[G4] problem was OWC Mercury Extreme 1.4 GHz processor upgrade!

[James Asherman]

On Jun 15, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Joel Threatt wrote:

> just got a replacement Mercury Extreme 1.2. The first one I received 
> failed the post IE.. no level 3 cash. They (OWC) were more than prompt 
> getting me a replacement. The new one failed as well. So feeling 
> nothing to loose, I set the jumpers for 1.33mhz. The machine would not 
> boot so I shutdown, reset the jumpers to 1.2, as shipped, started up 
> and lo and behold there was the level 3 cashe in the profiler and all 
> post's passed. Go figger. I am going to give this 25 days and see if 
> things stay normal and if not I am going to trade for a Sonnet. I have 
> heard a few folks complain about the Mercury upgrades but for now mine 
> is doing fine.  Good luck.
>

1.33 crashed on my system too. 1.2 works good.
underclocking the 1.4 might work.