, done that.

I went through hell trying to get a 9200 LE to work with my vintage Mac's. Although it is a regular PCI card, if memory serves me correct, I believe they were used in G5 Xserve's and were never meant for use in G3/G4 systems. I wound up getting it working in a Blue and White G3 using the Rom...

I do not, I only have Rominator II's. What OS are you using? Perhaps you can use that key command in Memory control panel to overide the ram test skip? IIRC, That might only work in OS 8 and above Also, not sure if I mentioned it, but I had a IIcx last year with a bad SIMM slot which did not...

Thanks for circling back. This is really good info, I havent yet had to go this far down the rabbit hole with a IIcx/IIci, but I am sure one day I will. I am going to break out my IIcx's this week and mess around a bit.

OT 1.1.1 should work fine.

Yes, I did a fresh install of 7.1 Can you tell me how you formatted the SD card? My only thought is that perhaps it is RAM related, as Bolle mentioned that it can be sensitive when it comes to RAM, or it could be the MacCon card. I am basically out of ideas at this point. Thanks for following up.

About a year ago I had three CC's, stripped a few parts off one and sold the rest (including good AB) at VCF swap (stupid decision). A few months later after a lot of wasted hours and heartache, I sold another on ebay with a flaky AB that survived shipping. A few months lafter that, I managed to...

Good luck finding another good CC AB. Just recap the AB and take it from there. As someone who’s been through this twice, it’s your best bet.

It hangs at Carrera CDEV boot icon on my IIci! I guess its a hardware issue?