Hi Mark Thanks for the reply/info. On 3/30/04 2:00 PM, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I dunno if everyone is aware here but the 1GHz (and maybe 900MHz??) >Sonnet G4 ZIFs actually clock the main bus back from 100MHz to 66MHz, >slowing it by 1/3rd, to get around a limitation of one of the >controller chips on the B&W/Yikes Logic Board. This significantly >impacts the effectiveness of the upgrade as speed gains on the CPU side >are countered by relatively poor RAM performance and a slow main bus.
Fortunately I didn't notice this drop. Just an amateur wanting to avoid another processor purchase in another few years...but I'm learning fast. On 3/30/04 2:00 PM, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 30, 2004, at 02:44 am, Tracy E Bunting wrote: >> I've done it again. I tried to update OS X (10.3.2 to >> 10.3.3) and I get the same gray apple screen. > That screen actually covers up a whole lot of very complicated and > occasionally useful text. You can boot into verbose mode by rebooting > while holding Cmd-V and you will instead get a black screen and lots of > white text. From there you might be able to 'give us a clue' by telling > us what sorta stage it gets to. So I will try that. What I did do is put the old processor back in and found it starts up fine to 10.3.3. So I checked and it can go to and OS 9 application just fine. I upgraded my retrospect express and am doing a full HD duplicate to my ext firewire HD...still in progress. (I had most of the good stuff backed up already). I'm hoping to put in a 60 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm ATA 133 drive and replace the CDR with the Lite on CDR/RW. And my plans are to get that all going before putting the sonnet Zif back in. > Another thing I suppose i should ask is - are you using a SCSI or IDE > boot drive? I'm not good with the terminology but think that you are asking about the current hard drive that I usually start up on? It's the original 6G drive (rev 1) described in my profiler report as ATA hard drive (Bus internal ATA). This B&W was purchased in Feb 99 and originally had (and is now using) a 300 mHz processor. Usually it's not listed on the B&W spec sheets... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58226 I don't know what other things it might have different that may be responsible for this craziness with the sonnet zif. I wonder if this will affect my other improvements (HD and CD rw replacements). I'm pretty sure I don't have to read up on slave/master configurations and plan to just replace the 6G. Tracy Bunting -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
