my 2 b&w rev1 and rev2 run both latest tigers without any need to use
xpf on them. Both dual head with radeon 7000s
How did you install it? Do you have internal DVD drives or use
Tiger on CD?
All the B&Ws that I have seen have only CD-ROMs internally, and I have
found that the machines cannot boot off a Firewire DVD drive. That's
why I had to use XPF to install - it writes the boot files to the hard
disk, so that the machine can boot off hard disk and load the
installer off DVD.
You can obviously remove the original CD ROM and replace with DVD ROM
or Writer and some B&Ws did come with DVD ROMs as well. If you don't
want to go to that level then you can temporarily cable the DVD to
the internal bus with case in open position for the install.
As with any OSX install I would take machine back to minimum spec
with PCI cards etc for install process and then add extras either one
at a time or couple at a time.
When installed, they run quite well. They're not fast but they are
usable and stable and noticeably quicker than a Beige.
I used to use a B&W 350 O'clocked to 450 running Jaguar in a
commercial print environment 18mths ago and it was rock solid and
only had 384 MB RAM. I was also able to run Adobe CS1 suite on this
machine with no real dramas. Yep more RAM would have been nice but
hey that's all I had.
You have those boxes on their original cpu and bus clocks - say that
u - or someone - don't tuned them with changing the clock jumper
blocks ?
Yes, they're stock 400MHz units. I did overclock my Beige to 333MHz
with some success - I might try on these machines, now that they are
stable.
Of all the B&Ws I've oclocked only one (the above mentioned work
machine) would take 100mHz over original spec and be reliable, all
others I've only managed to get 50mhz from with out any probs - that
is leaving standard bus rate at 100mhz. I didn't try messing around
with bus rates as this can be detrimental to timing on the PCI bus.
It also seems that the copper based G3s can take the speed bump more
reliably as well.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! Changing the RAM seems to have
done the trick & given me stable machines, but I now have about a
gigabyte of PC100 RAM that I can't use in my Macs... :¬(
There's always ebay to sell some of this extra (and buy extra) or
some kind computer shop may let you swap some RAM....?
You may also find that these machines are stable running OS9 with
some of this RAM too - for some reason OSX is more picky
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