2009/7/6 glen <[email protected]>: >> >> >I've just bought a Sonnet Encore G4/500 upgrade for my elderly but >> >100% reliable Rev 1 B&W G3/400. (I want to try Mac OS X Server 10.4 on >> >it, and this requires a G4 CPU.) >> > >> >Snag is, when I fit the new chip, the Mac won't boot. I don't get a >> >Sad Mac or a crash tone or anything, just 5 short clear beeps from the >> >speaker. It sounds much more like a PC error beep than a Mac one! >> >> Did you update the firmware on your B&W? Be sure that you follow >> installation directions exactly or the Sonnet will not work. You >> should have gotten a CD from Sonnet when you bought your upgrade. >> The CD contains an installer that will upgrade the firmware on your >> Mac, and this must be done before you install the Sonnet Encore G4. >> > > Sonnet has downloads of the Firmware Updater Installer and the SonnetCache > Enabler at: > <http://www.sonnettech.com/support/downloads/processorupgradecards.html>
I tried both the MacOS 9 & OS X versions of this. The OS X one just caused a kernel panic, every single time. The MacOS 9 one ran but the instructions for getting into firmware programming mode were incorrect, & when I googled up the correct ones, it didn't run. > OWC has the Blue & White G4 Enabler at: > <http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/software.cfm> > > One or the other firmware patches should do the trick. The G4 Enabler needs > to be applied in OS 9, not sure about the Sonnet Updater. --glen This one, thankfully, did work fine and got my chip working, after 2-3hr of fiddling. So many thanks! Unfortunately my mere 500MHz G4 came up with overheating warnings almost immediately and I had to shut the Mac down, sharpish. I've cleaned & remounted the Apple heatsink with some fresh TIM and mounted an old Pentium II fan on top. Now it runs nice & cool, but the fan is too big & I can't close the Mac... [*Sigh*] However, it's working, and Mac OS X Server 10.4.7 is now happily installing on a mirror pair of 17GB UltraSCSI 3 disks. I also plan to hook up an external cabinet with 4 x 37GB UltraSCSI 3 disks for network storage. I'm hoping that OS X server will let me make a true RAID of these, as opposed to the stripe set which is all that ordinary OS X 10.4 would create. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml 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/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
