Well, one of the other polls he had was certainly beyond borderline status too. :-/

TBH, I'm pretty sure that person was trolling. :O Click to expand... If that was a troll, then I'm oblivious. It seemed like a reasonable thread to me. What's the point in …

TBH, I'm pretty sure that person was trolling. :O

What happened to the cheese thread in the Lounge? I was interested to learn if any members from Canada had tried a cheese I mentioned (Le Migneron de Charlevoix), and was about to…

Maintenance? HDD: file defragmentation/file-directory repair/archiving files (to maintain less than 85% fullth [a technical term]). Break-and-make of all connector-socket junctio…

Ram yes, changing it out did not work, one of the first things I did. Was using 4x 128mb dimms, interleaved. Battery is full 3.6v. El Nino? lol

Will the thing boot from an external USB DVD drive?

You need to set the new DVD drive as "slave", which basically involves bridging a pin on the DVD drive's data/power connector to force this. It is currently set to cable select wh…

I had a friend who had the same system and a similar problem - namely that no matter what version of OS 9.2x he tried from various torrents, it wouldn't boot up off the CD. After…

And if this wasn't about PowerPCs, I'd mention the holy grail of clones - the Radius SkyLab :O

Id go for a PowerWave Stargate with Nubus/PCI. } just because nubus is teh win

Battery? El Nino?

i have tried everything Click to expand... Not only that, but it seems to be stopping your shift key working most of the time.

Have you tried different RAM?

Hello again. I am still searching for a reason as to why my Kansas 9600 logicboard bit the dust a few months ago. I ran this machine since new, almost 12 years(or more) of service …

You need to set the new DVD drive as "slave", which basically involves bridging a pin on the DVD drive's data/power connector to force this. It is currently set to cable select wh…

i have tried everything, but it just dosn't boot, and the old cd drive is destroyed so i can't install the system, anyone knows why this happens? just an incompatible drive?, the f…

Nice conquest! FWB Hard Disk Toolkit is one of the better third-party hard drive formatters out there. It formats really quickly and can make multiple bootable partitions (unlike …

Quite a good program that one - I have version 3.5. Definitely a must-have for anyone with an older Mac and non-Apple HDDs. Good score.

I've got a few copies from my apple technician days in the 90's. It's nothing special, but it works when nothing else will. Just be sure to read up on any bugs in the release you h…

I had a friend who had the same system and a similar problem - namely that no matter what version of OS 9.2x he tried from various torrents, it wouldn't boot up off the CD. After…

It'll run fine, but I think OS 9.x might throw a fit. Depending on what the firmware extension does for the Sonnet card (i.e., give details about card info, serial number, crucial…

All I can say is that it works very well - I have version 4.5 and it does the job.

After hearing about it for years I finally bought a copy of Hard Disk Toolkit. It's version 2.0 and the manual is a hulking beast of a book. I've used just about every other hard d…

In case you frequently deal with stacks of floppy disks, consider to copy them onto a harddisk drive. A System 7.1 installation runs great from a harddisk, as long the contents of …