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Thanks, that works. Doesn't seem to be as much of a boost as I thought, but it's good to have the option.

Yeah, I've got Dashboard and Spotlight perma-killed, I never use them anyway :/ I know the RAM will help, I just wondered if there was a way to kill this while I was at it...

Having just come into possession of a PowerBook G3 Pismo (500MHz,) I've been getting things all up and running and tweaked to my preferences as much as is possible. But while OS9 flies, OSX (10.4.11) is still a bit sluggish. Part of that, I know, is the RAM (512MB being kind of the practical...

Hahaha, if you get a G3 working in an SE/30 I will have to send mine over for the same treatment :lol:

If you read the text, it's a temporary blackout to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills. It'll be back in a day or two.

Coming back to this, I'm just curious if anybody has any idea how much of a performance impact the presence of L3 cache has on a G4. I ask because I was reading about upgrade options for the MDD Macs, and it seems that of the three third-party accelerators listed there, only the slowest (dual...

Yikes. The thermal paste was so old and crappy it came off in chunks. Didn't even leave a smear behind. I replaced it, and now it idles at around 101F; even a short gaming session only pushed it to 111. Quite an improvement! I still think I'll give the single-CPU approach a try, but it's nice to...

Heh, yep...I was thinking to myself yesterday morning "oh, I won't bother dropping by the recycle center, probably nothing good there now that they're clearing so much stuff out, anyway I've got stuff that needs doing." Then I get this funny feeling like maybe I ought to just drop by and have a...

Hmm, well, I've got a 1.25GHz single CPU lined up in exchange for some other stuff, so I'll still have the 1.25GHz DP card if it does turn out to be too slow. But as I said, my concern is much more for thermal issues and OS9 performance than OSX performance, so I don't expect it'll be an issue...

Good point about the thermal paste, I'll freshen that up when I get a chance. Temperature Monitor shows the board temperature at 136F with nothing open but the Finder and Temperature Monitor; I'm no expert on this stuff, but that seems a little high to me. When I had it unpacking a large archive...

Okay, I've just acquired a 2002 MDD Power Mac (1.25GHz DP) and gotten it up and running. It's quite a nice machine, but I've noticed that it's running a bit hot, even though the fans are working fine. Since the CPU is swappable, and since it's primarily an OS9 box and thus the dual-processor...

Okay, so I have a nice little 533MHz Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) that I've just got up and running with OS9. It's working pretty nicely, except that thanks to the piddly little 16MB ATI Rage 128 it came with, graphics-intensive tasks are just not so great on it. I do have, as part of my...

Well, the 50-pin jumper block detailed in there does look like the SMP variant described there. It's currently configured as device 4 with auto-start and active termination enabled; any ideas on what it should be set to, either in the SE/30 or as an external device for the IIsi?

Well, it was advertised as a 1GB drive, but I'll take a picture this weekend. If it doesn't have a termination jumper, it's certainly labeled like it does...

Not 100% sure on that. When I install internally in the SE/30 with termination on and SCSI ID 0, it doesn't freeze, but HD SC Setup (patched version) fails to recognize it. When I install it in the external case and use it with the IIsi, it freezes the computer on boot unless I boot with it off...

Bummer. The only one I'm really confused by is "M," but the bigger question is what the Macs are looking for that the drive isn't giving them, which I don't understand at all.

Well, I'm afraid that datasheet has me completely lost. I know pretty much nothing about reading this stuff, but here's the various bar codes/ID strings on the drive: L1 B3B 192222 FRU PN 92F0428 EC895987 PN45G9490 E150455 LR34074 R9371775 SN 13 192222 S3 ESP2242411 FSP45G9883 EC 895964...

Well, I have obtained a new hard drive for use with the SE/30. Unfortunately, that means more contending with the vagaries of SCSI configuration. Here's how it's sitting at the moment. The drive I bought is an IBM 92F0428 1GB drive (looks from what I can find like this is just a re-branded...

Yeah, I suppose. Never re-capped anything before, but there's a first time for everything...

Ah, that'll be interesting to address. Wonder if I can get a replacement analog board for cheap...