Have you tried an OS X install with a fully functional internal optical drive? I've had the occasional glitch on my OS 9 sawtooth with firewire that otherwise runs fine under X.

I tried all three ports including the internal. In the OS 9 system profiler, it does not show any devices, just a few bits of gibberish like "g45dv, 7hd5h" for the bus and some oth…

I think that the only G4 which shared the seperate Firewire board with the yosemite was the yikes. As far as I know, all sawtooth mobo's had the firewire fully integrated.

From what I've gleaned from teh intarwebz over the past week looking for potential fixes for my dead PBG4, it seems that FireWire failure was pretty common on at least the early Po…

Did you try the internal one as well?

I've read reports of dead FW ports on xlr8yourmac.com - the fix has been to get a FW PCI card then all is well.

Has FireWire been known to give out on a G4 AGP Graphics? I hooked up my FireWire DVD drive as I always do to install the OS, but on this particular G4 it doesn't work. The drive …

Probably the best looking G3 AIO I've ever seen! (i'm sorry, but I've always found them to be profoundly ugly, even back when they were new )

Find an old Super 7/Slot 1/Slot A/Socket 370-friendly PC case and ATX power supply and you can mount a Gossamer-based board in one with little trouble. I thought about doing that,…

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The process listing should have the path to the programme running. What's it look like? Also, have you tried checking the system logs?

Another note: If the CPU upgrade is a G4, you need to update the firmware to allow G4 upgrades. Sonnet should have an update utility on their web site. At least they did when I …

Firstly, does the B&W boot with its original CPU? If so then you can narrow the problem down to Sonnet. Is the sonnet upgrade compatible with the B&W? Check thei…

I just got a blue and white g3 to replace my beige. I want to put my sonnet accelerator into the b&w, but whenever I clock the bus down, it will not boot. I would just ke…

i took a look at her activity monitor and there were three launchd processes open, but none of them were using any memory or processor time. Is there any way that i can check to s…

After reading the articles, I will be giving this computer a closer look. Could a fan be installed to take care of the heat problem? Click to expand... If you could find a way …

After reading the articles, I will be giving this computer a closer look. Could a fan be installed to take care of the heat problem?

I'm assuming it's an iMac G5 iSight model. Be aware that these (along with the previous two revision of the iMac G5) suffer from the problem covered in this repair program from Ap…

I have a chance to buy a iMac Oct 2005 2.1 ghz, 500 gb hd, 2.5gb ram, and isight cam. Under Apple Care, he has replaced everything but the motherboard. He is asking $695CDN. What …

Zoom Technologies is a guitar processor company that is owned by Samson International. Click to expand... I think its a modem or something because the logo looks more like the …

Zoom Technologies is a guitar processor company that is owned by Samson International.

Hmm, title got cut off. "on the front" is the end of it. I don't remember seeing a modem but when I get home I'll take a look.

Didn't/doesn't Zoom make modems? Maybe they did a special for Macs...If there's a third-party modem in there, that would likely be it.

Anybody have any idea what it is? It seems to have the stock CPU and RAM in it.

some of those may still be under warantee...