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Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #6

Sonnet lists an upgrade for the Mirrored Drive Door. The higher Buss speed will make a difference plus faster RAM AGP slot etc. Click to expand... DA, QS and MDD all have 4x AG…
68kMLA Hardware by MacJunky Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 19:49

Run Powerbook 540c from Floppy — #6

I think 10 NiMh AAA batteries (the small ones) might work, but have not tried it — this project is still to come, some dark winter's night. Ten regular AA "button" batteries will n…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 18:54

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #5

Sonnet lists an upgrade for the Mirrored Drive Door. Click to expand... Yes, but the 2nd processor can´t be used by OS 9. That´s what I read at different places. It will fit, i…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 18:28

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #4

QS2002 can use HDDs larger than 128GB on the internal PATA buses.. but that is about it as far as I know and it does not do you much good if you want SATA or SCSI RAID.
68kMLA Hardware by MacJunky Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 14:33

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #3

Sonnet lists an upgrade for the Mirrored Drive Door. Click to expand... Yes, but the 2nd processor can´t be used by OS 9. That´s what I read at different places. It will fit, i…
68kMLA Hardware by avw Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 14:12

Run Powerbook 540c from Floppy — #5

Someone can LEGALLY send you the three options, in fact, as they were freeware. Click to expand... What are the programs called? Do you really think the 10 AA batteries would …
68kMLA Hardware by agg23 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 12:45

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #2

Sonnet lists an upgrade for the Mirrored Drive Door. The higher Buss speed will make a difference plus faster RAM AGP slot etc. Wayne
68kMLA Hardware by waynestewart Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 08:03

Assembling the Fastest OS 9 Machine — #1

I´d like you to help with your great experiance to virtually assemble the fastest OS 9 machine ever. Interresting is to clear some questions regarding the most powerful possibiliti…
68kMLA Hardware by avw Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 06:54

reflashing a pc videocard — #10

Not really, because you are just gluing the very edge of the tape to the very edge of the PCB. You would not be gluing onto any of the traces or pins.
68kMLA Hardware by MacJunky Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 05:38

Run Powerbook 540c from Floppy — #4

The 5xx series PS does get good and toasty in my experience. Not sure about the ram, as I have never checked. I can't see what effect a ram disk would have on its operating tempera…
68kMLA Hardware by beachycove Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 04:30

reflashing a pc videocard — #8

its not so easy to fish out tiny slivers of scotch tape out of your agp slot Click to expand... So far swapping my 6200 around between my DA and QS many times and the tape …
68kMLA Hardware by MacJunky Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 00:01

G4 Gigabit 400, 533 dual? — #6

I meant use the User Reports database to search for examples of 533s in Gigabits so you can see if anyone's succeeded and what the hurdles involved are.
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 23:18

reflashing a pc videocard — #7

from what i under stand the reason why we have to hack in tot he video cards is because apple decided to use the then unassigned pins 3 and 11 for their adc protocol a few …
68kMLA Hardware by bluekatt Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 22:50

reflashing a pc videocard — #6

Out of curiosity, is there a chart anywhere on the power draw from Mac components since Macs never came with upgradeable power supplies? The reason I ask is that I feel I was pushi…
68kMLA Hardware by Sloar Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 22:40

reflashing a pc videocard — #5

ill probably slice the circuti trace of pin 3 and 11 away on the geforce the video card is easy to replace ( and i have 4 others ) its not so easy to fish out tiny sl…
68kMLA Hardware by bluekatt Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 22:29

reflashing a pc videocard — #4

Just tried it, the link seems to work ok , here it is, http://themacelite.wikidot.com/ . Good luck and it does make sense since the PC equivalents are so much cheaper.
68kMLA Hardware by Sloar Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 22:23

reflashing a pc videocard — #3

they were offline when i searched a few hours ago they arent any more QS meet geforce fx 5200 ..play nice
68kMLA Hardware by bluekatt Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 22:17

Run Powerbook 540c from Floppy — #3

I have made a boot disk with a minimal system and RamDisk+. I startup from the floppy and run it from the RAM disk. The only thing is the battery will not show though it did (som…
68kMLA Hardware by agg23 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 21:10

Scored a Powermac G3 All In One — #31

Recieved the Airport compatible PCI card and it works great!!! it's nice to have the wireless now... So my upgrading is done on this... it as far as it will go... but it's a very…
68kMLA Hardware by MacManiac1701A Wed, 26 Aug 2009 - 18:40
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