[G4] Power Mac G4 AGP

[Tony Gamble]

I think you need this one for OS X:

http://sonnettech.com/support/downloads/processorupgradecards.html#crescendoencore

... but you need to update to Panther 10.3 or higher first (a very
impressive step up from 10.2 anyway).

OS 9 seems to be increasingly hard to find these days.

 - Tony


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, LeBron Rod <towerwalker at yahoo.com> 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.
>
>
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