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| Sonnet Encore G4 800MHz Driver? |
Posted by: Johnnya101 on 2017-05-21 15:41:58
Got a G3 minitower with a G4 ZIF upgrade.
No fans on it though... Strange.
Anyways, it has "800/1MB" sticker so Im guessing its an 800Mhz. Sonnet only has drivers for the 500MHz and the 1GHz...
Anyone know where I can get a driver for this 800 one?
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Posted by: Johnnya101 on 2017-05-21 17:07:18
Think I found it, of course they removed it a while ago... Ill try it later and see what happens. Right now my processor is a "67 MHz G4"!
http://web.archive.org/web/20040803105928/http://www.sonnettech.com/downloads/proc_upgrds_sw.html
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Posted by: Johnnya101 on 2017-05-21 18:07:34
Works! This thing absolutely blows away everything you throw at it now... Its got 768 MB ram so it takes a while to start up but I think theres a setting to disable that.
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Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2017-05-22 05:49:07
It's actually the G4 that takes up the time. The Sonnet extension causes it to restart during the bootup sequence.
I have almost the same setup — 640MB RAM and G4 1GHz card (awaiting its power cable though). It's the fastest way to run System 8.1.
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Posted by: Themk on 2017-05-22 07:22:47
It's the fastest way to run System 8.1. I remember running System 8.6 on my Sawtooth a long time ago when I still had it. It seemed very fast and was quite responsive! Maybe that's just my memory, but I liked it.
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Posted by: bunnspecial on 2017-06-08 12:18:43
I have a 1ghz in a Minitower, and although I primarily use it in OS 9 it is quite useable in OS 9 as well.
It does sometimes remind me of starting a carbureted car on a cold day-if mine hasn't been on in a while, it sometimes needs a couple of starts and maybe a PRAM reset to get it to boot completely. Once it's going, though, it's a beast.
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