On 03/08/06, nagable at comcast.net wrote: > > I'm very impressed with the depth of knowledge going around this listserve. >I respond only occasionally but I have great respect for the folks who know >the answers to the questions that appear here. > > Here's my quandry: > > I'm ready to move to the Sonnet Dual G4 1.8GHz Processor upgrade. I bought >my wife a new G4 iBook (1.1 GHz) and it puts my Quicksilver 2000 (800 MHz) to >shame. > > The info on Other World Computing website says that I need to boot into OS >9.2 to do the firmware update. My Quicksilver model will not boot into >Classic. Unless your machine is a "Power Mac G4 (FW 800)", which IIRC doesn't apply to Quicksilvers, it'll boot into OS 9. No machine boots into Classic. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86209>. > My System Profiler gives the BootROM info as version 4.3.3f2. Isthis the >same as the firmware number, or is it something different, and if it is >different, how do I find out what firmware version is on my computer? <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117> has that information-there is none for Quicksilvers.