Interware PCI G4 Drivers

[macuserman]

I have in my collection an Interware G4 PCI upgrade card that I can't seem to find the extension for, the G3 card extensions that I have don't work, card seems to work fine, the machine posts and it shows up correctly in finder and with metronome, I did try it with the Sonnet extension but it didn't like that either. Anyone have any ideas on where to turn up the correct extension?

 

[Phipli]

I have in my collection an Interware G4 PCI upgrade card that I can't seem to find the extension for, the G3 card extensions that I have don't work, card seems to work fine, the machine posts and it shows up correctly in finder and with metronome, I did try it with the Sonnet extension but it didn't like that either. Anyone have any ideas on where to turn up the correct extension?

I usually use CPU Director with most cards, have you tried it?

I'll have a look and see what Interware drivers I have though.

 

[Phipli]

Nope, can't see anything for a G4 booster :/

Sorry.

 

[taddy]

Will this work?

 

[macuserman]

Will this work?

Ooh! Thank you that looks promising I’ll report back!

 

[macuserman]

Will this work?

Do those open for you? The system info booster app works for me but the extension doesn't let me copy it from my drive it just says error of type -37 or if I try to run the installer it says error of type -43. So close on it. But can't seem to try that extension.

 

[taddy]

I presume that the error occurred because the system you are using is not a Japanese OS, but a different language.
So I think you need to install it manually instead of using the installer.

Try it below.
1) Open the unzipped "BOOSTER G4 Installer" folder.
2) Open the "BOOSTER G4 Files" folder in the above folder and rename the garbled "BOOSTER G4xxxx" file to "BOOSTER G4 Extension".
3) After manually copying the renamed "BOOSTER G4 Extension" file to the "extension folder" in the system folder, restart the system.

 

[macuserman]

I presume that the error occurred because the system you are using is not a Japanese OS, but a different language.
So I think you need to install it manually instead of using the installer.

Try it below.
1) Open the unzipped "BOOSTER G4 Installer" folder.
2) Open the "BOOSTER G4 Files" folder in the above folder and rename the garbled "BOOSTER G4xxxx" file to "BOOSTER G4 Extension".
3) After manually copying the renamed "BOOSTER G4 Extension" file to the "extension folder" in the system folder, restart the system.

That was it! Thank you!

 

[taddy]

did it?
It was good to be of help.

 

[macuserman]

did it?
It was good to be of help.

Yes it worked a treat! Thanks so much, I don't know where you found that but I'm very grateful.

 

[taddy]

Interware suddenly went bankrupt in 2000.
Finding device drivers is also difficult.
I got this driver from Archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031014073452/http://www.fureai-ch.ne.jp/~katsuma/html/mac/interware.html