Um, as far as I'm aware of, CDROMs should ALWAYS have their own power-cord plugged in. Infact, at the back of your CDROM, there might even be a third cable for audio...

The best idea I have left would be to plug both drives into a PowerMac and take a look at them. This would also be a good time to transfer data across. We seem to be having a near…

Cosmo, I just installed my new HD and it went off without a hitch. I am formatting it as we speak. I am using a DiamondMax 30 GB. My question is did you remove the mobo and the…

I did remove the mobo and the daughtercard, and i was quite annoyed @ myself after doing so, because i realized that i had wasted time, and made more room for error...I'm taking it…

Rev. D with standard mobo (haven't gotten around to the rev. A/B switch yet)

Thanks for all your help...although i still couldn't fix it myself I did get it fixed though...what they did is beyond me, the guy said he "re-did everything you (I) did" He also …

don't go too willy nilly on the internet. My cable ISP recently b!tched and threatened about my upload bandwidth...after oh, only 1.5 gigs of file transfers... anyway, I'm looking…

does anyone know if/how the internal monitor of the g3 all-in-one (artemis) can be shared with an external device? specifically, i'm wondering if another computer's monitor cable c…

Very cool idea, but also very tough. It all depends upon how the monitor is connected to the personality card on the inside. What you would have to do is detach that cable, extend …

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