Well, as of yesterday afternoon the Minitower is now a complete unit booting flawlessly into a fresh install of 8.6 with a 7.5Gb U-series I found in a slotload drive rack in the cu…

Byrd said: Nice work!  It's always a good feeling to get one cracking Mac from two junked units; the G3 Minitower is a real keeper as it's so easy and cheap to upgrade.  Do y…

Nice work!  It's always a good feeling to get one cracking Mac from two junked units; the G3 Minitower is a real keeper as it's so easy and cheap to upgrade.  Do you have a modern …

Thanks Nic, I look forward to seeing your thread in the near future... if the list in your signature is anything to go off, there are some interesting things.  The 8500 and PB145 a…

Some nice stuff! The 5500 DE is interetsing. I'll definitely make a similar topic when I get my iMac back. Cheers, Nicolas

I have to say you are definitely among the best people ive dealt with on evilbay in years mate... An absolute pleasure! I do very much look forward to seeing a stash thread in t…

Glad they're proving useful I will have to create a thread myself soon, to show off my collection. BTW, I seem to recall there is a jumper switch setting on the G3 MLB to choo…

Byrd said: Nice score on the G3s - I was watching the sale (wasn't for me but hoping someone would buy), glad they are largely complete and you can build up a super G3 from t…

Nice score on the G3s - I was watching the sale (wasn't for me but hoping someone would buy), glad they are largely complete and you can build up a super G3 from the two, hopefully…

My latest eBay conquest arrived, in the form of a pair of G3 Minitowers which I purchased for 30 bucks and got a friend in Victoria to pick up for me... his mother in law (also a n…

Yeh they are garguantuan and awkward machines the 5500... my first ever Powermac was a standard white 225 and it was at the time, a slick, fast and capable rig, and I have always h…

Yep, I had a 5500 Director's Edition, but decided to move it on because I don't have the space, plus the plastics are terrible.  Oh, and I prefer the Mac TV anyway, so I kept the T…

Just recently pulled some machines out of storage including this Powercenter 132... One of a pair I have. I just replaced the CD-ROM drive with one I seagulled out of the dead WGS,…

And here we have the IIci after a tidy up... I love everything about these machines and they are definitely among my favourite desktop cases... except for when it comes to cleaning…

Next one looking sharp after a quick spruce up is the ROM03 IIgs... In all honesty I only ever really used this once and then put it away in a dark place as it was in such good nic…

So as you probably know I intended to delve into the cave and retreive some more treasures, bats and spiders some time back but didnt know where to start... well I found the motiva…

I've neglected this thread for a bit, however that isnt to say things havent been happening. :  For one, I recently added a Sawtooth G4 to the tower of power collection... It's ve…

Hmmmm interesting.  I'm using a Crescendo 400/1M G3 CPU to preserve the stock card (and have more speed), and I actually noticed I have the Powerlogix control panel app and extensi…

I have the same issue using a 200MP dual 604 board on my 9600 get chime sound but dont get video, same problem on a 8600. The trouble seem to be the L2 cache on the 8600 removing …

CompuNurd said: I'll do that a bit later. It's put away right now. Does the Q950 have on board graphics, or could it have been part of the card I just blew? Click to expan…

Here's an update: I've actually found the culprit! (I think) There was a chip in the battery area named T548 whose function I don't know. This chip had developed a short, probably…

I decided to take a few resistance measures between the pads of the capacitors in the battery area of the logic board.  Among the top 6 capacitors, the two on the left and the two …

No but the battery area looked like yours so just to be safe it was worth it while apart to do it.

Macdrone, what was wrong with your board? Was it exhibiting similar problems?

When I did mine taking them all off and putting in 1 by 1 worked well for me. And I did that with a radio shack special 3 years ago , I'm pretty sure that makes me crazy also lol.