It does sound like a bad CPU or bad RAM, unfortunately. If you have spare DDR anywhere, I would try that first. The heat-related symptoms does lead me to suspect that it's probably…

Hiya all, some of you might of notice I recently acquired a very, very cheap PPC G5 2Ghz (DP), sub $150 system). Now as far as I'm aware this model doesn't have liquid cooled CPU'…

And the competition for best thrift score ever hots up. Congratulations. Click to expand... You conjugated that verb incorrectly. Fail. Click to expand... I guess he mean…

Silly question, but did you try replacing the PRAM battery? Click to expand... Yep. I actually took out the PCI cards and it works fine...

Silly question, but did you try replacing the PRAM battery?

It is a Mac edition card. I have a Sawtooth G4 with the same card that runs Leopard as my server. Hopefully this will be come my OS9 gaming machine (if I can find a cheap LCD).

i will have pictures in a few days, it probably won't be powered on though

That or it's an Australian thing. Cool conquest anyways - plan on taking any pictures?

And the competition for best thrift score ever hots up. Congratulations. Click to expand... You conjugated that verb incorrectly. Fail.

This pic gives a good sense of the mess the machine was in. It's still hard to believe it came up so well with just a clean.

And the competition for best thrift score ever hots up. Congratulations.

yeah, it came w/ the straw... thats how i knew what it was (well, that and the command key)

what straw? it came only with the laptop and power cord Click to expand... This: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Pr…

* thinks of the list of Procrastinations-in-Progress™ . . . :I * * leaves quietly * Click to expand... * EEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [:I] ]'> * * leaves quiet…

i have already seen those websites, but thanks anyway. i really need to figure out how to turn it on, i cannot find that online.

Try here and here for some info. It looks quite cool! :O

what straw? it came only with the laptop and power cord

Does it have the straw?

i got an outbound notebook at a nearby thrift-shop :beige: , i think it came w/ its power cord, but the power supply does not have the kangaroo on it. i cannot figure out how to…

Just for fun, I dug up this from the deeper dungeons of Applefritter: Re: Duo Hack To Come.. What to do...« Reply #3 on: Feb 24th, 2003, 8:02pm » Please, someone, ple…

I would like to see a picture of your workshop, Bunsen. And a list of all projects, status, and success/neutral/failure rating Click to expand... I'd like to see my workbench.…

I would think a G4 tower with AGP would be a better OSX machine, leaving the B&W to be a super fast OS9 machine. A rage128 isn't that bad on a B&W in the 66mhz slot…

Thats always fun to find something like that. I would like to get a Radeon card for my smurftower, but they just aren't cheap enough yet. Just about anything is better than that …

a 7000 and the version before they came out with the 7000 numbers (think it has T&L). Click to expand... Original Radeon with no numbers later renamed 7200 in the PC wo…

I rechecked. My G4 does 480p OK, but 720p is choppy. Sorry. :I