[G4] Power Mac G4 AGP

[Brian Deuel]

On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:26 AM, LeBron Rod wrote:

> I recently purchased a Power Mac G4 AGP 500MHz Single Core CPU,  
> 100Mhz Bus, 60G Hard drive, 2G RAM (upgraded by me), running OS  
> 10.2.8. I then purchased an upgrade Sonnet 1.8GHz CPU. The problem  
> that I have run into is that the firmware that came with the new CPU  
> requires that you boot from OS 9 in the Start Disk. I do not have OS  
> 9. Apparently, the Seller of this unit upgraded the OS without using  
> the original disks. I know very little about Apple products, but I  
> really like this machine and I am anxious to learn a great deal more  
> about this product since I find the OS is far superior to anything  
> that Microsoft has. I need a crash course on this machine,  
> particularly how to upgrade the CPU. I would also like to purchase  
> the OS bundle that includes OS 9.  Any information would be greatly  
> appreciated.

If you can, upgrade to Panther or Tiger, and read this:

http://briandeuel.blogspot.com/2007/11/powermac-g4-dp500-mystic-sonnet-upgrade.html

Ths is my experience upgrading my DP500 with the same processor card.

Brian