Re: PowerMac G3- G4 Upgrade Aftermath.

2010-06-01 Thread Larry Stotler
Glad to hear you got it up and running. Upgrading a Mac can be an expensive proposition. It really depends on how far upgraded yours really is and how much it would cost to get the replacement parts. I'd love to upgrade my Digital Audio, but can't really justify it right now. I cna get a

Re: 933 mhz G4 Quicksilver Powermac OS Linux or OS X?

2010-06-01 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 30, 7:03 pm, Scotty daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a used G4 Quicksilver w/1.25 GB RAM that I love and well it came with 10.5 installed but I have to re-install an OS on it.  I don't have a copy of 10.5 , but I do have the Original OS 10.2 disk that came with the Quicksilver,

Re: PowerMac G3- G4 Upgrade Aftermath.

2010-06-01 Thread Larry Stotler
On Jun 1, 8:44 pm, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: There will be newer and newer computers made fter the GX processor era, so saying that the newer processors are million times better than the PowerPC Processors isn't fair. When it comes to info and web browsing, I will always

Re: G3 Blue and White

2010-05-29 Thread Larry Stotler
28, 11:31 pm, Jasiu johnschiavone...@gmail.com wrote: What patch is that? On May 28, 6:23 pm, Larry Stotler larrystot...@gmail.com wrote: On May 28, 4:55 pm, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote: The Sonnet G4 500 is one of the best available upgrades for a BW or Yikes. The OP needs to make

Re: G3 Blue and White

2010-05-29 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 29, 3:15 pm, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: i don't think so.  while Sonnet did make a G4/1gig processor upgrade (as well as G4/700 and G4/800), these were NOT ZIF processors.  rather hey were what are usually referred to PCI upgrades, ie, daughter cards for the 72xx-96xx Macs

Re: G3 Blue and White

2010-05-28 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 27, 6:34 pm, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: more info on it Sonnet - Encore/ZIF G4: Power Mac G3 G4 Processor Upgrade Card Yes, The Encore/ZIF is the correct upgrade. The G4 is slightly faster than the G3 on some things. However, 10.3 and up makes use of the G4's Altivec

Re: G3 Blue and White

2010-05-28 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 28, 4:55 pm, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote: The Sonnet G4 500 is one of the best available upgrades for a BW or Yikes. The OP needs to make sure he runs the 3rd party patch to allow the G4 to work in the G3 tho. Almost forgot that. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: G3 Blue and White

2010-05-27 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 27, 2:21 pm, Jasiu johnschiavone...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 350MHZ G3 BW.  I wanted to upgrade the processor, any idea of the fastest processor I can go with?  I just put an 80 GB hard drive in it, running 10.3.9.  Any other ideas for upgrading?  Thanks Sonnet made a 1Ghz G4 upgrade.

XLR8 Velocity MPe dual G4 500Mhz CPU upgrade

2010-05-25 Thread Larry Stotler
Found this on eBay recently: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=320531235320ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Kinda pricy, but an interesting upgrade I think I've seen before. Does anyone have any experience with this? Under OS @ or Linux? Was wondering how well the BW was able to run 2

Re: BW G3 - G4 Upgrade Revisited.

2010-05-25 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 23, 7:07 pm, Gus gusr...@comcast.net wrote: Well, after doing some considering... I think I will try to put the Yikes board in the BW.  I read around and ran across some poor soul that couldn't get his BW working after 2 Motherboard swaps and finally stuck a G3 in a Yikes board and put

Re: XLR8 Velocity MPe dual G4 500Mhz CPU upgrade

2010-05-25 Thread Larry Stotler
On May 25, 11:53 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Look more closely, this is NOT for a BW, but is a processor slot upgrade for the *Beige* G3's. Actually, it is a ZIF upgrade. I put Beige instead of BW though. Good catch. Well, here's the Standard LEM Car Analogy:

Re: Unstable upgraded BW G3...

2009-02-19 Thread Larry Stotler
On Feb 11, 7:20 pm, rtows...@aol.com wrote: And to my great relief, it's now running Tiger 10.4.11 flawlessly, albeit slower than it ran with the 450 CPU... I guess I naively thought that, since I was using a chip from the same (but speed-bumped) model, and it fit so nicely, that it

Re: Lombard DVD card in OSX??

2008-12-21 Thread Larry Stotler
On Dec 21, 12:14 am, jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I just bought a DVD card for my PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHZ. I can play DVDs great in OS9, but I would like to find a way to play them in OS10. Does anyone know of any programs that will do that? Thanks!-Jonas IIRC, I

Re: DA 533 reporting as 466?

2008-12-09 Thread Larry Stotler
On Dec 9, 11:19 am, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just put this in? No, I got it that way. I took the heatsink off and it says it is a 533, but when I run it it shows as a 466. Did you reboot the power manager?  (aka, press the CUDA button ONCE). Tried that with no luck. I don't know

DA 533 reporting as 466?

2008-12-08 Thread Larry Stotler
I have a Digital Audio with a 533Mgz proc. It says rx533pd on it, so it should be a 533Mhz chip. However, both OS X 10.4 and Linux report it as a 467Mhz chip. I don't see any jumpers to mess with like a G3/ G4 Yikes, so what am I doing wrong. I also notice that there is a red LED labeled ds5

Re: Anyone Overclocked a Yikes! Recently?

2008-11-22 Thread Larry Stotler
On Nov 22, 1:30 am, insightinmind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well .. I tool the plunge (or stick pin) and changed my Yikes! G4/400   to a G4/450. Still testing, but seems smooth thus far. Wish me luck ... temp rose from 24C to 28C. Forgot to mention that I put fans on those chips I

Re: Anyone Overclocked a Yikes! Recently?

2008-11-21 Thread Larry Stotler
On Nov 21, 1:38 pm, insightinmind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read up on OCing, and it seems to be easy enough on a Yikes!,   but maybe just too dangerous relative to overheating and data   corruption. Anyone have success on theirs? Yep. Got a G4/350 running stable at 400Mhz. I would

Re: See You Later...

2008-11-13 Thread Larry Stotler
On Nov 12, 12:09 pm, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comment:  I know this will strike a few raw nerves, but we have G- Books and G4 'Book List.  By the same model rationale, we could have separate lists for pre-Intel iMacs and Intel iMacs, also separate lists for pre-Intel Minis and Intel Minis.