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Pondering a 700mhz Headless eMac Conversion — #3

For the slimline case: Pros: *Custom goodness for you to have your way with. *Small form *Easily transportable *Not super heavy *Cooler running Cons: *No more integral disp…
68kMLA Hardware by Franklinstein Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 20:46

Pondering a 700mhz Headless eMac Conversion — #2

Hack it into a slimline case. The CRT is dodgy and you've already damaged the Airport slot, so use it as an opportunity to build something different. And treat it as a learning exe…
68kMLA Hardware by Charlieman Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 20:38

Pondering a 700mhz Headless eMac Conversion — #1

If anyone can recall one of my recent liberations, 2x 700mhz eMac G4's, you will also remember that one of them runs beautifully. The other one does not. The display has a flicker …
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 19:26

Emac salvage? — #4

1.42ghz eMacs? Not a bad spec at all, my friend. 133mhz frontside bus with DDR memory and a 1.42ghz G4 is by no means a slouch of a system. The eMac that does boot could just need…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 19:09

Emac salvage? — #3

I was playing around with the Emac that did boot and the video came on. It boots to the loading screen and stays there. The apple screen with the spinning pinwheel. Left it runn…
68kMLA Hardware by 30pin Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 16:02

Emac salvage? — #2

See if you can get one working unit. From there see if the problems are related to one specific component. The G3 iMacs commonly bad flyback transformers which would allow the comp…
68kMLA Hardware by mac-man6 Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 10:26

dead PowerBook G4 500 — #2

Reseat your RAM. My iBook wouldn't boot because its ram stick somehow came loose. Usually when RAM is in halfway it will blink the sleep light.
68kMLA Hardware by Christopher Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 04:41

Emac salvage? — #1

I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's. . THey are c…
68kMLA Hardware by 30pin Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 04:05

Replacing Lamp in a Pismo Tonight — #7

This link sources a few different places you can get it. Also for a few different Apple laptops. I went with Digikey. http://www.jkllamps.com/laptop.cfm VERY inexpensive and th…
68kMLA Hardware by Dennis Nedry Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 03:11

dead PowerBook G4 500 — #1

So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot sequence and never ca…
68kMLA Hardware by Franklinstein Fri, 3 Oct 2008 - 02:31

iBook battery reset => Back alive? — #5

That battery reset actually is written for the clamshell as well. But thats the only iBook compatible. Click to expand... I have no idea what you're saying. The OP was talking …
68kMLA Hardware by tomlee59 Thu, 2 Oct 2008 - 20:37

Should I do it? — #3

My thoughts exactly. I had Leopard on my dual 450 G4 with 1.12GB of ram and the Radeon 7000, it was alright, but it gets annoying after a while. Leopard seems to chew on hard drive…
68kMLA Hardware by Christopher Thu, 2 Oct 2008 - 01:38

Should I do it? — #2

Tried it on a G4 450 with PCI Radeon Mac Edition + 1GB RAM. It ran like an absolute dog compared to 10.4. It's not especially fast on my 1.33 Ghz G4 and that's way above the spec…
68kMLA Hardware by Rodus Thu, 2 Oct 2008 - 00:34

iBook battery reset => Back alive? — #3

AFAIK, there is no reset app on the clamshell -- the one that I'm familiar with works with the earlier G3 powerbooks. On the clamshell, only an extension gets installed, and it's …
68kMLA Hardware by tomlee59 Wed, 1 Oct 2008 - 23:58

Should I do it? — #1

I have been considering Leopard on my 800mhz TiBook and my wife's dual 500 G4. The dual 500 has a PCI 32mb radeon 7000 in it and 1.25 gigs of ram. The TiBook has 768mb of ram, thou…
68kMLA Hardware by stevebez Wed, 1 Oct 2008 - 23:16

iBook battery reset => Back alive? — #2

Folks, I have the same problem as Didius, but different. Couple of months ago, I rescued a 'dead' iBook (G3/300) at an AUSOM meeting, I was told by the person that gave it to me,…
68kMLA Hardware by AusNick Wed, 1 Oct 2008 - 07:57

Replacing Lamp in a Pismo Tonight — #5

It was a very good deal. My Pismo is so much brighter now! It also was becoming a bit pink in the left corner which was a sign that it maybe wouldn't have lasted a whole lot long…
68kMLA Hardware by Dennis Nedry Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - 22:13

Replacing Lamp in a Pismo Tonight — #4

Well done -- congratulations! As you noted, it's not so much hard as it is tedious, with lots of little steps along the way. But it's well worth doing, given that a $10 tube can re…
68kMLA Hardware by tomlee59 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - 21:18

Replacing Lamp in a Pismo Tonight — #3

SUCCESS! It was a tricky thing to do, but everything worked fine. I agree that you should work slowly and carefully. I managed to not break either bulb (old & new). The…
68kMLA Hardware by Dennis Nedry Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - 16:15

Pismo 'Refurbishing' — #9

If you have trouble starting it up in the future, try the reset button on the back. I've had to prod that a couple of times to get my Lombard to wake up.
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - 16:01
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