Dual 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 purchased new - August 2004. Still running strong 5 years later as my daily Mac. I don't anticipate needing to upgrade until the release of Mac OS 10.7 -…

3. Have you tried booting from a floppy or from a CD? Click to expand... Yes. I put both a floppy and a CD ROM in, and it didn't acknowledge either one of them. This was when i…

I don't even have a G4 yet!

Just bought a dual G5 to replace a 700MHz eMac, so obviously I'm far from the bleeding edge... I don't see myself needing to upgrade in the next 3-5 years (unless I get filthy rich…

and are you going to move to Macpro..? do you see benefits of ditching your machine in favor of a macpro (besides speed)...? How often do you buy Mac's? Jim

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…

That's an MMI drive. Click to expand... 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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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. Click to expand... The doctor is still…

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…

The requirement for 10.4 was that the machine have either AGP graphics or FireWire Click to expand... Even that may not be a hard requirement. Tiger 10.4.11 boots natively on m…

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…

The hinge lump is an anomaly on your unit.

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…

Little known fact of the 350's, they can run tiger natively. Even apple says so. Click to expand... The requirement for 10.4 was that the machine have either AGP graphics or Fi…

And the results are in: Coin = fail Heatgun = win

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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-…