Hi guys, As some of you will already know, I'm currently having fun restoring a thrift-store-salvaged Beige G3 Tower - I've successfully upgraded the RAM, created an Admin account…

Well, really, I suppose the question should be this. "Is Powerbook Guy's price of $99USD a ripoff?"

The discs you are using, are they CD-Rs? Or is it a DVD-R? The early iMacs and iBooks have issues with burned discs. It seems they were an early implementation of a new laser, …

Oops, just seeing I posted in the wrong forum. Sorry about that! May some moderator move the topic?

www.buy.com has the wang model of 6200, that is where i bought mine from buy.com xfx 6200 wang that is where i bought mine from. as heavymetal4god said it could be bad nvram set…

Would be nice to run OS/X - sadly 64mb of ram won't be a pleasant experience :'( or maybe it won't install. Got it running with the 40GB drive - its running very nicely on OS …

I'm in the same boat with mine, but I don't have an optical drive to boot from, or the Firewire model.

Your talking about if he wanted to install OS X. OS 9 or 8 don't have the 8GB partition limitation.

Oops! The disk image for King's Quest disk 1 came back with errors & ADTPRO labels the disk as being "I/O Errors." I have a utility that will try to get bad blocks out on m…

Hi all! I have a dead blue Clamshell iBook lying around that I'd like to rescue. When turned on, it chimes, and shows the question mark. Nothing wrong until now: it won't boot fro…

On the tray loaders the two limitations are that the OS has to be on the first partition which is 8gb or less, the second is the mac can't recognize the full capacity of a HD if it…

You might want to check the jumpers - I find that with my iMac, the HDD must be set to Master or Single drive, otherwise I can't boot from the drive.

It should boot ok as blixanz says, the OS needs to be on the first partition of the drive which must be under 8GB or your system will become very ubnstable. Try installing the dri…

That is only the case when installing OS X. It should boot. Are you booting from a install CD?

Have one of my tray-load iMacs going now and have put a 40GB drive in to replace its' old 4GB. Drive has not been partitioned. Can't exactly boot into Mac OS :-/ - just hangs a…

My G4's have been wonky like that before. Just leave everything unplugged from the machine without battery for a couple days. Then try again.

I know what you mean about grasping at straws.... I've tried a few already.. pram, nvram, cleaned everything using Onyx. I hope its not a duff card as these are hard to find....…

It should work fine. Did the G4 start reliably before you put in the 6200? Also, apparently this card shouldn't be taped so make sure there is no tape on the gold connectors. It…

Hey folks, if I can bring up this topic again... I have a G4 450 "Sawtooth" I have flashed a 6200 wang video card and it will not always boot. Some times the system boots with …

How long is a piece of string? As with any saleable item that can be imagined, your card is worth only as much as someone else is willing to pay for it. You may be able to glean…

How much is a 128MB stick worth? I have one in a broken machine and it might need to be sold if I can't get a replacement machine to use. Thanks.

^^ Rev 1 or 2 The best way to make sure you're getting a Rev. 2 motherboard is the "402" marking on the CMD646 IDE controller chip Click to expand... Franklinstein's rig…

how do i check what revision this is?

Do you have one of the Rev. 1 B&W? Those are reported to have many problems, though most pertain to the UDMA implementation on the primary IDE channel. My Rev. 1 B&…

With my Beige or B&W before installing CPU Director, they ran at a default speed of about 500mhz (I'm not at home so I can't check the exact number) no matter what the jump…