Yeah these G4s and G5s are going to drop like rocks when the newbs figure out they cannot install SL on it.

Nothing too big but managed to pick up a power board for my 128k for $25 shipped. I made that bid a week ago and didn't think it would win, but I guess demand for these is slackeni…

I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been…

I got ~15 coin cell holders going to waste if anyone wants me to drop one in the post

I have used those kinds of batteries and holders on old PCs before, they work fine but all eventually leak. So I retrofitted quite a few machines to use coin type batteries (PCs) a…

I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been…

Mine reports unknown processor at 1000mhz. :lol:

I wanted to do something like that but don't know how. Would I have to solder the wires to the existing battery socket? If I could attach the wires without soldering, that would be…

I just got my G5 a few months ago. It's a single 1.8 Ghz. I got it for $125 to replace my aging G4 Digital Audio 733. The SATA card in my G4 wouldn't allow the system to sleep prop…

I don't have a G5 yet, but I hope to within the year. The main thing which kept me away from the was reliability, many more G5 PSUs, boards, and processors cooked themselves to de…

As I suspected, the G4 (Sonnet Crescendo G4 800/1M) was only running at 450MHz, but after running the Sonnet enabler scrounged from another machine it now runs at 800. Much nicer,…

I've been replacing the 1/2 AA batteries with a two AA or two AAA battery holder held on with either double sided foam tape or hard locking tape for ages, like so: { "ligh…

Where did you get the 10 pack from? I leave batteries in the units I use once in a while, but anything put into long term storage has the battery removed.

Even 720p is pushing it for a G4.

System Profiler is notorious for miscomputing CPU speeds for third-party cards. I'd run Metronome (you can download it from Sonnet) to get the card's actual speed.

Here's a link to a site still selling the replacement cases. $449 is certainly an optimistic starting price on that auction. *shrug* People are funny enough that I wouldn't bet ag…

Wow! That's a good price! Do you leave all of your systems setup and plugged in? If not, I wouldn't bother leaving a battery in them anyway. I've lost several computers to expl…

Since I needed a bunch I decided to go with a bulk purchase and managed to find 10 packs for $28 shipped. Nearly every beige Powermac and Quadra I have thinks it's 1956. 8-o

PowerLogix made some replacement G4 cube cases that came in were black, white and I believe silver.

When I put the 1ghz G4 in my 7500 it wouldn't power up at first. It's a good thing I got an instruction manual because in the manual it says when you remove the old CPU you have to…

http://cgi.ebay.com/PowerLogix-Black-G4-Cube_W0QQitemZ120539575325 WTF?

When I first tried to power it up the PS would only click and the PS fan would make a feeble attempt to run. Thought I had been screwed with a DOA, but after some head scratching …

Can you temporarily install an internal ethernet network card and see if that will establish a connection online? If it does work, chances are it could be the ethernet port on the…

Hi, me again. We have a Quicksilver G4 at my school, and I've recently set it up as a browsing machine. If I'm correct, its a 933 MHz Model with 128 MB RAM, not 100% sure on the H…

Picked up a 9600 G4/800 today, 512 MB Ram, a 4 GB SCSI drive and a 10 GB IDE drive driven off an IDE/USB/Firewire card. Radeon 7000 Video card and the usual floppy and CD drives. …