Upgrade help/questions

I have an ms 3678 ver 3 mobo and just ordered an athlon 2400 thouroughbred for a cpu upgrade. can anyone help me with some questions.
1)do i need to flash my bios and if yes how do i do it?--details please
2)what is the proper procedure for appling the thermal paste?
3)Is there anything else i should be aware of in your opinion?
4)Is 300watt power supply enough power for the new chip?
if you answer, thanks for your time and advice.

ok, i have went through the flashing the non fat file system and it doesn't seem that bad but this brings up yet more questions. is it ok to flash the bios before i install the new cpu. such as getting the computer ready to accept the new cpu and when it comes in from the mail, then i can just install the new cpu, and i am good to go. or should i wait until i install the new cpu to flash the bios? also i am confused about the boot disks, are these the same as having the win xp pro os cd. so, say instead of using the boot disks, i just use the cd with xp pro on it. is it the same thing? if not then i will just download the boot disk.
after all that, is putting in this new cpu saying that i need to reinstall windows again. is putting in this new cpu like having to start over from square one again. or are the boot disks just a program that will aid me in flashing the bios.
sorry for all the confusion but i am just trying to understand everything that is involved.

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Time to Upgrade - Help!

I currently have a 1.8 G5 that I bought in 2005. It came with Panther 10.3.7 and up to now has been relatively stable. Since I bought the computer within the Tiger realease window, I have the Tiger disc in hand. Since I now need Tiger to upgrade iTunes, Quicktime and other items, I now want to upgrade to Tiger (also as a prep to Leopard).
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I am most concerned about, after the upgrade:
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2. Will I still be able to connect to the internet without any additional settings.
3. Am I missing anything in the process so I don't lose my Home settings.
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I've been a Mac user for years, it just seems that as more is added to these software update, you have to increase your learning curve by quite a bit.
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How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
8. Select the destination drive on the Desktop and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom in the Ownership and Permissions section be sure the box labeled "Ignore Permissions on this Volume" is unchecked. Verify the settings for Ownership and Permissions as follows: Owner=system with read/write; Group=admin with read/write; Other with read-only. If they are not correct then reset them.
For added precaution you can boot into safe mode before doing the clone.
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Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
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Despite all the negative reviews at the App Store about iPhoto '11, I decided upgrade from iPhoto '08 so I could conveniently upload photos to FaceBook from iPhoto. (The FaceBook Uploader for iPhoto never worked for me.) I thought the ratio of negative reviews were unbalanced because people who are satisfied with the product have less motivation to write a review. Maybe I was wrong.
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I only bought iPhoto '11, not the iLife package, from the App Store. When I first opened iPhoto '11, I was warned that my library would no longer be readable by earlier iPhoto versions. No problem, I expected that. As I had somewhat over 15,000 photos in my iPhoto '08 Library, I was also notified that that it would take an hour or longer to rewrite the library. No problem, I expected that too. iPhoto first read my old library, then started rewriting. When the rewriting progress bar was just past halfway, iPhoto '11 suddenly quit and sent an "iPhoto Problem Report" to Apple. This has happened about 5 times now, both before and after restarting my computer. It might seem related to free disk space, but I just put in a new 750Gb hard drive with over 400Gb free. All my other specs also meet or exceed iLife's requirements.
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Hello everybody.
I have a few questions about upgrading the G3 if anyone would be willing to help.
First of all, I must tell you that I am new to the apple world, having been for most of my life a PC/windows user.
The story so far:
I was given a beige G3 desktop by a friend who had upgraded to the G5. I decided to use the G3 as a web browser and general 'lifestyle' computer as I use my PC for business.
However the G3 was a little old and outdated as it was for my needs.
G3 266MHz
256MB RAM
6 MB VRAM
6GB HDD
Mac OS 8.6
I couldn't even get it online as the modem cable had been lost long ago (it had been connected to my friends office network)
I tried building a modem cable myself out of a printer cable and a PC modem cable and that, as you can imagine, failed in a major way.
I did a bit of research and found out that OSX can connect to a windows network so I set about getting a copy of jaguar.
Once I got hold of a copy of jaguar (from applerescue £28 inc delivery)
I installed it without a problem and connected to my windows network allowing me to utilise my existing broadband connection.
Excellent, thought I, but why stop there.
