<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I am really impressed with the response that I have received and I want to thank you for your generous support. I have read the blog that you directed me to, and when time permits (I am at work right now) I will attempt to cover this upgrade issue. Thanks again.<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Brian Deuel <briandeuel@lavabit.com><BR>Subject: Re: [G4] Power Mac G4 AGP<BR>To: towerwalker@yahoo.com, "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><BR>Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 9:39 AM<BR><BR><PRE>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
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