PowerBook 550c — #6
My 2400c had something similar with its backlight after I restored it. I assume that it had not run for several years before I did the surgery needed.
I found that regular use s…
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PowerBook 550c — #5
My 2400c had something similar with its backlight after I restored it. I assume that it had not run for several years before I did the surgery needed.
I found that regular use see…
PowerBook 550c — #4
Well, today the 550c started up just fine as it did yesterday. Unfortunately, the random fade out (and restore) of the screen backlight is still with it. No rhyme or reason to it. …
Performa 475 ethernet card — #3
I will try OS 7.5.5, but it seems 3rd party board, so I don't believe in success.
What hardware probers can you recommend? I have no idea about them.
As for my local people - at …
PowerBook 550c — #3
Success!
This thing is sitting here with a clean install of OS 7.5 just purring away! Lost the RAMDoubler app in the process, might have that somewhere amidst my vintage sof…
PowerBook 550c — #2
With my neck in a brace from the whiplash I got when I opened the mailbox earlier this afternoon to discover the replacement AC adapter I'd bought on eBay on Saturday had arrived(!…
Performa 475 ethernet card — #2
The board is very small for the early/mid 1990s. There is no socket for an optional FPU. So it may have been designed for one of the NuBus LC family, and thus may work with OS ship…
Performa 475 ethernet card — #1
I've got the following card for my 475:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #8
Using the "set-defaults" command with resets seemed to bring the FireWire back on a 12" G4 867 MHz for me. It was having a similar problem recognizing drives at the volume select …
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #7
I think it was boot-usb? I was actually talking about it to a friend saturday night, he couldn't remember the exact command but he remember his issue well. Two iBook G4s, one coul…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #6
Well. ~Coxy, you were correct. I tried a USB hard drive, zip drive, and CD drive. No Luck. The Mac would see only the USB CD drive, but would not start the disk. I tried OS 8.1, 9.…
Why am I using so much memory? — #3
Holy smokes that was it. Thanks porter.
Why am I using so much memory? — #2
Is it in 24-bit mode? You need 32bit mode to see more than 16Meg.
Why am I using so much memory? — #1
I received an LC475 running 7.1P and the system software was using 32Mb out of 36Mb. I did a clean install of 7.5.3 and it's just as bad. Surely it should be using less? I check…
PowerBook 550c — #1
Well, having beaten up freudling's The Elusive PowerBook 550c topic more than I had planned to, (apologies there) I just bit the bullet and purchased a tested known-working M1893 A…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #5
Some PPC Macs are very finicky about USB booting. They won't work at all, or require you to drop into Open Firmware to force it to try USB.
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #35
ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #4
You should be able to boot from a USB drive, as long as there is a known working OS 9 or OS X install on that drive. You will have to hold Option at boot with the drive connected. …
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #34
There were three revisions of the Beige G3 ROM: -A (LROG434-01/02), -B (LROG434-02) and -C (LROG434-03), and all with part no 820-0954. There are five subspecies of the Rev. A, but…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #33
ATA cards show up as SCSI devices to the system bypassing the IDE issues with OSX on a beige G3 (also means once they are formatted on that card they cannot be used on the built in…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #32
To get OS X on an IDE drive, it must be installed on the first partition of the drive and that partition must be 8GB or less.
This can be overcome with the use of a Sonnet ATA/100…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #3
Thanks, Wackymacs, but I tried that, too. I get the screen with the refresh button on the left and the arrow button on the right, but no drives appear (with a good OS9 install disk…
266MHZ Beige G3 mini tower buildup — #31
Your USB card should be one with the NEC controller chip on it.
Then it will work in both Mac OS 9 (as USB1) and in Mac OS X (as
both USB1 and USB2).
I've heard, but not tested …
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #2
Power on the iMac, with a good known-working startup disc inserted, and hold Option. Wait, and a screen should appear showing the bootable options. When you can hear the hard drive…
iMac G4 Flat Panel Won't Recognize Drives — #1
I recently acquired an iMac G4 Flat Panel that will not boot. When turned on, you can hear the hard drive spin then stop, then the DVD combo drive spin and stop. I cannot get this …