I have built and upgraded many pc's in my time and I had a few components hanging around. Will they work in the G3?
One way to find out.
The first problem I encountered was one of cables and space. As you all probably know the beige G3 does not have much room inside for extras.
I also found that the desktop case was not suited to the environment. It took up way too much space on my desk. I couldn't put the monitor on top of it as it is a big heavy 20inch crt (my friend is a graphic designer) and there is a shelf over my desk that prevents it. However there was a space under my desk which the case would fit in perfectly, if only it was on its side.
Merely putting the case on its side didn't help. The design of the case meant that the thing kept falling over. The cds would fall out too and I had no idea what damage it would do in the long term.
So, junior hacksaw and drill in hand, I set about a major conversion.
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768 MB RAM
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Mac OS X
Loads of extra room inside for extras.
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Sorry that was a long read but I tend to get carried away when I am talking about computers.
Here are some problems I am having which I hope you kind, clever people can help me with.
1. I have a missing hard drive.
I have two ATA hard drives on the internal IDE channel 0 which work fine-ish (see question 2)
I have the original apple CDROM as master on internal IDE 1 and a small 1GB hard drive as slave on internal IDE 1. The small hard drive doesn't show up on the desktop. I can see the drive in disk utility but I can't do anything with it. It is not greyed out but any erasing or partioning gets so far then just stops. However, opening disk utility during installation doesn't have the same problems. I can erase and partition the drive and it shows up with the second listing under the name of the disk. Once OS X is installed it shows up on the desktop perfectly functioning. Once I have restarted it is gone again.
I read somwhere that having a hard drive and CDROM on the same IDE channel can cause problems, is this what is happening here?
I have a yamaha CDRW on the internal SCSI bus, if I use that as my CD drive and remove the CDROM from the IDE channel will that help (I'll try that anyway)
2. The original apple hard drive works so much better than the extra drive I fitted. I installed a 17GB drive as master and have installed OS X on it but it is so slow. I know the drive is 4600rpm but I can't believe how much faster the apple hard drive is. I have installed OS X on both drives and the difference is stunning. With OSX installed on my 17GB drive it takes just over 14 minutes to boot up, with OSX installed on the apple 6GB drive it is more like 2 minutes. I know that the 17GB drive is old and slow but that is a big difference. Could it be a driver problem?
I have looked around online for drivers for the hard drive but, as I said before, being new to the apple side of computers I don't really know where to start looking.
3. I have installed an unsupported USB card. It seems to work fine. Everytime I boot up I get a message saying:
'over current warning - the usb device installed is drawing too much power, the hub it is attached to will be disabled.'
I click okay but the thing still works!
I have a wireless mouse plugged into it and it works fine even though it has been disabled.
Is this going to explode?
The words 'over current' sound scary.
4. Harking back to question 1. If I disconnect the CDROM on the internal channel to enable me to use my third hard drive, will I be able to boot from the SCSI CDRW?
5. Can anyone suggest a good system monitoring program? As mentioned I bought a CPU upgrade and I am a little suspicious about it. I want to know what speed it is running at. The docs that came with it say the the apple system profiler will not give the correct reading of CPU speed and I should use CPU director instead.
Call me cynical but is it possible that the CPU I bought is not what it says on the tin.
ASP says it is 333MHz and it should be 1GHz. CPU director does indeed say it is running at 1GHz but can I believe that? It is, in my opinion, possible to write a piece of software to give the wrong CPU speed thereby allowing someone to sell a 333MHz chip as a 1GHz chip and saying 'only our software can give correct readings'
I had the same thing with a broadband supplier recently. My connection was really slow for days. I ran several online speed checks to ascertain the speed. Out of the six speed checks only the suppliers own one said I was getting the connection speed I should have been, all the others gave really low speeds which reflected in the fact that it took an age for a web page to download, not something you should be getting on a 2Mbit connection.
On the phone to the suppliers customer services and they refused to take any speed check but theirs as true. I ran theirs and it always came up with the same number. 'Then your connection is working perfectly' they said. The five other speed checks and my own eyes told a different story but they wouldn't have any of it, instead telling me my PC was to blame, even going on to tell me to disable firewall and antivirus and run my PC in safe mode with no startup programs!! ********. Anyway, I want a third opinion about processor speeds so if anyone could tell me the name of a good program to do this (preferably free) I would be grateful.
Thanks for any help any of you can give me. I am learning more and more about apple hardware by the day and I am fast becoming one of the converted.
broddr

