I'm fairly sure the guts of the 575 and 550 (apart from the logic board of course) are pretty much identical. The displays are the same (which is the most important factor), so it …

I've used a steel ruler to slide into a slot and then firmly push it up to slide up the tab, you need to remove the battery to take the top and bottom half of the casing apart. Ho…

You can find the drivers here on Newertech's legacy support software page: http://www.newertech.com/tech_support/support_legacy.php ... download NuPowr Cache 1.2 and NuPowr Syste…

NVM I got an 550 board Now will a 575 board work in a 550? Also does the 575 and 550 use the same type of ram?

Know anyone selling an LC 550 board?

You have done one of the following, I trust: 1. Video hack to allow CC video operation in 640x480, which the replacement logic board demands (which I do not recommend as it effect…

IIRC, for 8.1 you need to install the OS as a "fat binary" system containing both 68k and PPC code. I think you do this by selecting to install "For any Mac"

Going to try System Enabler 065 version 1.0 tomorrow with enabler 403. Hopefully that will work.

Added System Enabler 403 to the System Folder, still nothing when trying to boot off the 7.6.1 CD with 575 board. Got Sad mac face at boot, when I tried to boot off the 8.1 CD . T…

That didn't work either.

I think I'm going to give System Enabler 1.1 a shot and replace the 1.0 enabler with that on the hard drive. Then boot off the 7.6.1 CD with the 575 board installed. I'll give you…

Update: Put barebones System Folder I extracted from 7.6.1 CD-ROM which I then put on a boot disk CD-ROM, booted from disk, copied System Folder to HardDisk with the System Enabler…

I can't get this machine to install the Mac OS with the 575 motherboard. The original motherboard that came with the Color Classic is missing ram and gives me out of memory messag…

Seconded. I use a PowerMac 8500 all the time and its PRAM battery is dead, so I have to set the date each time I power it up (I turn off the outlet strip to it at night). Recently …

I would have thought that it should work straightforwardly under 7.6.1; the ppc upgrade cards reportedly required only 7.5.2 (buggy) or above. There was a NuPower extension that we…

Hello All, I've obtained a Nupower 117MHz Upgrade for my PowerBook 540c but do not have the software to install it! Can anyone help me? W@hat do I need exactly to run System 7.6.1…

There's quite a few people over at cubeowner.com who have installed dual 1GHz CPUs and up. Course, for any CPU upgrade a fan is recommended.

The Elina is actually the quietest of the three fans I have seen in the SE series as stock fans. Click to expand... Indeed. The Elina is the most quiet of the "stock fans." B…

On the topic of the Elina fans, I'm curious...were the ones used in the compact Macs any different to the ones used on the LCs? I've never used a compact with an Elina before (the …

The Elina is actually the quietest of the three fans I have seen in the SE series as stock fans. The rat cage fan, of course, was the worst. However, not all SEs and SE/30s had Eli…

Did it have two slots where you insert bread (dual 1.5ghz processors make for an expensive toaster)?

Well, that got my attention. Can a dual G54/500MHz processor go in a Cube without serious surgery? Click to expand... Not sure, but there was a cube on ebay recently with dual …

"Reasonable nick" = reasonable condition for a three year old machine. That stick of PC-2700 arrived in the post today and the RAM transplant was done. Having the 1.25GB of RAM in…

As much as I know you love to brag about your Hyperdrive Click to expand... Subconsciously, you probably have me spot on. But consciously I merely linked to that particular ph…

This Hyperdrive fan photo shows how GCC mounted a cooling fan in one of the diagonal vents at the top-back of the Mac case (inside, of course). Click to expand... As much as I …