I have an FX board that I slapped into a II case, 16 megs of RAM, 300 meg
SCSI drive and it runs fine, your board may be hosed...I don't have the
funky square power cable though, I use an external PC power supply that I
cannibalized from an XT and run the connectors through the topless FX
case.....FX's do use funky terminators though...Apple made the shell for
the terminator black instead of beige though....
If you manage to get it up and running and get a NetBSD kernel to run on
it, let me know, I've wanted to run NetBSD on the thing from the begining,
I run NetBSD on a lil II CI now....
		kevin
> From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
> To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: IIfx question
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 1997 8:14 PM
> 
> Well, thanks to a fine Irish gent, I have a IIfx board to play with.
> When I try to put it in my II case and power it up, I get the three
> chords of death before I get a picture on the screen.  Since I've never
> used a IIfx before, I thought I'd ask for thoughts from you folks who
> might have some idea.
> 
> Basically, what I have is the motherboard with RAM on it.  I dropped it
> into the II's case and put my 80MB SCSI on the internal bus (I had to
> snitch a power adapter cable from a spare quadra SCSI bracket kit to fit
> the power on the motherboard).  I put a macintosh display card in it (not
> a TFB, but something like it).
> 
> When I power it up, it seems to do something for a bit and then does the
> three ascending chord thing, about when I'd expect to see the screen
> clear.  I don't have a terminator on the external SCSI, but I also don't
> have any devices on it--I know that the IIfx terminator needs are
> special, but I don't remember the details...
> 
> Hmmm...  I'll try a different display card, too.
> 
> Is it possible that there's some difference because the mb is from
> Europe?  I figured that the power supply would take care of the voltage/
> frequency differences and that the motherboard would be the same on
> both sides of the pond.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> -allen
> 
> PS. The new quadra scsi driver seems to dig a ZIP drive, too.  I was
>     able to newfs a 96MB filesystem on it.
> 
> -- 
>               Allen Briggs - end killing - briggs@macbsd.com