The PCI box for 3400? — #1
Didn't know where to file this under but I was thinking about the PB 3400c...
Back in it's day it was an industrial beast (touted the "fastest" laptop on the planet with a big pri…
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Upgrading my Beige G3 — #17
... noting of course that in return for the bargain price, you accept the risk that it's DOA.
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Sixteen purchases from this seller, all but one ZIF cards, and …
3400c battery — #2
I use a piece of folded paperboard that fits VERY snugly against the flat side of the battery and the case stiffener where the original gasket would've gone. It requires a bit of e…
3400c battery — #1
when the computer gets bumped it sometimes turns off when running on a battery, according to the repair manual, it needs a foam gasket to keep it in tighter. This thing's from 1997…
Upgrading my Beige G3 — #16
The only relevant tip would be that you have to configure the jumper block yourself to run the CPU at 500 MHz (or as near as you can get it by multiplying 66 MHz). Apart from that…
Beige G3 shuts down with heavy drive usage! — #3
Am I just pushing that slow internal bus further than it was meant to go?
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Sounds like a power/heating issue.
Beige G3 shuts down with heavy drive usage! — #2
Off-hand, an immediate suggestion is to take in Franklinstein's comment about Royal VRMs in the Beige DT and MT (in your other recent post, about ZIF CPUs). Beyond that, some test…
Upgrading my Beige G3 — #15
It's been a long, long drought since ic-china had much in the way of 500MHz ZIF cards, and even now it is only the 750s rather than 7400s. Grab while the skips/dumpsters of the wo…
Upgrading my Beige G3 — #14
That's an awesome tip - thanks!
That being said, I'm about to put down $21 for this item:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230304040895
...and I though…
Beige G3 shuts down with heavy drive usage! — #1
Hi guys,
As some of you will already know, I'm currently having fun restoring a thrift-store-salvaged Beige G3 Tower - I've successfully upgraded the RAM, created an Admin account…
3400c Memory — #3
Well, really, I suppose the question should be this. "Is Powerbook Guy's price of $99USD a ripoff?"
G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #31
www.buy.com has the wang model of 6200, that is where i bought mine from
buy.com xfx 6200 wang
that is where i bought mine from.
as heavymetal4god said it could be bad nvram set…
Bigger drive in iMac — #7
Would be nice to run OS/X - sadly 64mb of ram won't be a pleasant experience :'( or maybe it won't install.
Got it running with the 40GB drive - its running very nicely on OS …
Bigger drive in iMac — #6
Your talking about if he wanted to install OS X. OS 9 or 8 don't have the 8GB partition limitation.
I finally have disk images transfered!!! — #4
Oops! The disk image for King's Quest disk 1 came back with errors & ADTPRO labels the disk as being "I/O Errors." I have a utility that will try to get bad blocks out on m…
Bigger drive in iMac — #5
On the tray loaders the two limitations are that the OS has to be on the first partition which is 8gb or less, the second is the mac can't recognize the full capacity of a HD if it…
Bigger drive in iMac — #4
You might want to check the jumpers - I find that with my iMac, the HDD must be set to Master or Single drive, otherwise I can't boot from the drive.
Bigger drive in iMac — #3
It should boot ok as blixanz says, the OS needs to be on the first partition of the drive which must be under 8GB or your system will become very ubnstable.
Try installing the dri…
Bigger drive in iMac — #2
That is only the case when installing OS X. It should boot.
Are you booting from a install CD?
Bigger drive in iMac — #1
Have one of my tray-load iMacs going now and have put a 40GB drive in to replace its' old 4GB. Drive has not been partitioned.
Can't exactly boot into Mac OS :-/ - just hangs a…
G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #30
My G4's have been wonky like that before. Just leave everything unplugged from the machine without battery for a couple days. Then try again.
G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #29
I know what you mean about grasping at straws.... I've tried a few already.. pram, nvram, cleaned everything using Onyx. I hope its not a duff card as these are hard to find....…
G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #28
It should work fine. Did the G4 start reliably before you put in the 6200?
Also, apparently this card shouldn't be taped so make sure there is no tape on the gold connectors. It…
G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #27
Hey folks, if I can bring up this topic again...
I have a G4 450 "Sawtooth" I have flashed a 6200 wang video card and it will not always boot. Some times the system boots with …
3400c Memory — #2
How long is a piece of string?
As with any saleable item that can be imagined, your card is worth only as much as someone else is willing to pay for it. You may be able to glean…