on 12/27/04 5:26 PM, Sean Kennedy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Robert, > > You have had problems with some upgrade cards? I have looked at the Sonnet > site. There are also several processors on eBay. What should I be looking > for in a G3 card? a G4 card?
The Power Logix 450 G4 daughter card gave me hell and wasted about 30 hours of my time ... until the heat sink and fan came loose and FRIED the chip. Sort of a Jury Rig set up. IT was cheap ... As my buddy say's, "Cheep, Cheep, that's bird talk." The bitter taste of defective products, linger long after the sweet smell of a low price. I have used several Sonnet cards and have had problems with only one. It come dead in the box. Made a call and got the replacement before I could get the defective one into the mail. From the .040 board on my Granddaugters Mac llvx, two PCP's w/400 G3 cards, two PTP's w 500 G3 cards ... nothing but great service out of Sonnet products. > Will it be necessary to buy a daughter card? or do I use the existing > daughter card and add a processor? It will replace your existing Daugter card with the heat sink. > > So, if I'm not going to go to OS X should I buy a G3 upgrade? Will a G4 be a > better upgrade if I'm staying with 8.6 or 9.1? It all depends on what you are using it for. The G4 450MHz is fast. Mine with the G4 card would actually scroll too fast . If a 500MHz G3 isn't fast enough, Get the G4 with as much horse power as your wallet will stand. > > I use a NAT router and have so far not needed a software firewall on any of > my systems. I had some bad experiences with Norton and McAfee background > tools and removed them from all my systems. Not sure how it goes on a mac. > The other programs are disk utilities? I have Norton Personal Firewall. Every 5 to ten minutes, I get a yellow box warning that someone is trying to break into my computer. At this very moment, there's one in the corner with the message: Norton Personal Firewall: acess DENIED At 12/29/04 00:42:59 an access attempt was denied to Windows file sharing, port 139, from IP address 69.226.16.85 Scares the h...hu... hu... heck out of me > > I have seen several SCSI drives on eBay. I just purchased a box lot of Mac > stuff that included some disks and some memory along with a buch of other > stuff for $10 +s/h. I'll wait until I see what's in it before I decide on > what drive to buy. Thanks for the lead at Surplus Computers. I also bought > two sticks of 128meg off eBay today. When that box lot shows up I'll figure > out what i can use. I will try to go all the way up to 1gig of RAM. But for > now I know I'll have a good 272megs to work with. Be carefull that all the dims are the same speed. Mixing and matching can cause irratic behavior and crashing. RHB > > I'll download that stuffit compression utility also. That should help me get > that ping utility installed. > > Thanks for the welcome, > Sean > ----- >> If you stay with the 204e processor it came with, use OS 8.5 or 8.6. If you >> get a G3 daughter card, go with OS 9.1. BTW, get a Sonnet G3 card for the > least headaches. It will cost you about $175.00. > >> If you elect to spend all that cash for a G4 card DO NOT get a Power Logix >> Card. I did ... what a waste of cash and time. Better yet, get you a Blue >> and white G4 on ebay for about $350.00. > >> If you stay with OS 9.1 or 8.5 or 8.6, I couldn't recommend the following >> too strongly: Conflict Catcher 8.0.8. - TechTool 3.0.3 or Disk Warrior > 2.2.1 > - Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Personal Firewall. >> Go to Surpus Comuputers >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> and buy a used SCSI drive Cheep > > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
