This is how I got my 9600 w/ G4 800MHz to boot |
November, 05, 2002 11:38 AM |
redlarry |
After nearly three weeks of frustration, late nights and lack of sleep, I finally got OS X Jaguar to boot and install on my G4-upgraded system. Original machine: Apple PowerPC 9600 300MHz RAM: 768 MB I purchased two Sonnet products: Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 800MHz Sonnet Tempo Trio 1. Unplug the computer, pop open the case and REPLACE THE OLD PROCESSOR CARD with the new Crescendo G4 card. 2. INSTALL THE TEMPO TRIO card in one of the three *upper* PCI slots. (The card will not work properly if you install it on the three lower slots on a 9600, for some odd reason.) 3. Except for the Tempo Trio and Crescendo G4 card, REMOVE ALL NON-FACTORY CARDS and disconnect all non-factory hard drives installed in your machine. (I had to pull an Adaptec 2940UW card, a network card and two extra hard drives.) Leave only the standard drives and video card in there. I had only the factory Apple-Branded IBM SCSI 4GB hard drive in there, and the Apple 24X SCSI CD-ROM. 4. CHECK THE TERMINATION on the internal SCSI drives; Apple set them wrong at the factory. I found that both my hard drive and CD-ROM drive were terminated. I pulled out the jumper for termination from the IBM hard drive. (Make sure to check which jumper corresponds to which number; the layout is in reverse order.) The CD-ROM was last on the ribbon cable, which I left the termination ON. 5. The internal SCSI ribbon cable is normally plugged into the fast internal bus on the motherboard. DISCONNECT THE SCSI RIBBON CABLE AND PLUG IT INTO THE SLOWER SCSI BUS directly below it. 6. PRESS AND HOLD THE CUDA BUTTON for about a minute. (The cuda is the little red button on the motherboard near the processor slot.) This will "flush out" all stored settings in your Mac, so that it can recognize the new processor. 7. Plug in the computer, and BOOT INTO OS 9 as usual. If the hard drive is blank, make sure to have your OS 9 system CD handy. If the computer sits there for a bit, try pressing Command Option P R to zap the P-RAM, which should make it boot. Sometimes you have to do this a few times to get your Mac to wake up and recognize its new guts. 8. Once in OS 9, INSTALL THIS FIRMWARE PACKAGE: http://www.sonnettech.com/downloads/software/tempo133_firm _325.sit You’ll have to reboot after the update. This is necessary because most shipments of the Trio card aren’t 10.2 compatible with its included firmware. 9. After rebooting into OS 9, INSERT OS X CD into the drive. 10. Open up the XPostFacto software. While not immediately apparent, when the XPostFacto box is on the screen, there are menu items at the top. Set the THROTTLE to a higher number such as 14. Set the INPUT to KEYBOARD. Set the OUTPUT to your VIDEO CARD, which is often displayed as a series of crypic letters such as imxtt128m8 or something like that. Turn VERBOSE MODE on. Set the source and destination drives on the main dialog box, press the button and cross your fingers! OS X takes forever to boot for the first time, which makes you think that it locked up. Verbose mode shows that its actually thinking and doing things, although sometimes it sits there for a bit as well. Be very patient. Boot up and go make yourself a sandwich. Watch the screen while you eat. If it’s a good sized sandwich, you’ll finish at the same time the nice OS X startup thing appears. Also, OS X seems to freeze while it’s installing; it really isn’t. It takes almost an hour for it to install, and the progress bar can seem frozen for a long time. Again, be patient. 11. Once you’re in OS X, you’ll notice it’s slow as molasses. INSTALL THE PROCESSOR ENABLER SOFTWARE from here: http://www.sonnettech.com/downloads/software/sonnet_x_tune- up_1.2.5.sit Once you reboot, you’ll feel that OSX should feel better. However, the old 9600 video card is crap. Now you can install your new cards, and plug in your drives. I personally bought a new Apple USB keyboard and Kensington Optical Studio mouse, and installed an IDE hard drive and IDE CD-ROM drive yanked from a PC. They all worked fine. The interesting thing is that the Apple keyboard’s eject button originally didn’t work with the original SCSI Apple CD-ROM, but worked fine with the IDE CD-ROM drive. Also, make sure that your additional hardware is both OS X AND Sonnet Crescendo compatible. I had to toss my Adaptec card because it wouldn’t work with the Crescendo, even in OS 9 (it caused system freezes). I found that this method works for me every time. I traced my earlier problems to the Internal SCSI bus and termination of the hard drive. I hope this helps! |
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This is how I got my 9600 w/ G4 800MHz to boot |
November, 06, 2002 1:36 AM |
maury |
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hello redlarry i will try to install osx again with your descr. my problem is that the installation works but after the installation i have a black screen i thinked it's why the kenel is the apple one and not the xpf i tried to reload the installed osx ( 10.2 ) over the classic os and still the black screen i checked on the disc ( specs later ) if osx is there and it's like that he has installed but not writted on my disc no osx on the disc i changed the old 4gb disc with a 60gb ata/133 one and now i can't start the osx installation i see that he is copying the machkernel to the disc and xpf freez i will no check with your how to install specs sonnet g4/800 ram 1.28 gb cd original apple scsi / and external cd-rw over usb ide card with 3 connected drives 40/60 - 60 usb-firewire card radeon 7k original mac gfx card no problem with the gfx cards they are working with x and classic os 9.1 osx .1.5 thanks for your how to install |
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