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| Software for G4 ZIF processor replacement for Power Mac G3 |
Posted by: bobo68 on 2015-06-13 14:15:17
Hi,
I bought a beige Power Mac G3 mini tower. It has a G4 400 Mhz processor installed instead of the original G3.
The replacement is from a company called Metabox (went out of business long ago). I read it is basically the same as Sonnet's Encore/ZIF G4 or Daystar's XLR8 MACh Speed G4 ZIF upgrades and that one can use the respective software to control the accelerator.
Here is a list of these upgrades: http://www.everymac.com/upgrade_cards/by_system/powermac_g3.html
I have been looking for control software (like Daystar's XLR8 MACh Speed Control) but had no luck so far.
Any hints are appreciated.
Best, bobo68
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Posted by: 360alaska on 2015-06-13 15:17:16
When metabox went out of business OWC bought and sold the rest of their stock of accelerators: http://eshop.macsales.com/Accelerators/Vendor_Page.cfm?vendor=metabox
I would suggest asking someone at owc...
Also: here's some information about the Joecard z: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G4CARDS/MetaboxG4_450_2MB/index.html
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Posted by: Byrd on 2015-06-13 15:32:00
Try Powerlogix' CPU Director - easily obtained, it tends to work with most third-party G3 Accelerators (better than Mach Speed Control, I've found)
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Posted by: bobo68 on 2015-06-14 03:19:34
I tried CPU Director 2.3b4 and b6 but it would not run on my beige G3 mini tower. It seems to be for OS 9 and OS X (has respective folders with resources and the readme says so) and I installed the system init it produces an error message relating to OS X (ioctl...) on OS 9.
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Posted by: bobo68 on 2015-06-23 08:22:13
I tried CPU Director 1.5f5 and that works! :beige: I can now control the 2nd level cache amongst other things.
BTW, the ZIF processor card is a Metabox joeCARD Z 400 Mhz. I think it was a unauthorized clone of a US product by a German company and that was also the reason why they had to cease production.
I rescued some info about the card from the web with the help of the Wayback machine. If somebody is interested drop me a note.
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