Oh, yee of little faith. On the same or similar
do-it-yourself sites, I found (after many hours) that
Motorola CPUs will work on Rev.1 Gossamer G3s. When I
ordered a 333 CPU, OWC took some time but got it and
now it runs OS X at 400 MHz. Stay away from IBM.
Cheers
George
--- Alexander MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Riffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I spent quite a while searching through
> XLR8yourmac
> > files last night ('til
> > 0300) and didn't find but one person who had left
> a
> > review of a G3 processor
> > upgrade who said the ROM dimm on the rev A (or 1)
> > Beige was a problem for
> > him. An excerpt from him and part of the
> columnist's
> > reply follows. So it
> > appears that in maybe 90% of the cases the ROM
> dimm
> > on rev 1's is not a
> > problem in processor upgrades, but the problem has
> > occurred on occasion.
> > Guess I will go ahead and get one and try it.
> > NickUtah
>
> Good luck. I had a great deal of difficulty
> installing
> the IBM Copper 466mhz ZIF that I bought from OWC
> about
> two years ago. I couldn't get the machine to boot no
> matter what jumper settings were used. When I got a
> hold of OWC's support, they sent me a Rev B ROM SIMM
> (free!) and it has worked fine (and fast) ever
> since.
>
> They don't have these anymore. I wonder what they do
> now with Rev 1 Beige G3s?
>
> Alex
>
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