Thu. Sep 4th 2008 12:40 AM - Up & Running
I tore down the eMac for the vital parts last night, hard disk, RAM and optical drive. Of course I made sure the eMac was still functional by refitting a smaller 40gb HD and CDROM with 384mb RAM.
As a result though, the Quicksilver was placed into active service.
Quicksilver in Action
The setup is still bulky and the desk does need a tidy up. An LCD panel would really set this machine off.
After the fitting of new parts I test started it. No chime. Turned out to be the 12v positive feed to the CPU module, the pin had come loose of the molex connector.
Test start 2, this time it chimed and started up to... not quite ideal conditions. One of the wires inside the case, an ATX 3.3v feed had split and was only just touching against the pin, brushing it. Opened it up and cut the 3.3v line out, it wasn't exactly needed in this configuration.
Third time lucky? Yes. Fired right up smoothly and went into an 8 hour run cycle to ensure this machine was reliable. Tests included an hours idle, then some normal use, some heavy use, then power tests (sleep mode, etc) before throwing it back into another idle test cycle. Very stable, very fast and very spiffy.
From a doorstop in the IT administrators office to a fully working 800mhz "Supercharged" G4. The Phoenix has well and truly been reborn.
Imagine BootX even whipped up a custom boot screen for it.
Imagine BootX Custom Boot Screen
Cheers
- MB
I tore down the eMac for the vital parts last night, hard disk, RAM and optical drive. Of course I made sure the eMac was still functional by refitting a smaller 40gb HD and CDROM with 384mb RAM.
As a result though, the Quicksilver was placed into active service.
Quicksilver in Action
The setup is still bulky and the desk does need a tidy up. An LCD panel would really set this machine off.
After the fitting of new parts I test started it. No chime. Turned out to be the 12v positive feed to the CPU module, the pin had come loose of the molex connector.
Test start 2, this time it chimed and started up to... not quite ideal conditions. One of the wires inside the case, an ATX 3.3v feed had split and was only just touching against the pin, brushing it. Opened it up and cut the 3.3v line out, it wasn't exactly needed in this configuration.
Third time lucky? Yes. Fired right up smoothly and went into an 8 hour run cycle to ensure this machine was reliable. Tests included an hours idle, then some normal use, some heavy use, then power tests (sleep mode, etc) before throwing it back into another idle test cycle. Very stable, very fast and very spiffy.
From a doorstop in the IT administrators office to a fully working 800mhz "Supercharged" G4. The Phoenix has well and truly been reborn.
The system is most certainly capable of Mac OS X Leopard from the week long test run I held last week.
Imagine BootX even whipped up a custom boot screen for it.
Imagine BootX Custom Boot Screen
Cheers
- MB