[G4] Re:Start up Chime and G4 AGP processor card

[keith_w]

Richard Kriss wrote:
> This is my 2-cents worth on the Startup Chime situation.

Thanks for the input, Dick...
In fact, I have zapped the PRAM, and there has been no change in the silence 
of my chime!
Still researching it...

Oh, by the way, purely in the interests of accuracy, I erred in identifying my 
CPU the other day.
It's actually a PowerMac G4 MDD 2003.
For some reason I had thought it was a 2002, but the manufacturing date puts 
in into the later model ID.

keith whaley
-- 

> First, at one time I had a Power PC 9500 and when I added a 3rd party G4
> upgrade card, the tone of the startup chime changed.  I called the company
> that made the G4 card and they gave me a big run around that the chime was
> not needed and they had no chimes on the factory units.  My assumption was
> they screwed up the card and did not want to admit to the error.  I replaced
> the 9500 with a real G4 machine..
> 
> For reasons I do not understand the volume of the G4 Startup Chime would
> change with time.  The fix was very simple ..... just zap the pram and the
> volume came back normal.  I could tell by sound of the start up tone when it
> was time to zap or reset the machine.
> 
> The G4 has now been replaced with one of the new 24-inch 2.4 GHz iMacs and I
> am very pleased with the new Mac.
> 
> BTW, if someone needs a good Apple G4-450 AGP processor card, drop me note.
> I upgraded the G4 to a G4 1GHz with a OWC card a few years ago.  The 450
> would be a good upgrade to 350 or 400.  The 450 processor is a drop in card
> replacement for a Power PC Sawtooth.
> 
> 
> Dick