Recent content by macuserman

Mine died awhile back too, still comes on but no video I think the GPU is dead. :( I didn't want to gamble on another one, or pay the exorbitant price for a used working GPU, so I picked up a 2018 mini for cheap instead. I now have a nice desk ornament.

I believe it will only work in a beige G3 not a B&W but worth trying. I’d try it in a beige first just to see if it works correctly putting it in a B&W may damage it….

Dunno how I missed it but RH bumped their hardware once again. https://shop.rabbitholecomputing.com/products/zuluscsi-blaster?variant=51474823840060 Not sure when this happened but the new blaster looks great, USBC connector, optional CD audio dac, now based on the RP2350B and up to 18MB/s. I...

Ah! Nice work I had a hunch your board was knackered. Now to engineer a board splint to keep it straight. :p

Maybe the card is defective, but I have a hard time believing its the driver, I've sold and owned numerous sonnet cards and I always use the latest driver no matter the system. Never had an issue, Sonnet is really good about backward compatibility with their drivers. Some of the other brands not...

Driver should work, scrub those contacts with an eraser, and then spray with contact cleaner and try again. Also power off the computer and give the PDS slot a good soak with contact cleaner and let it evaporate and try again. I'd bet money you bring it back to life, I can see the dirty contacts...

For sure, also take everything I say with a large dose of salt given I bought a 2013 mac pro myself this year. :LOL:

Very true, you can pick one up for $350 on eBay if you shop. Although the M1 mini does have some drawbacks that the M4 does not have which makes it worth it for me to skip it. When they get down to $100-150 range I think they will be killer machines to pick up to just use for whatever.

I hear what your saying, but at the same time we are talking about a difference of $225, and that is with me price shopping aggressively for mine with D700s making offers on eBay over and over etc. Used M4 minis are already hitting eBay... I feel like at that price difference I don't care who...

I think that was true, but that is rapidly changing as they go forward. M4 is really really good. I like the trashcan it's iconic even if it's a "meme", but it may end up as a display piece at some point next year rather than being used much.

I"m glad you had a look and walked that back, lol. I was about to say the base model mac mini at $600 is being hailed across the industry as best bang for buck, even against PCs. We'll just pretend the ssd, and memory upgrades if you want more than that aren't wildly over priced. But the base...

I bought one of these in February as well, and have been using it as an upgrade to my 2014 mac mini. In hindsight the new mac mini would probably have been a much better choice, but here we are. It is an interesting piece to own, but probably not a wise financial decision. lol

I see so your saying that the 4400 was likely designed to work without an extension and so isn’t happy in my later machines where one is required.

The 300 is bettter than the 266 but not an especially fast one the really good ones are 400 or even 500mhz although they are quite uncommon.

Not quite sure I"m tracking on that front, as all the L2 upgrades to my knowledge require an extension to work, I have interware L2 cards that are designed specifically for the 6500 and they work without issue using the extension, however my card that is designated as being for the 4400 does not...