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In article <6rshi5$prm$1@supernews.com>, <saicchic@interaccess.com> wrote:

> Can I remove a 1 gig hard drive and set of SIMM chips from a Mac IIcx and
> swap them for use into a Mac IIci without a hitch? Are these two old models
> technically compatible?
> 
> Also, the Mac IIcx is suffering from a 1-20 minute delay to power up...but
> as time goes on....it is refusing to even powering up at all. Does this mean
> the power supply is running dry? What might cause? Any cheap solutions
> (besides what is mentioned in above paragraph)?
> 
> Thanks experts!   Please reply directly to saicchic@interaccess.com

The IIci wants faster memory chips than the IIcx, but I have rarely had a
problem switching memory between the two models.  Almost all the hardware
is the same (except the IIci has internal video) but some of it is faster
on the IIci.

I have seen two IIcx and heard of one IIfx taking L-O-N-G-E-R to start up,
by which I mean that the time between pressing the power key (either the
one on the keyboard *or* the one on the back of the case) to the time of
hearing the startup chime goes from several minutes to eventually 45
minutes.  After the chime, everything is normal speed, and no hardware
errors detected by any diagnostic I could get run on it.  I tried
replacing the power supply.  I tried replacing the motherboard battery (I
got the battery from Jameco, http://www.jameco.com/).  I tried the weird
suggestion of having everything unplugged from the wall until I wanted to
turn it on (no soft power, no trickle from power supply to keyboard to
respond to keyboard start), but that if anything made it take longer.  I
had a sense that temperature was a contributing factor to startup time but
not the only or even major one.  I exchanged monitor, keyboard, and mouse
for known good and newer peripherals.  *None* of those fixed either IIcx. 
So, at the time, I got a IIci instead.  If anyone has an answer to the
delay between asking a IIcx to start and the startup chime, I'm _CURIOUS_!

- Joni
hope at unc dot edu