I can't get this machine to install the Mac OS with the 575 motherboard. The original motherboard that came with the Color Classic is missing ram and gives me out of memory messag…

Seconded. I use a PowerMac 8500 all the time and its PRAM battery is dead, so I have to set the date each time I power it up (I turn off the outlet strip to it at night). Recently …

I would have thought that it should work straightforwardly under 7.6.1; the ppc upgrade cards reportedly required only 7.5.2 (buggy) or above. There was a NuPower extension that we…

Hello All, I've obtained a Nupower 117MHz Upgrade for my PowerBook 540c but do not have the software to install it! Can anyone help me? W@hat do I need exactly to run System 7.6.1…

There's quite a few people over at cubeowner.com who have installed dual 1GHz CPUs and up. Course, for any CPU upgrade a fan is recommended.

The Elina is actually the quietest of the three fans I have seen in the SE series as stock fans. Click to expand... Indeed. The Elina is the most quiet of the "stock fans." B…

On the topic of the Elina fans, I'm curious...were the ones used in the compact Macs any different to the ones used on the LCs? I've never used a compact with an Elina before (the …

The Elina is actually the quietest of the three fans I have seen in the SE series as stock fans. The rat cage fan, of course, was the worst. However, not all SEs and SE/30s had Eli…

Did it have two slots where you insert bread (dual 1.5ghz processors make for an expensive toaster)?

Well, that got my attention. Can a dual G54/500MHz processor go in a Cube without serious surgery? Click to expand... Not sure, but there was a cube on ebay recently with dual …

"Reasonable nick" = reasonable condition for a three year old machine. That stick of PC-2700 arrived in the post today and the RAM transplant was done. Having the 1.25GB of RAM in…

As much as I know you love to brag about your Hyperdrive Click to expand... Subconsciously, you probably have me spot on. But consciously I merely linked to that particular ph…

This Hyperdrive fan photo shows how GCC mounted a cooling fan in one of the diagonal vents at the top-back of the Mac case (inside, of course). Click to expand... As much as I …

I ended up using some C clamps to clamp down my dremel, then I used a stack of paper to adjust the height of my bezel. I ran it along a metal straightedge and rabbeted the edge. …

This Hyperdrive fan photo shows how GCC mounted a cooling fan in one of the diagonal vents at the top-back of the Mac case (inside, of course). It pulls air up from the vents in t…

the lombard is just a pile of parts- motherboard,64mb ram, 333mhz, keyboard missing one key, smashed lcd, no battery/cd drive, and it is all in pieces, but does work (boots to ? fo…

Also - Are there any good repair services people can recommend for a 3400, other than Wegener Media?

Also picked up a Yamaha external Firewire CD burner for $20 from an op shop. Because a FW-ATAPI bridge is always a handy thing to have

that is another one of my concerns. is there any way to install a fan on the psu? if so where? i know the side gets hot after the machine has been running for a while, but is there…

After hours of use, the 68000 CPU in vintage Macs will remain cool to the touch. Indeed, if you feel any heat at all it is heat coming from the hot air inside the Mac case. These…

the parts lombard is only missing the hard drive/cable/caddy, and has a smashed lcd screen. the clamshell ibook is the original teal/ blueberry model, and it is missing the cd dri…

I may of lost the bookmark, but I found a french fourm for getting an emac running with an atx psu that could be adjusted to the g4 psu (just follow the pinout carefully) it also h…

When you pulled the plug to shut it off, you probably just corrupted the Power Management Unit. It is a small computer within the Power Mac 7500 that controls power flow throughou…

exactly. nothing happens.

yes, i have to use the control panel to dim the screen. it's a Macintosh Classic I. yes, it has a fan, but it doesn't come in contact with the processor itself. instead, it's place…