On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
> > Hi. > > A mate of mine has a Pismo with G4 upgrade that isnt picking up > internal hard drives. Any hard drives? The MB cable connector may be loose. > Well he has ordered some parts and hopefully that will sort, but I > have a few questions. > > 1. How do you identify which G4 upgrade he has. I asked him to check > for brand names (Power Logix, Newer Tech, Daystar, XLR8) but he can > see nothing but 7410 and Freescale. > > 2. Can we just go ahead and install Tiger? Is there anything I need > to install or look for prior to running the Tiger installer? No it should just work. The only problem is the onboard cache may not be working, and that'll make the system a fair bit slower than it should be. I don't think all of those companies made G4 upgrades for the Pismo, and most of their cache enabling software was interchangeable. I used to have one of those G4 upgrades, I've got the software laying about somewhere at home, I think. I'll look. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
