You were right! I unplugged the pram battery and it booted right up!! It has 256mb of ram and is 500mhz!! The harddrive I put in is 20gb with O.S.9.2. I will get a new p…

Remove the PRAM battery. It may be too dead and will cause it to not boot. Just remove the keyboard and the CD/DVD drive and you will see it on the right hand side.

Just picked up a very nice looking pismo. The first one I have had! No hardrive. Plugged it in. Nothing. Checked and reset the ram, added a hardrive. Checked all the cables unde…

I don't think "HD 1080" and "G4" can be said in the same sentence; you basically need an Intel Mac to do this sort of stuff. Still, it makes for a wonderful server/general use mac…

IIRC, there was something funky about the video signal and PRAM batteries on the pizzaboxen. Search posts by Danamania and whatever other teems might be necessary to find the answe…

I used to use an AlphaSmart 3000 (translucent case, released around the same time as the iMac) in elementary and middle school, because of my poor ability to write. They are pretty…

Well the adapter worked before... Click to expand... Try multiple VGA monitors.

The original beige model; got it for free! It doesn't work ATM though.

They can handle HD right? If so then that could be a set top box. Put 3 500GB drives and you're set. :beige:

I think the OP left the forum.

Well the adapter worked before...

Once again mars478, you've failed to have patience. All you had to do was let that machine sit for 1-2 weeks to completely dry out and adjust to room temperature. In trying to test…

That shouldn't be a problem. I've got a box here with darn near 100 sticks of 72-pin RAM. Should the OP need some, I am more than sure could dig him up a pair of matched 32MB or ma…

I was just trying to offer some advice for him as I felt that the drying time was not long enough. That and I was just trying to flesh out what the poster above me was saying, is …

Those are great machines. I bet OS 9 at 1.58GHz flies! A dual CPU upgrade would make OS X feel like butter on that machine. If you have cash, I wonder if you could get a SATA car…

I have this one, and it works fine: http://cgi.ebay.com/Viewsonic-VMA-1-Macintosh-Video-Adapter-MAC-VGA_W0QQitemZ190315600579QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c4fb19…

Well my problem must be different, because I left it on for about half an hour and nothing happened. I think it might be the power supply, because the hard drive starts to spin, th…

Hey, I've spent a little time tinkering with the MDD some more. By all accounts it's the fastest Mac I've owned - much faster in general use compared to my G4 Cube (with a Gigade…

Well my problem must be different, because I left it on for about half an hour and nothing happened. I think it might be the power supply, because the hard drive starts to spin, th…

I figured out the problem: it sometimes takes the onboard video a minute ot two (literaly) to initilize on my LC III

JackHammer. Click to expand... Hmm... are those cards bootable? I heard that they weren't, but I'm probably wrong. and @ Bunsen: WOW-I'd kill for one of those. Too bad they're…

Possible monitor modes maybe (a) working and displaying ( B) stand-by © has signal but cannot use it due to incompatible frequencies (d) no input detected at all (e) off

Hahaha :beige: Now I'm thinking it might be a power supply issue. I have a Power Mac 8500 that also won't display video, but with the Power Mac the monitors light blinks orange…

I moved the computer to another room, and when I tried again, there was no picture at all. Click to expand... Did you remember to also move the screen? What "switches…

I'm having similar problem with my LC III. When I first used it with my Mac ~ VGA adapter, the picture was fine (although it didn't boot up because there was no operating system in…