Actually, there is nothing on the hard drive. It is totally blank, a clean slate. I did it that way so I could install a fresh copy of 9 with all the drivers on the machine. Shoul…

What happens if you disconnect the power to the CD drive, and just boot with the hard drive?

nope, that did not do anything. I hunted and pecked for the original module, popped that in, removed the other modules, and booted. Still nothing. It also can not be power, becaus…

Some RAM will clock down to lower speeds, but I have seen some that don't. Has something to do with the CAS latency or something techie like that.. :lol:

aha, I did not check the RAM. I think I put PC100 in it. I thought it automatically would work at PC66. I will pull out everything but the stock stick and try again. If it were bad…

What kind of RAM did you use? The system bus in the G3AIO is 66 mhz. Did you use PC133? It might not be compatible, or maybe one of the DIMMs isn't seated properly, or maybe jus…

yeah, I have one of these beasts. I upgraded the RAM heavily, and put in a large 20gb HD. For the longest time it was booting with no video, but something told me to give it anothe…

Ooooooooo..... That implies you could do the same job on a 2300 - if you can find the clock jumpers

Does anybody know how to set the processor clock on one of these? I have enough spare parts that I'd like to try upgrading the processor to a faster chip, like a 180 or 200MHz mode…

Well you're not going to believe this, but it seems to have come back to life again. I just sat down with it and tried various arrangements of CPU, motherboard and RAM. Eventually …

Yeah...the thing is, the other motherboard doesn't even chime. The motherboard thats in it now chimes, and comes up with an image, like I said, it just doesn't boot. (either it han…

Wait.... You tried switching RAM, CPU, and motherboard, running on an external monitor, yet it still fails? That strikes me as it MUST be something in the power supply. The only…

Sadly the tray loader pre-dates any sort of Apple Hardware Test CDs...IIRC they came in with the Summer 2000 imacs. I've noticed that in the months before it died, its been tak…

Have you run it through an apple diagnostics disk to have it check everything? I know it sounds weird, but a looping ASD has found many a tricky thing for myself. Also, even with …

Well last week I powered up my iMac to discover it had gone deadskies. It'd boot to the Apple logo (Jag 10.2. 8) , and then freeze, and display static. (like a bad digital TV pi…

I've just ordered a Panasonic UJ-841 DVD-RW for the Lombard. $AU55 inc shipping from the UK and with warranty

The original iBooks (and the later ones, to a lesser degree) were quite difficult to extract the hard drive from and leave the machine looking as it did before it went into surgery…

Update: Just did the RAM/HD swap in the iBook and installed OS 9 no problem. And then discovered all my OS X CDs are pooched. Ordering some new ones. Note to Apple: getting to …

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The other BW G3 and my original BW G3 are now gone. The G4 450 Dual and G3 450 work great. It feels good to give back to Freecycle. I showed the person who picked up one of them…

well, i am happy to report (and unhappy about doing that) I have replaced the Combo drive with a straight DVD Drive. I got enough machines I can burn CDs with, and all I really ne…

Well done! Low End Mac is currently building up people's success stories about Leopard installations on unsupported machines and are looking for folk to report on their finding…

it's running leopard It runs pretty smoothly. I am surprised how well it runs actually. It's nice having two machines that run leopard I now have a desktop mac and a lapt…

Be aware that the eMacs were around during the time of the capacitor plague, so that might be something you want to check into. If you're handy with a soldering iron, it shouldn't…

Yeah, I know about that. While I was in, i checked for ANY signs of that stuff. I gave it a thorough check out. Checked connections, components/etc... Right now, the only probl…