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ADB on a Yikes! G4?
If any of you remember from the old forum, I posted a thread trying to figure out what my B&W G4 is (we concluded that somebody got a Yikes! G4 and just stuck it in a B&W G3 case for some reason).
If you remember, I popped some pics of the mobo and such in there. One of them was for a sodder point for an ADB port. Since the Yikes! G4 is just a B&W G3 with an official CPU upgrade, would I be able to have an ADB port on my B&W G4 just by soddering one on there and cutting a hole out the back? That would be really cool and handy if it would work. Any ideas?
If you remember, I popped some pics of the mobo and such in there. One of them was for a sodder point for an ADB port. Since the Yikes! G4 is just a B&W G3 with an official CPU upgrade, would I be able to have an ADB port on my B&W G4 just by soddering one on there and cutting a hole out the back? That would be really cool and handy if it would work. Any ideas?
While there may very well be an physical socket / solder point for an ADB port, it may not be supported by the system, or it may be deactivated on the software level. I say go for it, tho. it just might work
I guess it just depends on how much Apple changed the logic board for the G4. From what I've read, they barely changed anything aside from the CPU and heatsink. The yikes! G4 was produced mainly to get rid of leftover B&W G3 bits and peices that were laying around. So maybe, instead of redesigning the board a bit, they just left the ADB system in there and took off the port. That's what I'm hoping for.
Well, try it..Because, honestly the worst that could happen is you do a crappy soldering job...
I agree. Go for it. There should only be six solder connections to make. That won't take you too long... And fortunately, they are all big. ;-)
Peace,
Drew
Peace,
Drew
From what I remember of people adding ADB ports to the early iMacs there were also a few components that needed to be added too. Take a look at this and see if there are solder spots for any of the components they added:
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~t-imai/imace2.html
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~t-imai/imace2.html
When Apple removes support for something just by leaving out a few choice bits, it's always a toss-up as to where they drew the line and said "We'll install this but not that". Good luck!
Um...surely the worst that could happen is actually killing the G4? :-/ I certainly wouldn't want to take the risk of messing around with a G4's logicboard in this way...
if you kill the board i`d take the CPU... 
good luck if all goes will maybe i will try with my yikes g4
Well, once school is out, I guess that I'll give it a go.
Just be careful you don't kill that poor G4
You've certainly got a lot more courage than me when it comes to fiddling with prized Macs - I got really scared about pressing the cuda button on my G3, let alone soldering on its board! (if I knew how to solder 
)lol I'm gonna ask my dad to teach me how to solder. I don't fancy teaching myself by practicing on a G4 board!Just be careful you don't kill that poor G4
"Whoopsie, I dribbled solder across some chips... Oh well, can't be that important! *puts the G4 back together, plugs it in, and presses the power button* Oh noes! The Magic Smoke is escaping!"
Get-Back-In-My-BELLAH!
or capacitor...
or capacitor...
Bah. It's just a Yikes! If you kill it, there are plenty of B&W G3 motherboards around that are a 100% compatible cross-grade, and will also give you an ADB port.
I say, go for it, and to heck with the consequences (if you can afford the few bucks for a B&W board).
Peace,
Drew
I say, go for it, and to heck with the consequences (if you can afford the few bucks for a B&W board).
Peace,
Drew
I'm not really sure it's going to work even if you manage to get a connector soldered on. The ROM may only recognize a USB mouse and keyboard and connecting up the pins may cause problems.
Weller's "Better Soldering" booklet:http://www.cooperhandtools.com/brands/electronic_applications/55578.pdf
Weller's "Tip Care and Use"
http://www.cooperhandtools.com/brands/electronic_applications/Weller/instructions/Tip%20Care%20and%20Use.pdf
Weller's "Ten Commandments of Soldering"
http://www.cooperhandtools.com/brands/electronic_applications/ten_comm.htm
:O :O :O Only a G4?! Only?! Gah!
Anything less than a Digital Audio is crap.
I'm going to pretend my Sawtooth didn't hear that.
Sawtooth G4's were decent. AGP Graphics, Redesigned Motherboard and better RAM capacities. And they predate the Digital Audio.
Sawtooth G4's were decent. AGP Graphics, Redesigned Motherboard and better RAM capacities. And they predate the Digital Audio.
Nonsense!Anything less than a Digital Audio is crap.
Any G4 is super-awesome (except iBooks, with that stupid flaw where pressing the power button gradually breaks the logic board - most of the G4s were made before Apple quality went) - I love G3s and think they were some of the best Macs ever made (both the Beiges and the colour-Macs - very powerful, well built and ground-breaking designs from the colour-Macs, things we don't see so much of from Apple today), and so the G4s must be the same, only better. A Yikes is of course as good as a B&W G3 (which is awesome!), except with the addition of AltiVec and so compatibility with some of the new apps coming out now that are AltiVec only, and Leopard of course.
I guess winking emoticons and those with tongues hanging out mean something different here than they do everywhere else.
Let me know how it goes. I just got my hands on a 350MHz Yikes, and I'd love to use my Kensington TurboMouse 5.0 on it.
Edit: Nevermind, I realized mine was a Sawtooth.
Edit: Nevermind, I realized mine was a Sawtooth.
/me hugs his Gigabit Ethernet and glaresAnything less than a Digital Audio is crap.
break it up or il let my dual G4 quicksilver kick all your g4's asses
so how did this end ? dead yikes! ?
lets assume you kill the yikes!
i take it it spossible to take a b&w G3 board take the G3 cpu of it and replace it with the yikes! G4 ? because thats all a yikes! is
so how did this end ? dead yikes! ?
lets assume you kill the yikes!
i take it it spossible to take a b&w G3 board take the G3 cpu of it and replace it with the yikes! G4 ? because thats all a yikes! is
Nah, I haven't gotten around to it yet. What with school stuff, and vacation, and life, and laziness, and this, and that, I just haven't bothered yet. I will though 
Besides, I finally have an ADB Port to solder in there
Besides, I finally have an ADB Port to solder in there
or just look for a b&w G3 board pull the G4 of the yikes! and you basically have the same machine
less hassle too
less hassle too