> I have a 1400 117 and a 166. I am going to put a G3 card in one of > them, saw a message that the 166 cpu was a little touchy when it came > to the Sonnett G3 card. Anyone had or heard of trouble with the 166 > and the G3? In brief, the upgrade turned into another PowerBook from hell experience........ Like Karl Gerlach, I have a PB 1400c 166 (MacOS 9.1, 64 Mb RAM, 6 GB IBM/IDE hard disk) and experienced major problems when I tried to upgrade it to a G3 using 'Sonnet Crescendo/PB G3, 333 MHz/512K'. After installing the upgrade, the PB was incredibly fast, when it worked (<5% of the time)! I experienced very strange behavior, such as frequent (all the time.....) finder freezes, unable to start-up or re-start the computer, etc. My machine became unusable. Sonnet's tech support was, to say the least, unhelpful. MacMall sent a replacement for me, which performed even worse than the original upgrade, if you can believe it. At this point, I gave up, and visited my local Apple Service store, who was likewise stumped. Well, two motherboards later, and simply removed the upgrade and replaced it with the original 166 processor, and all is back to normal. To Sonnet's and MacMall's credit, they did refund my purchase price for the Sonnet G3 (it just took some negotiating and 3 months wait to receive the refund). BTW, they finally acknowledge that some PB 1400's have problems with the upgrade. Having experienced these aggravating and time consuming problems, I strongly suggest that anyone considering an upgrade (at least of a PB 1400c/166), don't. Buy an iceBook or a PB G3. In hindsight, I now wished I had saved my money (not upgraded the hard disk, not upgraded to MacOS 9.1, nor purchased the Sonnet G3 upgrade). Bob -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
