[G4] MDD L2, L3 cache switch off at startup. Does it matter?

[John Baltutis]

On 10/11/07, dkmnow <dkmnow at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Charles Schneider <schneidr at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>    You say you have a Hardware section in the system preferences, I
>> do not have this.  Is your hardware pane in the section labeled
>> 'Other'.  This would imply it is a non-apple pref pane.  This is why
>> I believe your computer may have an upgraded processor from a third
>> party vendor.  You would probably have to contact the third party
>> vendor and ask them
>
> System preferences > Hardware > Hardware (right after Energy Saver)
>
> Eric's suggestion about the Development Tools may be
> the answer here, as I do have them installed but have
> never updated them.
>
> As for any "upgrade" to the processor, that part
> doesn't add up.  I've never seen any reason to think
> the processors were even replaced, much less upgraded.
>  As far as I can see, this was an off-the-shelf
> machine when I got it, despite being second-hand.

In XCode Tools 2.4.1 (and maybe earlier), compatible with Tiger, it's the
Processor.prefPane and is in /Developer/Extras/PreferencePanes/.