I have a iBook G3 Clamshell Special Edition ( 466 MHz with Fireware port and DVD drive), running OS X 10.3.9. Is there a way to check which version of firmware I have on it? Accor…

Well, NetBSD would be great with a huge-huge-huge caveat, at least for me. You need to have a real pci video card, ATi or NVidia. The on-board video is insufficient, as well as the…

ok i did what you said about adding h fans behind the processor just finished hahahah took a long time and now the mdd's door doesnt shut right! i have to kinda slam it to get it s…

Hmmm. I have iStat running on both the DP MDD (1.42) and the Intel iMac. The MDD shows a CPU temp of 73125f (no decimal point); there's either a problem with the installation or …

Oops I meant 60 degrees Celsius. You're running at 51.6 degrees Celsius. You're fine.

Well, NetBSD would be great with a huge-huge-huge caveat, at least for me. You need to have a real pci video card, ATi or NVidia. The on-board video is insufficient, as well as the…

mine has been running for about 8 hours and it is at 125F according to istats menu is that a ok temp? and i do not use a adc monitor i use a 22 inch dvi display by acer

The power supply won't have issues unless you have an ADC display. The trickle power for the power button on it heats up the power supply but if the unit is off, the fans don't spi…

I recently bought a powermac G4 mdd and i am trying to make it run cooler the specs are 10.5.8 leopard dual 1GHZ 1.75GB ram Dual Super drives HDS 250gb 120gb 10gb NVIDIA …

I found a 3300pf, 2kv capacitor at a component shop near my house. I soldered it on and it looks great. Only 1/4" black border now. Here's a screen shot, and I'll upload a pictu…

well most of my movies are just burned dvd's so it wont not need the decoder, and i think its on the dvd drive, if im not mistaken, I have herd of put squares of a disk under the …

I had a lot of difficulty trying to install NetBSD on my 7300 with OF 1.0.5. I'd get it to boot the kernel and then the machine would reboot. It would do it so fast I couldn't see …

I love red PCB's. Click to expand... I love 'em too! I've got a beautiful red Half-Length Radius NuBus VidCard in my MinimalistDuo230/PB100TestbedDock™.

EvilTim's other projects. Click to expand... IIRC he also converted a monochrome CRT to greyscale by feeding the intensity level into where the brightness knob used to be. Cli…

I don't plan to get rid of it anytime soon

They're hard to get rid of anyways.... I've never named any of my computers and I've still got 26 of them laying around here.

Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu,also how hard is it to open the…

Just a little tidbit I thought I'd add; be careful naming your machines. Its kind of like naming a pet, in that once you name it you love the thing to pieces and its much harder to…

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like other Macs or Mac clones couldn't accomplish this feat; As ClassicHasClass mentioned, you can indeed bootstrap OF from a floppy, But I pr…

Ok, does any one know about this "black screen" problem? or could it just be the sofware? I do know on the g4 Ibooks this problem was dew to the gpu, also how hard is it to open t…

The innards of that MacPro are gorgeous! I love red PCB's.

If you want newer versions of software (like Safari 4) then you'll need to run 10.4 on it. I don't know about the 466MHz models (they may actually be just fine) Click to expand…

Hi! I have 64 MB(3x?) ram sticks for PM 8500 and processor upgrades 604-233 MHz and G4-400MHz

You'll need at least 32MB RAM for OS 9 to even start (even then it hugs virtual memory). Stalling at the same place every time at boot up = (in my experience) a dodgy CD or optica…

I have no idea. It originally shipped with *shudders* 16 MB of RAM, but I don't know if the previous owner upgraded it or not. I'd really prefer to run System 7 or OS 8 if possible…