[Tikas]

Does anyone knows the way how and what to change on this board taken out from PM 9600/300 to use it in other computers, like PM 7600?

Most likely, you can just plug it into the cpu slot on the 7600.

When I upgraded a few 7300's here, I plugged the 604e card into an old 7500 we use here as a secondary file server, it works great.

[Tikas]

No, the processor card structure is different. It has cache on processor card. Processor doesn't work if i put it directly into 7500 or 7600.

Originally posted by Tikas:
No, the processor card structure is different. It has cache on processor card. Processor doesn't work if i put it directly into 7500 or 7600.

Are you resetting the system before booting up the 7500/7600? There is a little button, I forget what it is called, but without pushing that before reboot, and after installing the card, you may see this problem. The slot is identical on on both those motherboards. The only limitation is that the 7500/7600 motherboard can only accommodate a dual processor card, whereas the 9500/9600 can go up to a quad processor card.
Also check out your RAM. I have heard of problems with the higher clock speed PPC processors having problems with slow RAM.

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[This message has been edited by Crazy K (edited 05-22-2000).]

Everything I have read indicates that the 604e 300 mHz processor pulled out of a 9600/300, can ONLY be used in other Macs that have the Kansas motherboard. Those are the 8600/250, the 8600/300, the 9600/300, and the 9600/350. I've got one of these myself that I keep just in case something happens to the G3 upgrade (extremely unlikely).

Think the motherboard reset button is called CUDA - don't know offhand what it stands for.

[Tikas]

I know that this processor card originally works only with PM 8600/9600. There is article in Apple TIL saying that. So if someone knows how physically modificate this card to make it working in 7300/7500/7600/8500/9500 i will be very happy for help.

Originally posted by Macfan2:
Everything I have read indicates that the 604e 300 mHz processor pulled out of a 9600/300, can ONLY be used in other Macs that have the Kansas motherboard. Those are the 8600/250, the 8600/300, the 9600/300, and the 9600/350. .

That's funny, usually the 7XXX (or desktop) series and the 8XXX (or small tower) series used the same motherboard and the 9XXX (large tower) series used one with six PCI slots. I guess they differed on this model series.

Originally posted by Tikas:
No, the processor card structure is different. It has cache on processor card. Processor doesn't work if i put it directly into 7500 or 7600.

Tikas:

Did you try removing the cache memory from the motherboard?

[Tikas]

8600/9600 has different motherboards than 8500/9500, different part numbers and structure. I'm asking anyone who knows these thing can we make physical changes on processor card or on MB of 7300-9500 to make this card working.