Hey guys,
thanks for answering so soon.
To answer the questions asked:
The motherboard is either a rev b or c. I remember checking this when I first had the idea of upgrading the cpu. I am not sure if it is a b or c but it is definately not rev a.
I think the cpu upgrade is working fine.
As Frank mentioned, it seems most of the cpu speed utilities use ASP for their information and give exactly the same speed reading.
I went a little more basic.
I ran CPU director and put the cpu speed at 333MHz and timed how long it took a few apps to open, then used CPU director to put the speed up to 1000MHz and timed the same programs again.
The speed difference was more than noticeable so from this I can only assume the CPU is running at 1GHz.
I have installed 9.2 on a seperate partition but it seems to be a weird version.
It came with a freinds G5 software for his iMac and is labelled 'additional software'
I installed it on a whim (because I am like that) and it gave me 'classic support'
I can now run classic apps in OSX and I have, on occasion, been able to boot into the 9.2 system. Only occasionally though.
Once booted into the 9.2 system there is no optical drive support and hardly any of the options I remember from OS8.6.
From this I am assuming that it is a cut down version of 9.2 bundled with new iMacs to enable users to use classic apps.
That doesn't explain why sometimes I can boot into it though.
Any of you heard of something like that.
I am planning to purchase a full copy of 9.2 when funds allow.
I have disconnected the CDROM which is on the same IDE channel as my third hard drive and used the cuda button to force the motherboard to recheck its hardware. Upon boot though the only difference it made is that I didn't have a CDROM. The third hard drive was still awol.
The SCSI yamaha CDRW is bootable but that makes little difference as disconnecting my IDE CDROM makes no difference on whether or not I can see the third hard drive.
I do know about the 8GB partition and OSX is sitting on the first partition which is 7.95GB.
I tried using xpostfacto to get around this which kind of worked. It did allow me to put OSX on a larger partition but caused no end of problems at boot so I cleared NVRAM and erased all the hard disks and started afesh.
The 17GB hard drive is in fact 15.91 GB, sorry about that. It came in a PC I bought which was (incorrectly) labelled as having a 17GB hard drive and since then I have just called it the '17GB hard drive'.
Since I last wrote I have done a little more research on the hard drives and found that the 6GB original apple drive and the 15GB drive are both 5400rpm so that cannot be the problem.
Here is some more accurate information on the drives:
IDE 0-
Master - 15.91GB Fujitsu MPE3170AT - seems to work fine apart from the aforementioned slowness - first partition is 7.95GB with OSX installed.
Slave - 6GB Maxtor 90651U2 - works fine
IDE 1-
Master - Matshita CR57 CDROM - works fine and is bootable.
Slave - 1.19GB WDC AC21200H - this is the one I just cannot use or see.
SCSI internal - Yamaha CDRW - works fine and is bootable.
Could the problem be that I have overloaded the internal bus by having four devices on the IDE and a SCSI device?
I have since used a program called disk warrior which states that the 1GB WDC disk is of an unrecognisable format.
I have sucessfully used disk utility to zero it out but it makes no difference.
I think it may just be trashed.
The USB card is still a puzzle.
I am, right now, using a mouse plugged into the USB card which is, according to OSX, disabled.
Scratching of head.
Maybe it is still functioning because the apple PSU has lots spare to give because I have a second PSU taking a lot of the strain? I just don't know.
This whole boot time thing is puzzling to the extreme.
As I said before. I have installed OSX on the 6GB Maxtor drive and the machine starts up in under 2 minutes so I can only assume that there is no hardware problem elsewhere.
When I use the Fujitsu drive its 10 - 14 minutes. So from that it is logical to assume it is the hard drive. Maybe it has a really small cache or something. Or maybe the apple just doesn't like it much.
Once the machine is up and running it runs just fine. A few programs like entourage are a little slow to boot.
I don't know what the benchmark is as I have never used an Apple except this one.
For instance safari takes around 2 seconds for the icon to stop bouncing and about 5 seconds in total to be up and have loaded the home page. Is that about normal?
Another question I have to ask you fine fellows.
Can you move some of OSX's built in applications and utilities to a seperate partition and still have them function properly?
I would like to use the apple hard drive as the OSX installation disk but at 6GB, once I have installed the OS there ain't much room left for anything else.
I have already installed MS office and Appleworks and a few other apps to a separate partition and they work fine.
I suppose though that if I did that and the problem is slow access to the fujitsu disk, once I installed OSX to the apple disk and installed apps to the fujitsu disk I would still have problems accessing those apps.
i don't know really. I think I am going to have to take the machine apart again and experiment until I can find the problem.
Another quick question.
Could it be RAM? Surely either RAM works or it doesn't right?
My system is correctly identifying the 768megs of RAM, if there was a problem with the 512MB of PC100 RAM I installed it just wouldn't show up.
Anyway, thanks for all your help so far,
I think I am going to save some cash and buy a new Apple machine - any suggestions which?
Broddr.
Beige G3 Desktop Mac OS X (10.2.x)

UPGRADE ASSISTANT QUESTIONS for ECC6.0???????911

I have used upgrade assistant in the past for 4.6C and 4.7 upgrades and had no problems. I am having trouble getting the assistant to work through the internet browers. I need help with a couple of questions:
First: Do I need do a prepare and SERVER option like I had in the past with R3UP?
Second: Is there anything special that needs to be done for ports 4239,4240,4241. I can reach my server through the internet of some of the ports that R3 uses.
It seems the java is not recognizing my i5 server and I am not sure where the disconnect is.
This is the error I am receiving when I try to start the upgrade assistant:
ERROR: Unable to load resource: http://sapdev:4239/ua/uagui.jnlp

