Sonnet Encore G4 800MHz Driver?

[Johnnya101]

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?

 

[Johnnya101]

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

 

[Johnnya101]

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.

 

[ArmorAlley]

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.

 

[Themk]

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.

 

[bunnspecial]

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.