How is Sonnet responding to these horror stories/ I have read
that they expect 10% to be bad, but the more I read the bigger the
10% looks to be maybe 50%/ Was this prevalent to the earlier models
of the upgrade card or even in the recent ones also. 3 months to get
your money back at $350.00 per pop is not what I would call quick
refund.
I am building this 1400 as a project and as a book that would
not be a huge loss if stolen or busted on a trip, but do not need a
book from hell journey-this is supposed to fun!! OS 9.1 sounds as if
it would be a slug on the 1400 because of the ram. I thought 8.6
I have already settled that a pismo is mine as soon as they
hit a $1,000,00-by xmas maybe, so if the upgrade card is REALLY not
going to work, and maybe some of you positives upgrades can ring in
here, maybe I will just keep the 166 with a beautiful brand new
active screen-good deal on e-bay. Scrap out the 117-with the passive
LCD, how could Apple ever sell that screen, I hate to scrap Macs-but
the 117 is so sl000ooow my 190cs blows its doors off. Well I am open
for more suggestions.
Geoff
> > 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
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