I had a similar set-up that worked fine for years. The directions
that you list above are correct. IFRC, you have to take a look at
the Beige's current processorthere were issues with some of them
that interfered with the installation of the Sonnet card. Do you see
that in your
I put the G3 back in place for the install, then
installed the G4 enabler from Sonnet, and put the G4 back in the system.
It ran well for another year or so before I traded the system to someone
who needed a fast desktop that could run OS9 for some software he
already had. So, I would
A couple months ago I bought in eBay an used 500MHz Sonnet Encore
ZIF card to upgrade a Beige desktop G3. The seller send me a pdf
file with the installation instructions but nothing else.
Due to work/burned computer/personal issues I wasn`t able to have a
close look to the upgrade intil now.
On Aug 24, 8:08 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Gorka Martinez Mezo wrote:
The Zif upgrade works just fine, but you need to reset the mobo
jumpers.
Sonnet upgrades do not require moving the jumpers, I think most (or
all) other brands do.
A couple months ago I bought in eBay an used 500MHz Sonnet Encore ZIF card to
upgrade a Beige desktop G3. The seller send me a pdf file with the installation
instructions but nothing else.
Due to work/burned computer/personal issues I wasn`t able to have a close look
to the upgrade intil now.
On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Gorka Martinez Mezo wrote:
* First of all, has someone tried this upgrade before? Any tips?
The Zif upgrade works just fine, but you need to reset the mobo
jumpers. OWC has a handy chart:
http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/FTP/Zif/owcmerczifset.pdf
This applies to
