New Sawtooth!

[coius]

Specs:

Dual 450Mhz G4

960MB (1x 512MB, 1x 256MB, 1x 128MB 1x 64MB)

GeForce2 MX AGP 2x 32MB

DVD Burner

Zip 250MB

9GB 10K RPM SCSI-20MB/s | 40GB 7200RPM ATA/5 HDD

PCI cards:

Card one: USB 2.0 2-port card

Card two: 64-bit PCI SCSI Card. 40MB/s w/ two busses

Card Three: 802.11g PCI Wifi Card

It's a Sawtooth since it has 10/100 Ethernet

btw, it's my second sawtooth (my other is upstairs with no video or ram) and my 3rd G4. The quicksilver is doing double-duty as a personal machine, as well as the family machine because the screen on the iMac broke when the iMac took a fall because the dog got under my feet while I was transferring it.

 

[coius]

update. It was a different specs, some better, some not so.

It has a 80GB ATA HDD instead of 40, better, but it only has 3x256MB and 1x128MB RAM

the other dissappointing thing is that it's only an ATI Rage Pro 16MB AGP 2x

So it makes it a bit slower under OS X. I am wondering if I should install a 32MB Radeon PCI Card and see if it speeds up the video.

It's not that bad under 10.4 Dashboard is almost smooth as far moving to the front, but Quartz and Core Image (obviously) is not able to be enabled. That sucks... At least the Radeon would be able to do that.

Anyone want to comment on what would be faster? A PCI Radeon 32MB I or the included AGP 2x ATI Rage Pro 16MB?

Questions? Comments? Write Below!

 

[~Coxy]

The Radeon should definitely be faster. You will of course need that old hack to enable Quartz Extreme on PCI devices.

 

[Christopher]

What kind of radeon 32MB is this? I have one and it has no support for either quartz or Core Image.

Also, try Firewire Disk Mode on yours, mine will shut itself down when I try it.

CLEARLY there is something wrong in the board but Apple Hardware Test said there wasn't. :?:

 

[coius]

What kind of radeon 32MB is this? I have one and it has no support for either quartz or Core Image.
Also, try Firewire Disk Mode on yours, mine will shut itself down when I try it.

CLEARLY there is something wrong in the board but Apple Hardware Test said there wasn't. :?:

It's the Radeon Mac 7000 Edition I think. It's only got VGA and it's 32MB VRAM.. I have used the mod on it before on a Beige G3, and yet it does work. Any Radeon should run Quartz because it just needs to be a card that has an AGP Equivalent that can run Quartz/Core Image. So a PCI Radeon 9200 Should run core image at least in software Not gonna be the best, but me....

Anyways, FWTDM mode works. It didn't like the SCSI card to boot but I found out why. There was the gateway version of the SCSI Card apple released for the G4s in it. That struck me as odd. OS X saw it, but OS 9 wouldn't.

I looked through my parts, and found the Mac version of it. It's an UW/ SCSI-III w/ LVD. The HDD is a SCSI-III LVD Drive (8.5GB after format) and the system now boots OS X 10.4 off of it

Only leaves 6GB left though. Oh well...

 

[Cloud]

What kind of radeon 32MB is this? I have one and it has no support for either quartz or Core Image.
Also, try Firewire Disk Mode on yours, mine will shut itself down when I try it.

CLEARLY there is something wrong in the board but Apple Hardware Test said there wasn't. :?:

Do you have a hard drive set as master plugged into the primary IDE bus? IIRC there was a kbase article describing unexpected behavior in TDM if there was no master disk on the primary IDE controller on macs. Exact same thing happened on my iLamp 800 until I took it apart and discovered that the DVD-RW drive was set as master and the hard drive as slave. Setting them vice-versa allowed TDM to work again!

EDIT: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25584 is it. Typed all of the above on my iPhone while taking a shower. I really *need* copy/paste on the iPhone!

 

[IPNixon]

Typed all of the above on my iPhone while taking a shower. I really *need* copy/paste on the iPhone!

Is there really any reason to be on an iPhone in the shower...? Not to mention running the risk of voiding a warranty for water damage...