Hi folks,
I was on this list a long time ago regarding my older 7600. Eventually, with all of your help I managed to get her running 10.1 with the stock 604e card inside.
Well, I have since upped the RAM to 320 megs and installed a Voodoo3 card in one of the PCI slots. I am getting a nice Maxpowr 400 MHz G3 upgrade card in the mail in a few days. I have a nice spacious 40 gig IDE drive sitting around. I need an ATA card and I am ready to try again! This time with Jaguar...
Anyway, my questions are:
Can the Voodoo3 be used under Jaguar? I know this was a big N-O under 10 and 10.1....
How does the G3 upgrade card wake up under XPF and Jag? Most upgrade cards I have ever dealt with are under OS9 and require some sort of extension to make them wake up. Plus the only upgrades that I have ever used don't replace the CPU--i.e. L2 cards, and 601 / Nubus G3s. So how does this work?
Thanks, Scott
Scott,
I have a PM9600 (originally 233 604e) that has Sonnet G3 300, sonnet ATA100 Adaptor connected to 7200rpm 40gig, 5400rpm 6gig and ATAPI CDRW, as well as original SCSI 4gig and and other 2gig HD. Graphics card is ATI Radeon700 Mac Edition, and all bar 2 PCI slots full - USB/Firewire, SCSI Ultra, TV Tuner (only works under OS9). RAM 468 MB, sonnetG3 card is being "managed" by PowerLogix Cache Profiler - allows more control over 9600's soldered MotherBoard L2 cache. ATA controller is really stable and is used under OS9 as main boot bus but OSX installed on original 4GB SCSI drive.
This all coexists extremely well under OSX.2.6. I don't have any problems waking from sleep or any other major problems to speak of.
As name implies the Newer card you are getting will replace the current processor daughter card in your machine. You will most likely need to press CUDA switch (Small surface mounted button - usually located near processor slot and most likely coloured red) after installing new G3. Whilst you will see a big improvement over original 604 processor don't expect the world from it as OSX seems happier with a G4.
As for VooDoo3 not sure - someone else should be able to shed light on that.
Regards
Simon Australia
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