however, i'm all intrigued now, so i'll give it a whirl as soon is i finish moving house from germany to england. i'll keep y'all posted. b.

It might be more practical to see if any of these combined DVD-Rom, CD-RW drives are available with Mac drivers yet, and just replace the DVD drive.

it might be more practical for you, but as i already have separate dvd + cdrw drives, and a low budget, this is much simpler. b.

Well,I've decided that as soon as my warranty has expired (not long now), I'll get out the old hacksaw, scrape off the inch of rust, and see if I can get that 8424 in where the zip…

You won't need a power supply. Once you get the CDRW out of its case, there's a standard power connector on the back. There should also be a power cord at that bay for the internal…

well, i did it. took about 15 minutes - the hardest part was sawing off the lip on the lower edge. been running stable for a few days now - dvd's play fine + cd's burn. just ne…

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ooooh....ahhhhh... snazzy, eh?

I'm modifying parts of an AIO G3 for an automotive application, and when I first opened the system I found that it has a special personality card with a connector that has signals…

Does anyone knows the way how and what to change on this board taken out from PM 9600/300 to use it in other computers, like PM 7600?

Most likely, you can just plug it into the cpu slot on the 7600. When I upgraded a few 7300's here, I plugged the 604e card into an old 7500 we use here as a secondary file server…

No, the processor card structure is different. It has cache on processor card. Processor doesn't work if i put it directly into 7500 or 7600.

Quote: Originally posted by Tikas: No, the processor card structure is different. It has cache on processor card. Processor doesn't work if i put it directly into 7500 o…

Everything I have read indicates that the 604e 300 mHz processor pulled out of a 9600/300, can ONLY be used in other Macs that have the Kansas motherboard. Those are the 8600/250,…

I know that this processor card originally works only with PM 8600/9600. There is article in Apple TIL saying that. So if someone knows how physically modificate this card to make …

Quote: Originally posted by Macfan2: Everything I have read indicates that the 604e 300 mHz processor pulled out of a 9600/300, can ONLY be used in other Macs that have …

Quote: Originally posted by Tikas: No, the processor card structure is different. It has cache on processor card. Processor doesn't work if i put it directly into 7500 o…

8600/9600 has different motherboards than 8500/9500, different part numbers and structure. I'm asking anyone who knows these thing can we make physical changes on processor card or…

I was just wondering what the fastest speed those of you who have oc'd your machines were able to achieve. Personally, on my B&W G3 350, I was able to get the machine to boot …

That's very peculiar. I bought a 350mhz blue G3 with the IBM copper G3 and was only able to overclock it to 400mhz. 450mhz wouldn't boot at all, but I never thought to try 500mhz..…

I have a beige g3/266 and I can only clock it up to 315mhz, unstable, 300mhz is where I am now. A friend has the same proc but could boot at 366mhz, I feel mad, that I got a more i…

266 OC'd to 315...stable ------------------ -See Yea!

My b&w G3 350 is now at 400. I'll be speeding it up soon though. I wonder if you get a higher quality chip and motherboard if you buy from Apple or if you buy lots of options?…

PM8500 with XLR8 ZIF and OEM 400 ZIF OC'd to 454 and stable for 6 months. A co-worker bumped his Athlon from 500 to 700, but I've never heard of a Mac making that big of a jump... …

B&W g3 300 o'cd to 700 something. Stable for 4 months. Beat a g4 on photoshop and Soundjam. it has a cooling fan. I just ordered that liquid hydrogen cooling thing. 1400 bucks.…