Did you enable the cache on that Beige G4? You still have to do that. I ad
acceptable start up times with my 400 G4 Beige. Not like my G4 450 tower,
but my wife still uses it an it runs great.

On 3/2/03 8:46 PM, "rew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 
> A long start-up time. I dropped a G4/450 ZIF I there and the start-up delay
> was sooooo loooong I thought the install had failed. I wiped and repeated,
> same thing. It was only because I was making dinner, and left the machine on
> (for about 20 minutes) it was able to complete its boot, and I realised that
> 20 minutes was the norm for the Beige G4/450 (admittedly, after this first
> boot, it subsequently didn't take so long - about 5-10 minutes, but still
> exasperating after a 'Restart Required' software update, when you realise
> how long a wait you're in for.


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