Lombard firmware?

Hello all. I have a G3 PowerBook Lombard. It was a 333 MHz ** I replaced it with the 400 MHz processor and increased the ram up to 256mb and it's running OS 9.2.2. I'm going to replace the 4 GB HD with a larger one so that I can upgrade to OS 10.3.9. What I want to know if there is a Boot ROM version (aka firmware?)that I need to upgrade to and install. The current version is 1.0f1. Some might wonder why I'm doing this but I got this computer for free and I soon found out it works just fine. I have a Pismo 400 MHz (also got it for free)and I upgraded it to OS 10.3.9 and it too works fine. The version on the Pismo is 3.2.7f2. Could the Pismo's version be what should be installed on the Lombard? Any help will be greatly appreciated. John

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Posted on Aug 4, 2009 4:51 PM

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Posted on Aug 4, 2009 5:22 PM

No firmware update is required. See Mac OS X: Available firmware updates
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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Aug 4, 2009 6:54 PM in response to john nyto

john,

While you still are running 9.x, download 'PPC Checker' here...

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3CARDS/PPCchecker/

...and see if it reports this number for your CPU:

PowerPC 750L (LoneStar, Rev2.2) Copper G3 PVR = 0x00088202

This particular CPU (both 333 & 400MHz) runs perfectly with the max of 512MB in 9.x but will have a problem with any version of 10.x. The only workaround is to leave the top memory slot empty and run a low-profile 256MB in the bottom slot.

The symptoms of the bad CPU: Lombard will not successfully boot to 10.x CD/DVD, or it will boot but not install the software successfully, or it installs properly but will not restart to the HD, or if you are successful with the restart, you will have random freezes.

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