So I tend to have a lot of broken PPC macs between my G5 Quad, 466MHz DA, and my FW800 MDD.
This MDD I bought off my coworker for $25, originally a FW800 single 1GHz machine, he purchased a dual 1GHz processor card and installed it, however the machine only saw it as a dual 800MHz G4 due to the 133MHz vs 167MHz bus the dual processors required. Machine worked great but I wanted faster speeds so I removed the resistor to allow it to run at 167MHz. Ran great for a while then it started to lock up and freeze, and a few minutes before that happens the ethernet would stop working and so would the extra PCI ethernet card I installed. Tried messing with the usual PRAM, SMC, swapping ram, pulling PCI cards, etc to no avail.
So I think the board is toast because I removed that resistor, but I am considering ordering one from eBay that came from a 1.25GHz dual machine already with the 167 FSB. Board would cost $38.44 and I would receive 2GB ram with the board, I think I may have to do just that.
I guess you can say I am returning from my break to the PowerPC game
[doublepost=1465241703][/doublepost]The guy has two boards for sale both from a DP 1.25GHz FW800. Only difference is one has a modem and the other has a bluetooth card. I already have a modem, so I think I'll go with the bluetooth card listing.
Ordered! Time to make the MDD live again.
This MDD I bought off my coworker for $25, originally a FW800 single 1GHz machine, he purchased a dual 1GHz processor card and installed it, however the machine only saw it as a dual 800MHz G4 due to the 133MHz vs 167MHz bus the dual processors required. Machine worked great but I wanted faster speeds so I removed the resistor to allow it to run at 167MHz. Ran great for a while then it started to lock up and freeze, and a few minutes before that happens the ethernet would stop working and so would the extra PCI ethernet card I installed. Tried messing with the usual PRAM, SMC, swapping ram, pulling PCI cards, etc to no avail.
So I think the board is toast because I removed that resistor, but I am considering ordering one from eBay that came from a 1.25GHz dual machine already with the 167 FSB. Board would cost $38.44 and I would receive 2GB ram with the board, I think I may have to do just that.
I guess you can say I am returning from my break to the PowerPC game
[doublepost=1465241703][/doublepost]The guy has two boards for sale both from a DP 1.25GHz FW800. Only difference is one has a modem and the other has a bluetooth card. I already have a modem, so I think I'll go with the bluetooth card listing.
Ordered! Time to make the MDD live again.
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