Power Mac 9500 startup woes — #6
A handful of observations:
1. A 9500 is now old enough to have capacitor failure. Sorry, but it's just possible.
2. I acquired an 8600/300 a few years ago that exhibited the same…
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ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #16
That's an MMI drive.
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Could you provide a source for your info, or a link to a photo of an official "MMi" drive? I ask this because someone from GCC told me …
What do you guys think? — #11
Wow, $40 is a bargain, really.
I guess it's different over here (they never sold outside the US) but I paid a lot more than that for my system. Although it was more complete and i…
Power Mac 9500 startup woes — #5
It already had enough good RAM chips in it, since I was able to boot it to OS 7.6 a few months ago. I assume that the CUDA reset is that small button on the motherboard? I pressed …
Power Mac 9500 startup woes — #4
It probably wasn't a great idea but I don't think it would have done any permanent damage. Have you tried putting in one good (compatible) RAM chip and resetting PRAM and perhaps C…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #15
Yep! That's an MMI drive. You are lucky you got one that was made just right. A lot of them had trouble with excess lubricant on the disk surface spinning to the outside edge where…
Power Mac 9500 startup woes — #3
I just gave up and got out the 8100/80 instead, thinking that I'd post here the next day (which I've done).
Maybe someone else has a clue. I wonder if putting in the mis-matched R…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #14
JDW, is your Hyperdrive in running condition? If your Hyperdrive has an MMI or Miniscribe drive, it would be a miracle if it still spins.
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The doctor is still…
Power Mac 9500 startup woes — #2
What a coincidence - I just put back together my 9500 yesterday, and got it up and running today.
I can tell you from experience that the 9500 is a real B**** when it comes to cra…
Rev A iMac G3 — #15
The requirement for 10.4 was that the machine have either AGP graphics or FireWire
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Even that may not be a hard requirement. Tiger 10.4.11 boots natively on m…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #13
JDW, is your Hyperdrive in running condition? If your Hyperdrive has an MMI or Miniscribe drive, it would be a miracle if it still spins. NEC 20 MB drives are the best bets of…
Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #9
The hinge lump is an anomaly on your unit.
Power Mac 9500 startup woes — #1
I got out the ole' Power Mac 9500 last evening and tried to start it up. No luck. Though the hard drive in it is fine and has OS 7.6 on it, it did not work. I got to the gray scree…
Rev A iMac G3 — #14
Little known fact of the 350's, they can run tiger natively. Even apple says so.
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The requirement for 10.4 was that the machine have either AGP graphics or Fi…
Got 2 living-dead G3 iBooks — #16
And the results are in:
Coin = fail
Heatgun = win
Making Radius Video Card Main Video OutPut. — #3
Well, there is a lil radius icon at the bottom when its loading. But right now I can't see anything as the internal video on my IIci does not want to cooperate with my Display and …
Got 2 living-dead G3 iBooks — #15
I re-tried the same procedure last night, but this time without the tinfoil on the GPU. After I'd left it a little while to cool down, I booted it up and the screen lit up straight…
Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #8
Visible on the logic board beneath the modem is what appears to be an unused set of solder pads for a SODIMM socket for VRAM expansion. Too bad Apple left it out, or we could rock …
Overclocked MolarMac problem — #6
Apple's late-model CRT-based systems seem to have numerous problems like this. I've got an original iMac with a failing flyback, and one of the original B&W G3 companion di…
17" Fan Weirdness — #5
The thermal paste in the AlBooks is reminiscent of concrete sludge: it's thick and gray and kind of grainy. If you start having problems (crashes, etc) with your machine, you might…
Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #7
Wallstreets:
Available fixed-resolution 12" STN, 13.3" TFT, and 14.1" TFT displays. I've read that 12.1" TFT was a later option, but haven't seen it confirmed anywhere.
Very low-…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #12
That's a "Macintosh" sticker on the face of that Mac in the EBAY auction. You can see how the right side of it is reflecting in the sun. The real question at this point is, WHY p…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #11
I second H3NRY's thoughts...that sticker definitely looks like it says, "Macintosh" for me, and looks exactly the same as said sticker on the back of my M0001.
Rev A iMac G3 — #13
Little known fact of the 350's, they can run tiger natively. Even apple says so.
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It's just rather difficult to install, because there's no DVD drive or Fire…
Rev A iMac G3 — #12
Little known fact of the 350's, they can run tiger natively. Even apple says so.
Click to expand...
It's just rather difficult to install, because there's no DVD drive or Fire…