it could be the connector on the video card not making a good connection for the monitor. they might need cleaned, or buy a new video card

According to my scale, the bare Disk ][ board wavered a bit between 2.0 and 2.2 oz; probably 2.1. The Disk I/O card (including the attached ribbon cable and connector) was 2.4 oz.

I haven't tried that yet, I will with my wallstreet in a sec. Also, for OSX, maybe it needs the ATi graphics drivers? I'm not sure...

So, today I got a dual 450 gig-e, with a rage128pro in it. I right away hooked it up to my LCD, and started it off an OSX installer, to see that the video was very washed out. Play…

So, today I got a dual 450 gig-e, with a rage128pro in it. I right away hooked it up to my LCD, and started it off an OSX installer, to see that the video was very washed out. Play…

Thanks for doing that. I'm awaiting the results. :beige:

Hi, I take it one is the old style 20 pin for the disk drive][ and the other controller card is for the newer style DB 19 or is it 15 newer Apple II drives. The newer will weight…

Yeah, I want a 2nd confirmation. To be more precise, I'm ordering one (1) Disk ][ controller card and one (1) Apple 5.25" disk controller card, though I assume they weigh roughly …

Maybe 4 or 5 ounces? I could check with my postal scale when I get home. But... why? Are you questioning someone's exorbitant shipping charges on the Big E?

I can't seem to find this anywhere-- exactly how much does a Disk ][ controller card weigh? Anyone have one to find out? Know off-hand? Here's a picture of one.

ok, i switched the DVD drive back to the internal ATA bus and it is working in panther now!

how did you get it to work in panther? I am having a mess of trouble with it and i have the same exact drive and a newer video card.... Also, I tried the os 9 patch with no avail…

what i did was get a Radeon 7000 Mac edition and a Pioneer DVR-110D and all was good, in OS 9.2.2 with the hacked DVD player on http://www.os9forever.com/ even tho the DVD playbac…

Get some DVD player hardware (for example: the Plextor DVD burner 708A works great, region free firmware is available also, and the G3 will boot and install from this drive). Then …

I have a beige G3 (check signature) that I want to be able to play DVD's on. VLC kinds sucks for that because you can't do anything else while using it and even still it has a slo…

Choose an iMac with USB, and then get any of many USB/serial adapters. Keyspan springs readily to mind, and they have been at it since at least 1998. The adapters fetch up to USD…

I'm thinking of getting an older iMac, so I can retire my aging 9500.. I like using my laserwriter 16/600...and stylewriter 2400... but you can't use 'em offhand with the imac...…

Fiber optics with small nicks in the run works pretty well, having everything lead back to a single LED. There was an iBook one done this way that did, as you mention, tie into the…

Fiber optics with small nicks in the run works pretty well, having everything lead back to a single LED. There was an iBook one done this way that did, as you mention, tie into the…

There is a hack somewhere on macmod.com. It's for a tiBook I think but it should work for yours too. I think he used Fiber Optic.

Hey, I have been wanting to do a hack to backlight my lobmard keyboard. I was thinking I should use some light string, but I dont know how I should power it. I was thinking maybe …

Next step: Download a bunch of these: http://www.virtualapple.org/ and get to playing!

I got it, get this....we were putting the floppies in wrong!! But all is well and now we have been using it tons. Thanks for the help though guys.

I found a seller in the US who has lithium cells with built in protection circuits. I think 18650 and 4/3A are the same - I remember I found him while looking for cells from my ow…

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