Hello everyone. My name is Jason and I live near Springfield, Illinois. I have been a PC user for almost all of my life and just recently began to make the transition to Macs when I received a PowerMac 8500 and a Performa 6400/180 from my brother. I decided to make these machines my current projects and ran into some problems that my limited Mac knowledge can't answer. The people on Macswap and LEM Swap have been wonderful about getting me the parts I need, but aren't really interested in answering questions.
I was referred to this group by a member of the AllMacs group. These two machines are going to be used for some OS 9 games that I have as well as some OS 9 applications that my brother is sending me this week. My eventual goal is to get a B&W G3 to run OS X Panther on for those applications and games that require it. But for now, I am working on getting these two legacy Macs in operating condition. Here is the posting that I listed in the other forums that 1 person responded to: Hello all. Hopefully the great people here can help me.
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I am still fairly new to Macs, so in my pursuit of making the Performa 6400/180 that I got from my brother a useful machine, I sent out a request for extra parts and this is what I received: 1) Video-In Card (Red, White, Yellow and S-Video connectors) > Question: Do I need to load drivers for this? 2) 3 Ethernet Cards: 1 Teleport Platinum V (comm slot), 1 Apple Ethernet CS II Twisted-Pair Card (comm slot) and 1 Asante 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card > Question 1: Which one is the best to use? > Question 2: Am I going to need drivers for the best one? 3) Twin Turbo 128M8 Video Card w/Mac + VGA connectors > Question 1: Do I need drivers for this?
> Question 2: How do I switch from onboard to this card? (BIOS???) > Question 3: Which PCI slot does this go in (R or L)? (It's HUGE) 4) I am almost at a loss to describe this item.
It is a VERY small card with a copper connector (has a red ring inside like a video connector) and what looks like an ADB port on it. It is connected via a SMALL ribbon cable to an itty-bitty little card with two VERY SMALL PCI-style connectors on it. This chip on the main card says 'Focus enhancements Scan.204' and has a small metal box that says 'BIC-105 27.000MHz'. > Question 1: Does anyone have a clue what this is? > Question 2: Where does this go? > Question 3: Do I need drivers for it? > Question 4: What do I do with it?
5) Western Digital 20GB 5400rpm Hard Drive that has OS 9.2 on it which evidently is not supported on the 6400 without the use of OS 9 Helper. > Question 1: When I start the machine up and insert the CD, the 6400 is going to try to boot into OS 9.2 (which is not supported in its current configuration). Is this going to damage the machine by trying to boot into an unsupported OS? How do I reboot so that I can hold the 'C' key down to boot from CD after inserting the OS CD? (I don't really want to hard boot it with the power button or, God forbid, have to pull the plug.) > Question 2: Is heat going to be an issue since it is faster than the 4500rpm drive it replaced? 6) I also got 2x64MB memory modules (which are installed) to max the memory out. No questions here.This was an easy install.
7) The one thing I was not able to get was an L2 Cache chip. As far as my understanding goes, there were two sizes (256K and 512K) > Question: Is this correct? I'd like to get one of these but have heard the 512K ones are hard to come by and usually overpriced when found, so I guess I'll be looking for a 256K chip. The intended use for this machine is internet and older Mac games. > Question: Which internet browser should I use with this (I hate IE)? Thank you for all of your help.
I have CD's to install OS 9.2.2 on this machine (if I can get that to work using OS 9 Helper) which should make this a very usable machine. I appreciate any insight anyone can give me on these questions (one or all). > > Thank you, > Jason I look forward to hearing the responses I get from these forums. After I get the 6400/180 Project up and running, I'll start working on the 8500, but a lot of the questions here apply to that machine as well, so that list of questions should be shorter. Thanks in advance for the help.
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