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp spec="0.2 1.0" codebase="http://SAPDEV.SWIRECC.COM:4239/ua" href="uagui.jnlp">
<information>
    <title>Upgrade Assistant</title>
    <vendor>SAP AG</vendor>
    <description kind="short">SAP Upgrade Assistant</description>
    <icon href="http://SAPDEV.SWIRECC.COM:4239/ua/pics/sdtgui_big.gif"/>
</information>
<security>
    <all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
    <j2se version="1.4+"/>
    <jar href="uagui.jar" main="true" download="eager"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="UaGui">
     <argument>-host</argument>
     <argument>SAPDEV.SWIRECC.COM</argument>
     <argument>-port</argument>
     <argument>4241</argument>
</application-desc>
</jnlp>

Usually it's done like
- PREPARE
- exchange SAPup with the newest version
- add your application fix <application>_FIX to /usr/sap/put
- $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -cp /usr/sap/put/ua/ua.jar UaServer
- give an administrator password
After that the UA should listen on port 4239
You can verify that on the machine via
netstat -tn | grep -i LISTEN | grep 4239
Also check that you have either no proxy or add the box' name to the exception list of the browser (because Java uses that exception list too).
Markus

Upgrade Help... is my install disk good?

Hi all... may your 2007 unfold as you prefer...
I bought Tiger and was testing out how it would run, on a cloned B/U firewire drive, before installation on my main drive...
I ran into install problems and after 2 failed attempts on the external drive i'm nervous to install on the main.
The last lines of the installation log reads:
"Dec 13 23:05:05 localhost : Performing post-extraction actions
Dec 13 23:05:05 localhost : SecAlternate system ("/Volumes/OSX B:U") returned 100079". Then it stalls and never finishes.
So here'squestions:
Do i need to have the upgraded disk set up for "Journaling"?
Could i have a bad Install disk?
AFAIK, no problems w/the drives nor w/present OS config.
Any thoughts, recomendations or support would be helpful as i'm at a loss here...
Pismo G4/550;SuperDrive;DLink BT;1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) upgraded CPU & Optical Drive!

Ce Ann:
Sometimes installing to an external HDD can be a challenge. I understand your hesitation to install to your Pismo and possibly mess things up. However, if you have a Full Retail Version of Tiger I don't think you need to worry.
Here's what I suggest:
1. Back up (clone) your entire HDD to your external Firewire HDD using SuperDuper. The point of this is that if the installation does not go well you can clone your HDD back from the external FW HDD.
2. Disconnect your external HDD from the Pismo.
3. Insert the Tiger install disk and boot up your Pismo holding down the "C" key.
4. When booted go to the Utilities menu and launch Disk Utility.
5. Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the sidebar.
6. Select First Aid in the main panel.
7. Click Repair Disk button.
8. If DU reports disk does not need repairs click Repair Disk Permissions button. Then quit DU and go to installation below.
9. If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
10. If DU reports errors it cannot repair you will need to use a utility like Tech Tool Pro or Disk Warrior
I am assuming that your computer meets the minimum system requirements for Tiger.
Installation
1. You are already booted from the Tiger installer disk.
2. Lauch the installer by clicking Install.
3. After the preliminaries select installation option.
4. If you wish you may choose to customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations (if you don't think you need it--most people don't); also deselect Additional Printer Drivers.
5. Proceed with installation.
6. After successful installation computer restarts and you go through the setup procedure.
7. Restart and Repair permissions (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility)!
8. Download and apply the Mac OS X Update 10.4.4 (Combo)
9. Restart and Repair permissions!
10. Run Software Update and apply all available updates.
As you may have noticed I am running Tiger on my upgraded Pismo and on a 500, and both run great.
Please post back with further questions or comments.
Good luck.
cornelius
Message was edited by: cornelius

Upgrade help for G3 350Mhz OS 10.0.4 to 10.1.5

I've been loaned a Connon PowershotA520 digital camera that requires OS X 10.1.5 to operate camera with my machine. An older B&W G3 350Mhz. with 128MB installed RAM, running Classic 9.1. and OS X 10.0.4 on same hard drive. What is the easiest and least costly way to upgrade to OS X 10.1.5 and not loose Classic? I have a ton of programs and peripherals that want the option of Classic.Other questions - can upgrade be done with CD's or downloads - and will I need RAM upgrade as well? Will it require a full erase and reinstall? Help appreciated.
B&W G3 350Mhz. Mac OS X (10.0.x) 128 MB RAM

Hi Bird 1;
May I welcome you to the Apple Discussion Forum.
I concur with the solution Tom presented to you.
If you still want to upgrade OS X instead, I would suggest that rather then upgrading to 10.1.5 you seriously consider going to at least 10.2.8. When OS X reached 10.2.8 it was a much better operating system then anything that preceded that.
Allan

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