forcing g3 firmware update?
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From: Space Case on 22 Jan 2006 23:19 Hi. I have a B&W G3 (rev 2 motherboard, as noted by '402' on the IDE controller) where I tried to install a Sonnet 1GHz G4 accelerator. In spite of pulling all the PCI boards except the video, and doing a video board firmware update, the system continued to get random crashes. So I'm trying to revert to the G3. The problem is that it has a cycle of about 20 seconds running, then 5 seconds freeze (where only the mouse moves but nothing else, including the clock); and the length of the freeze gets longer the longer the machine has been up. I tried running the Sonnet installer and telling it to deinstall the firmware patch (from a different disk, among the problems I had reverting is that I couldn't get the 9.2.2 disk I did the original patch from to boot) and that didn't make any difference. I tried the Apple firmware 1.1 upgrade, but it says that's already installed. How do I force it to take the firmware 1.1 install? Thanks, Steve
From: Howard S Shubs on 22 Jan 2006 23:34 In article <dr1lfo$m2m$1(a)eskinews.eskimo.com>, wormey(a)eskimo.com (Space Case) wrote: > How do I force it to take the firmware 1.1 install? Contact Sonnet for tech support. -- We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. from "Ode", Arthur O'Shaughnessy
From: Space Case on 23 Jan 2006 21:30 In article <howard-4CF1C3.23343022012006(a)sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>, Howard S Shubs <howard(a)shubs.net> wrote: >In article <dr1lfo$m2m$1(a)eskinews.eskimo.com>, > wormey(a)eskimo.com (Space Case) wrote: >> How do I force it to take the firmware 1.1 install? > >Contact Sonnet for tech support. I've been in contact with them, but at the rate of one email per day, it's really slow going. I had hoped to get a quicker response from the newsgroup. ~Steve
From: Howard S Shubs on 23 Jan 2006 21:50 In article <dr43gl$tq3$1(a)eskinews.eskimo.com>, wormey(a)eskimo.com (Space Case) wrote: > I've been in contact with them, but at the rate of one email per day, > it's really slow going. I had hoped to get a quicker response from > the newsgroup. I haven't tried contacting them recently, but don't they have a phone number? -- We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. from "Ode", Arthur O'Shaughnessy
From: Space Case on 24 Jan 2006 00:50
In article <howard-9EB708.21504923012006(a)sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>, Howard S Shubs <howard(a)shubs.net> wrote: >In article <dr43gl$tq3$1(a)eskinews.eskimo.com>, > >I haven't tried contacting them recently, but don't they have a phone >number? Yes, but I'm not at home, where the computer is, during the hours that they're available. (Work early, and lots of after-work activities.) Isn't the means by which a firmware install happens documented somewhere? I've tried looking, but in the limited time afforded me, I've not been able to find anything. ~Steve |