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I'd like to mod my CC for 640x480 but I'll pass on this particular mod...

Well this is troubling, I installed Mac OS 9.1 on the SCSI drive, booted the computer today and the drive was no longer mounted. Looks like I'm switching to IDE sooner than I thought, because dismounting itself doesn't seem like healthy behavior for a SCSI drive.

How do you tell the ROM revision anyway? I have two -B boards with single-sided ROM SIMMs.

There's a Compaq Portable 286 under the table on the right too. ;)

Okay, back with pics. SCSI drive is a 4.5GB unit and working, it just wasn't initialized. This thing has a perfectly acceptable 384MB of RAM installed but what's really interesting is that the CPU shows up under System Profiler as 466MHz. 450MHz B&W CPU, perhaps?

I guess the previous owner routed a SCSI cable to the Zip bay then as that's where the SCSI drive sits. It's either wiped or dead as there's no OS on it. Will have to throw in a boot CD tomorrow when I'm feeling more energetic to find out which one is true.

The system came in today. It's definitely an ATI video card, but rather perplexingly, the motherboard also has a 4MB SGRAM upgrade. Dual monitors perhaps? Also, the Zip drive (a SCSI one!) is gone, replaced with a Seagate SCSI hard drive. It's dated "0018", I didn't know they even still made...

I'm not sure how much is in it (I only recently got it and haven't taken a look). I'll let you know.

Not mine, mine is a 440FX chipset board. EDO only, no SDRAM.

Is 60ns EDO also good for a Pentium II? 128MB in a PII would be nice.

Well yeah, but those SGRAM modules probably aren't that easy to find. And I'm happy to have VGA without using an adapter.

8MB of VRAM isn't too bad at all. The onboard graphics only have 2MB after all.

Me too, that would be pretty killer! Though if it's something really fast I probably would put it in my 350MHz B&W G3 instead, since I have a 300MHz beige CPU.

Yeah, I got it because my current beige G3 works but is in extremely rough shape due to being a battery bomb victim (rip original motherboard) and is otherwise just...yellowed and gross. So I plan to swap over the good stuff I have (Wings card, 40GB hard drive) to have a really nice beige G3.

I ended up winning the auction so I suppose I'll let you know what it is when the system gets here.

Dang, wish I could find good stuff in the trash. All I got was a Socket 939 Gateway with bad caps and a dead PSU.

Somehow I don't personally have any SiS boards, everything is either Intel, VIA, or AMD. I don't have any nForce boards either.

Yeah, my Athlon is a KT133 chipset that only supports a 200MHz FSB, meaning that I have to buy chips that end with a B (the ones that end with a C are 266MHz). Maxed out with a 1400MHz chip and 1.5GB of RAM it could run XP but I'd rather just use it as a 98 machine.

I wish I had an Athlon XP, I can't find one anywhere. I have a regular Athlon but that only supports PC133 memory so it's for 98 gaming.

Post pics of the Compaq if you can.