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Boctor
Disappointingly, it seems like flashing a Dell-branded OEM Rage 128 Ultra with the PowerMac Rage 128 Pro VBIOS does not automagically work. I didn't expect it to, but it was at least worth finding out.
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obsolete
obsolete
Oh my, this is an AGP card? Are you doing it just for the challenge? Otherwise, I would send you a Radeon 7000 for free. I have extras.
obsolete
obsolete
The first issue I see is that this PC card has two 32-bit SDRAM chips (64-bit bus) for 16MB, and the Mac cards have eight 16-bit SDRAM chips (128-bit bus) for 32MB. Some later ATI cards still work despite this (and just report the wrong memory size), but maybe this is a showstopping problem for the Rage 128. Not many people have experience flashing them because they're the lowest-end AGP Mac video card.
Boctor
Boctor
I was doing it purely for challenge, yeah. I could have sworn some of the Mac R128 cards had 16M and the same "R128P" GPU, but the bus would probably be a showstopper. I ended up putting back the stock GeForce2 MX and fixing my cheap SiL3112 card instead, which turned out better. (It was the typical out-of-spec 3.3V VRM issue. If I recall, you had also posted the name of the replacement part, so thanks!)
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I think I booted my ANS of an SSD.

Somehow I had the compatible hardware for this?! Where did the Murphy’s law go?
luRaichu
please please please please review my MicroMac Performer derivative design k thx bye
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ExplorerZ
you ever accidentally use your heat gun on a powerbooks screen? I just did
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luRaichu
luRaichu
at least it's free of tunnel vision now
finkmac
finkmac
i dont have a heat gun
ExplorerZ
ExplorerZ
I just finished recapping it, ill post a photo of the damage if there is any
Powerbase
After a million years after asking about people experience with lag and such with them, I've bought a Wombat ADB-to-USB adapter to use on my old Macs. The cats have destroyed my original ADB peripherals. Still love them though.
croissantking
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7.5.3 Clean universal install, this message pops up - weird.
croissantking
Available modes on a trayloader iMac when connected to an Apple Multiscan 15AV:

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Powerbase
Powerbase
I remember my old Multiple Scan 15 would happily switch to a resolution it darn tooting couldn't run, thus damaging itself.
Snial
Snial
512x384 is the biz! Give that iMac the Color Classic feels!
Durosity
Durosity
1600x1200 on a 15" screen woulda been crazy if it'd worked.. it'd be like a Retina display!
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RetroTechTom
Bought a Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card for my Macintosh Server G3

I will have to get some replacement case parts and bottom handles for it

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croissantking
My SE/30 sometimes makes this Sad Mac tone (in this case due to a poorly seated SIMM) – it's not often heard and the first half sounds a bit like a Game Boy. I wonder what it means and what fault causes it to play that specific tone.

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Bolle
Bolle
I've heard that before but couldn't find a failsafe way to reproduce it. But it does indeed seem to be RAM related...
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dougg3
I have a quick video that shows off the four different death chime variations on my IIci:


Sounds like yours is Error4Handler. Unfortunately the leaked SuperMario source code doesn't explain the difference between Error3Handler and Error4Handler, so we'd probably have to disassemble the ROM to figure it out. I agree though, it's almost certainly a RAM test failure.
jmacz
Teaser.... 🤫

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Things have changed. Looks like I'm doing shipping of some stuff afterall.

If, you have anything in mind, let me know.

Also, I'm going to post pics to this forum tomorrow night, Thursday and Friday. However, I'm not at all familiar with this forum. It's different from Reddit, so I'll have to figure out how to do that.
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