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Re-conquest! Power Macintosh 5200CD
yup, my 5400 board was stuck at 640x480 in that 5260 case, as to why they made a turd worse beats the heck outta me.
the only thing worse then a turd is Hershey squirts, thats the 5260.
the only thing worse then a turd is Hershey squirts, thats the 5260.
@Trash80: Like always, you are an asset to the Army. If you could find the latest Sonnet Driver for my Cresendo G3 card, I'd be ever so greatful. I can't reinstall OS9 without it as (at the moment) I can't find the original card that went into the L2 slot... Or I just might be dumb, and it turns out you can re-install OS9 without the original L2 card, and I'm just being a wuss worrying that I might bork the system. I've never owned a Crescendo Card before coius kindly dontated his pre-installed G3 Power Macintosh 6500 to me. I've wanted to clear the OS on it and start fresh, but I've been worried to do it w/o that driver.
Dont need any card in the L2 slot. Just pull it, reinstall the OS then install driver and then reinstall card. No luck on the newer driver yet. I am using 7.6.1 so I dont really need it, but might clear up my boot issue.
All 5xxx series are supported to run up to 9.1 by Apple, G3 or no G3. You'll have no trouble reinstalling OS 9 on the machine, however until you get the Sonnet drivers, it won't recognise/use the G3, you'll be stuck with the onboard 603e.
In the Sonnet Crescendo/L2 G3 400MHz/512 box, I've got: Crescendo/Encore Install Diskette 1.4.5
Has anyone got anything more recent than 1.4.5?
Has anyone got anything more recent than 1.4.5?
I hear there is a 2.0.3 on the street somewhere just have not been able to find it.
In that case, I'll keep looking! 
However, the Copyright date on diskette and manual is 2000 and the "learning about the software" page is mostly about the patches necessary to run their G4 cards under OS9 in G3 (iMac?) systems. The
Be that as it may, simple solution:
Copy "Sonnet Processor Upgrade Extension" and the folder with "Metronome" in it as backup for re-installation after the OS9 install and that should be that.
My 6360/Crescendo L2/400/1MB has been running underOS9 with the 1.4.4 drivers (Metronome Copyright 1998-2000) since I bought 9.0 off the shelf. My guess is that there's no change to the L2 drivers to be had in any later release than 1.4.5, if that even changed for the 1.4.5 release.
That's a guess, not a WAG, probably a good one. :beige:
However, the Copyright date on diskette and manual is 2000 and the "learning about the software" page is mostly about the patches necessary to run their G4 cards under OS9 in G3 (iMac?) systems. The
Be that as it may, simple solution:
Copy "Sonnet Processor Upgrade Extension" and the folder with "Metronome" in it as backup for re-installation after the OS9 install and that should be that.
My 6360/Crescendo L2/400/1MB has been running underOS9 with the 1.4.4 drivers (Metronome Copyright 1998-2000) since I bought 9.0 off the shelf. My guess is that there's no change to the L2 drivers to be had in any later release than 1.4.5, if that even changed for the 1.4.5 release.
Sonnet seems to have added the drivers/utilities for newer generations of their accelerators to a standardized installer disk. Hence, the Manual and Label designation of the 2000 release of 1.4.5 for the Crescendo L2 being spec's as Crescendo/Encore.
The quotes explain thing like why the G3/G4 system patches for Encore upgrades shouldn't be installed manually for an L2 upgrade.
That's a guess, not a WAG, probably a good one. :beige:
In the CrescendoPCI G4 800MHz/1M box, I found the ©2002 Crescendo/Encore Install Diskette 2.0 and I'll bet if it's on there, it'll put the same drivers for a Crescendo L2 into a System Folder as my 1.4.4 installer. If it's not on there, I'll bet this is the cause of any confusion about there being later Crescendo L2 Drivers. Those were as mature as they were likely to get in the 1998-2000 1.4.4 release.
I've got the PCI X Installer CD that came with it too. That's for Crescendo/PCI and MAXpowr PCI accelerators.
I've got the PCI X Installer CD that came with it too. That's for Crescendo/PCI and MAXpowr PCI accelerators.
For what it's worth, the target market for the entire 5x00 family was education, and at the time, you really didn't need much more than an LC III or so computationally to run *all* of the edutainment games or do the level of productivity that happened in most K12 schools and even in many higher ed labs for tasks like writing or general network computing tasks. (checking "web mail" for example.)
In service of this particular context, the 5260 was probably a heck of a lot cheaper than its stablemates at the time. I'd be unsurprised to discover that like its distant predecessor the LC520, the 5260 was available in lab packs as a further cost savings technique.
Woefully, probably because it was targeted primarily at the education market (*and may not even have been available at retail or via catalogs) I can't seem to find any references to the price.
Ultimately, I don't know why they'd do it, other than to have an excuse to price it lower, and I think this is what leads to Steve Jobs' mantra for modern Apple-- it's not in their DNA to build really budget-focused machines that aren't objectively bad computers.