thanks for the reply. that's about what i figured i'd have to do. i was kinda hoping that someone else had tried it before and could provide feedback. oh, well. it's been a while s…

argh, as i feared, the connector on the personality card (the a/v version) is some weird proprietary thing. there are two cables leading to the card: one looks like either SCSI or …

spent an hour and a half looking through the maintenance pdfs for the aio (got them from some nook or cranny on apple's site way back when), and learned a lot. unfortunately, very …

Well, that's pretty cool to know. You need to find an EE nerd who will be willing to do that stuff for you! I know a few here, but that won't do you much good. I wonder if you c…

Does anyone know how to disable the internal monitor on an iMac DV and drive the external one to something higher than 1024 x 768?

The *$#@ing stupid soldered-on graphics card doesn't allow it.

The graphics card can hardly be held responsible for its permanent position on the board - call the designers *$#@ing stupid, not the card. Cipher13

You don't think a crappy card with only 8 megs of VRAM should be called *$#@ing stupid too?

Perhaps, but the VRAM is not the reason the res is locked. I think Apple has crippled the chip, but try a software called "SwitchRes" to see if there are other settings available. …

The video card isn't the problem, IIRC, it's the monitor. The monitor only supports 1024x768. Now, if you were to remove the monitor, and replace it witha another 15" capable of …

going higher than 1024*768 on a 15" monitor that's 14.1 viewable? I use 1280*1024 on my 19" and think that's a bit too small to read comfortably.

Quote: Originally posted by Evangellydonut: going higher than 1024*768 on a 15" monitor that's 14.1 viewable? Hehe... try 13.8. 14.1 is the viewable size of the Pow…

uhm...cruising around xlr8tourmac's site I came across a blurp about Yike's G4's being the last of the clock chippables? Are there no jumpers on the Sawtooth motherboard for uppin…

I've seen instructions on how to OC Sawtooths and Mystics... really difficult though. OCing a dual-processor machine would be pretty cool, I think.

Can the single processor G-4 450s and 500s be upgraded to dual processor models? Mark

I heard on the mac show live awhile back that an upgrade manufacturer was gonna be coming out with a dual G4 upgrade. Dunno if this is truth or rumor though. -Ruddigger

I'm sure this will happen. At one time they were selling quad-processor upgrades for the older beige macs (back in the 604 era). Because the system supports multiple processors, …

The only things that are differnt between then dual G4 nd the old G4 is the gigabit eithernet chip sitting next to the processor board. I looked at my mobo, and there is actually p…

I swapped my dual's MP card into my single G4 machine it works with the Apple module. There is also the lack of the Internal firewire connector but you can solder it on the pins ar…

Check out the november issue of MacAddict, scrapbook (page 24) it seems the zif socket is gone and a new multipin socket is used. the cpu daughtercard is also screwed to the mother…

Yes, the single processor G4's can be upgraded to duals. Powerlogix, XLR8, and a couple other upgrade vendors have already announced Dual G4 upgrades. They will be available in Q…

also it looks as though this multipin connector is used in the new pismo powerbook. www.go2mac.com don't recall the exact url, soz

Quote: "Yes, the single processor G4's can be upgraded to duals. Powerlogix, XLR8, and a couple other upgrade vendors have already announced Dual G4 upgrades. They will be …

Okay, Trout, you were partly right in that they are targetting PCI Macs and ZIF-based Macs first, but the press release from Powerlogix states "Future PowerForce Dual models will s…

You got be kidding, the announcement was made at MWSF january 5th 2000. Last sentence of the pressrelease: Orders are being accepted for shipment in February at a suggested retai…