Re: Throwing in the Towel – CPU Upgrades

2012-12-17 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Throwing in the Towel Date:Sunday, 16. December 2012 From:Alex Sciorino zeosr...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I just checked my favourite online auction site and I don't see any dual 1ghz. The best I can find

Re: Throwing in the Towel – CPU Upgrades

2012-12-17 Thread peterhaas
Just remember that the fastest G4 which was produced by IBM and/or Moto (Freescale) was 1.42 GHz, and the so-called 1.5 GHz (to accommodate the 100 MHz bus case), and 1.6 GHz, ..., 2.0 GHz G4s are really 1.42 GHz chips which have been purchased in bulk and then die sorted by the manufacturer,

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-17 Thread t...@prismnet.com
On Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:00:37 PM UTC-6, pdimage wrote: On 15/12/2012 16:32, Richard Gerome onecoo...@earthlink.netjavascript: wrote: So this left me wondering why so many put this 9800 in them??? Maybe someone here can tell me why they even use this 9800 card? When I go

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-17 Thread David
The ATI FireGL X3 is a great card for the G5 PowerMac, but I am not so sure it is a good choice for the G4. Also, only certain models can be converted for use in a Mac, and I can guarantee you that 80%, or more of those cheap $25 to $50 FireGL X3's for sale on eBay are NOT the ones that can

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-16 Thread Peter Devlin
On 15/12/2012 16:32, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: I bought that 9800 for a friend's G4 466mhz Tower and never used it because I couldn't flash the rom... I maxed the ram, put in a 250G 7200rpm HD (only reads 128G) and a new DVD super drive and installed Tiger. They had this

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-15 Thread Richard Gerome
to NC to visit them I'm going to download Leopard on it for them...-Original Message- From: Michael McMurtrey <skyking...@verizon.net> Sent: Dec 14, 2012 9:10 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Throwing in the Towel On Dec 14, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-14 Thread Michael McMurtrey
On Dec 14, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: I will hang on to the card and see if it works if I ever get a G5. There is a version of the 9800 that works on a G4, but they are expensive and hard to find; I know because I have been looking for one myself without success. The one card I

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-14 Thread David
is having problems with his 9800, but I just wanted to let everyone else know that it can, and has been done, successfully many times. - Original Message - From: Michael McMurtrey To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 6:10 AM Subject: Re: Throwing

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-14 Thread frrob
:* Friday, December 14, 2012 6:10 AM *Subject:* Re: Throwing in the Towel On Dec 14, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: I will hang on to the card and see if it works if I ever get a G5. There is a version of the 9800 that works on a G4, but they are expensive and hard to find; I know

Re: Throwing in the Towel

2012-12-14 Thread frrob
Michael: A later version of the 9800 worked only of G5s (or so I've been told) and I'll bet that is the one you have. That would be my luck... Well, we'll see what happens with the 9600 when I get it. Thanks, Rob J. On Friday, December 14, 2012 9:10:16 AM UTC-5, skyki...@verizon.net

Throwing in the towel (was Re: MDD G4 odd start/restart behavior)

2012-12-13 Thread frrob
Hello again! Well, I have given up on the 9800. I spent several hours again yesterday trying unsuccessfully to get the MDD to boot normally. I finally removed *every* hard drive except the boot drive (OWC 115 GB SSD), and every PCI card. No joy. I replaced the PRAM battery - that didn't

Re: Throwing in the towel (was Re: MDD G4 odd start/restart behavior)

2012-12-13 Thread Richard Gerome
I don't know if anyone talked about this or not? Is this a PC 9800? If it is it needs to have the rom flashed besides taping 3 and 11 pins...-Original Message- From: frrob <fr...@earthlink.net> Sent: Dec 13, 2012 3:05 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Throwing in the