My G4 isn't overclocked, my fault, I meant to say 533MHz, sorry. Specs attached.
Alright, I'll try the firmware downgrade then. First I have to upgrade to 10.4 as there's still Panther installed - downloading now...
I have no normal SATA drive to check out the card. I do have a G4 Quicksilver that I bought for 40 bucks on eBay because I wanted the keyboard
but it's not in working order right now, after the Mac-sound it doesn't boot up but turns itself off again - I'm guessing a broken Harddrive but I didn't have time to check anything yet. So no, at this time no other machine with a PCI slot.
So far, I didn't try booting OS9 from the SSD because I couldn't install it on the SSD. The SSD shows up on the desktop with all three partitions, in First Aid everything checks out fine, no errors or anything, BUT only when it's connected via USB. I just wrote almost 6GB of random data onto it and then erased this data again, so the SSD works fine. But I couldn't install OS9 onto it, not even with the USB connection.
I'm trying to download another OS9 install, but A-drive doesn't let me download right now, it always fails after about 75% of the download is complete...
So the next steps are to replace Panther with 10.4.11, then downgrade the Sonnet firmware and try again...
I'm a bit confused about the PCI cards. I only have an ATI Radeon 9000 and a USB card that makes USB 2.0 possible, but in the System Profiler there's two USB-cards and another card listed that I don't even know about - and all in the same Slot - WTF??
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