Start back tracking. My G3 B+W refused to start, I opened it up and there is a little reset switch on the motherboard, I pushed that and it burst into life. I disassembled the fro…

Gefen Click to expand... Griffin? with an 83MHz-rated Grackle and Rev. F ROM. So, it runs 416MHz on an 83MHz bus Click to expand... I wish I could find a beige wit…

I just caught up on this thread. I'm going to have to dig up some of my supposedly "dead" beige motherboards and try TechTool on them. Thanks for the tip Driverguru. Meanwhile: …

my 2300c /my 12" G4 PB Click to expand... beachycove, you might be able to help settle a question for me. I've thought of the keyboard from a 12" PB or iBook as a transplant f…

It was the IDE interface. What makes me 100% sure is that it connected in a different spot on the motherboard as the 270c's hard drive -- a spot that was absent in the 270c but pr…

The 1GB HD in it died Click to expand... Was that on the SCSI or the IDE header? The reason I ask is that if it was a SCSI disk, it's very likely (at that size) that it's a…

my 2300c /my 12" G4 PB Click to expand... beachycove, you might be able to help settle a question for me. I've thought of the keyboard from a 12" PB or iBook as a transplant f…

And the Seagate ST1 series (like the one I just picked up) have 2MB of onboard cache RAM. They won't do much for your battery life though - a bit better than a 2.5" disk, but not …

What about a CF Microdrive? Click to expand... They are real spinning disks and hence have different behaviour to flash memory, slower, but can be treated as a traditional hard…

What about a CF Microdrive?

You don't want to use swap file or virtual memory on flash cards on any operating system. Click to expand... Can you elaborate? Click to expand... What he means is that fla…

You don't want to use swap file or virtual memory on flash cards on any operating system. Click to expand... Can you elaborate?

I'm taking the plunge one step at a time -- Just bought a CF-IDE adapter, etc. and will see how that goes. Next step would be the battery re-cell, then the RAM. I'm not sure if I…

I wouldn't paint it unless it needs the paint, as that would basically kill it as a mint specimen. As for the CF card, a re-celled battery and more ram, it's a question of how dee…

Building up an obsolete machine is something you do for the love it rather than because you need a more powerful machine. As you stated, more powerful machines are cheaper than bui…

Right -- thanks. Very interesting piece of kit -- didn't know this was possible until running across this thread. http://cgi.ebay.com/CF-to-44-Pin-LAPTOP-IDE-Hard-Drive-Adapter-b…

For Desktop Devices Click to expand... So no. You want one for a 2.5" laptop IDE/ATA connection, which is a much smaller 44 pin connector. And I'd look for a single ended one…

I have a 2300c and the hard drive just died. http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPACT-FLASH-CF-TYPE-IDE-CF-ADAPTER-DOUBLE-EEGED_W0QQitemZ380037457893QQihZ025QQcategoryZ41994QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZ…

Ok, I just opened up the iMac (I accidentally cracked some plastic off while lifting off the bottom housing, but don't worry, the iMac still works just as it did before), and had a…

Hi, Ok, in a bit I'll open the iMac and see if there's a dead battery. (Even if it's fine, I'll probably replace it anyway.) Now, you mentioned resetting the PMU. Let me remind…

so why do you want to whatch video on a server? get a card that has core image support and you may be ok with video. Id get a geforce 5200 and flash it to mac. its teh cheapest ca…

[] ]'> Leopard has no grafics acceleration for that card. That's all. Put another compatible card in the sawtooth and you'll be more happy with it. Click to expand... …

[] ]'> Leopard has no grafics acceleration for that card. That's all. Put another compatible card in the sawtooth and you'll be more happy with it.

Thanks for the help guys, Don't really have a NEED for DV, at least on this Mac, just curious. I wanted to use leopard because of built in screen sharing as I'm running the mac h…

Man, you are totally right, paws. IGNORE ME! I guess I forgot "Yikes!". Maybe because it's an exclamation? But yeah, since my brain no workie today (I'm moving again and doing int…