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Ignoring Cory, my gaming OS 9 Mac is actually a Power Mac 7300. It has a 800MHz Sonnet G4, a Rage Orion and a GB of RAM, plus two 7200rpm SCSI drives and a 24x CD-ROM. This plays great old games like Deus Ex, System Shock, Bugdom, DOOM, Unreal/Unreal Tournament, Voyager Elite Force, Dark Forces...

Thank you! :) But I think the biggest thing is that Mozilla recognizes their performance chugs on low-spec devices. Now that they're focusing heavily on mobile, these efficiency improvements are getting into the core browser as well. 19 is already a lot faster than 17, and we're busily...

I wouldn't think so, but I've only ever used the 8*24*GC with 7.1.

It'll work, allegedly, but the caches have to be off. Ouch.

... and it looks like most of the Minix links are dead on that page, so here are others: http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/Macintosh/ I can't find the '040 patch, though. Minix has real problems running without 24-bit addressing. You can create a dummy app to force it into high memory...

You might also look around for MacMINT (yes, the same MiNT that Atari STs can run). It runs a stub called JET ("Just Enough TOS"), which then boots MiNT. Note that it will not work on OS 8 (7.6.1 or earlier only).

For the 7100, the only options are what few distros of LinuxPPC with NuBus support are out there, or MkLinux. I've long toyed with putting MkLinux on my 7100.

"Do you want this body?" "Is that a trick question?"

They come in about a million different variants. The DIP switches are not necessarily standard between them, so if you lost the manual, you'll be guessing. Post a picture and see if someone has a similar one.

Upgrade cards as a rule generally don't need the extension to boot (otherwise you could never boot with extensions off). They need it to enable the caches, so they won't run anywhere near what they should, but they don't need it to merely start the computer. That said, some of them may require...

And watch out for S-video switchboxes as ADB switchboxes. Usually they have a common ground pin, which causes all kinds of havoc on the bus.

Whoa! Good thing nothing else caught.

Why not just stick a G3 card in it? The 601 isn't really a great chip for overclocking.

Yep, plus full RAM and a 24x CD-ROM. I'm going to have to bench the A/V card versus the 24XK I have to see what I like better for display, though.

Yosemites can be good systems. Good thing it sounds like you have the revision with the IDE bugs worked out.

Nice card. I'd still want an A/V card for my SR-7100 though (which is why it has one).

At this point I would try connecting an external SCSI CD-ROM. The fact it worked before makes me think it's probably not the mainboard.

I really wish I liked SheepShaver more, but I get random hangs or crashes even just trying to install an operating system.

Faulty RAM would not cause this. You would get the breaking glass sound if it detected it in POST, or random behaviour in the OS if it didn't, but it would at least get some distance into booting. The machine will not start at all without a CPU card, because the CPU has to execute instructions...

For 10.4, it should "just work." For OS 9, Apple had them for download somewhere. One of the mirrors might have it. I only have the ATI drivers, since I only use ATI cards in OS 9.