Issue with PM 7500 and new memory
I've posed this before, but I have some updates. I installed some EDO memory on my PM7500. It has a 604e @ 200Mhz w/ 256k cache. WHen I installed the new memory, which had been advertised as 128MB chips, it showed up as 64MB. Mac OS 9 boots up with no issues at all and sees all the memory I have installed. However, when I reboot using BootX, None of my non-apple PCI cards will work Properly. I am using an Adaptec 2940U2W card, an Opti USB v1.1 card, and a Creative PCI 512. The SCSI card reports errors on the scanning of the hard drives and will not see either it or the CD-ROM. The Opti card, which I know works, will no longer initialize the USB mouse. No way to really check the sound card. Now, when I installed 2 of the original 16MB DIMMS in the fist bank, the system would see SCSI card and I could boot into Linux, but my passwork was no good. This is very weird. It has been suggested that there is a memory problem, but I have never seen a memory problem that would only keep the PCI card from working. I even installed an ATI Rage II PCI card with the apple rom, and it worked fine in both OS 9 as well as when I rebooted with BootX. My next step is to get an Apple Rom version of my SCSI card here in the next couple of days to see if that works. I also have a second 7500 that I will try swapping everything over to and see what happens. If anyone has any other suggestions, it would be appriciated. Thanx. __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/
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