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Active matrix power consumption — #2

Further digging in the "PowerBook" sections of my ever-useful old copies of The Macintosh Bible and Macintosh and Power Macintosh Secrets has revealed that the commentators du jour…
68kMLA PowerPC by beachycove Thu, 2 Jul 2009 - 21:21

Active matrix power consumption — #1

Do the greyscale active matrix screens in the PowerBook 1xx series consume significantly more power than the passive matrix displays? I know that the early colour LCDs would quickl…
68kMLA PowerPC by beachycove Wed, 1 Jul 2009 - 14:50

iBook 600 16MB VRAM Driver - Where? — #13

I have been, since reading it some years ago, persuaded that there was never a Retail OS 9.2.2 CD, although Retail OS 9.2.1 certainly exists as [Z-]691-3334-A. This is not a termi…
68kMLA OS 9 by equill Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 16:30

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 …
68kMLA PowerPC by tyrannis Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 15:39

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by ~Coxy Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 10:32

iBook 600 16MB VRAM Driver - Where? — #12

I have a bunch of iBook 900 MHz systems and I used an ordinary Mac OS 9.2.2 install disc and it worked fine. Obtain an ordinary Mac OS 9.2.2 install disc and all will be fine. C…
68kMLA OS 9 by Temetka Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 06:20

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.…
68kMLA PowerPC by pvolkmann Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 01:30

iBook 600 16MB VRAM Driver - Where? — #11

I have a bunch of iBook 900 MHz systems and I used an ordinary Mac OS 9.2.2 install disc and it worked fine. Obtain an ordinary Mac OS 9.2.2 install disc and all will be fine.
68kMLA OS 9 by Mike Richardson Mon, 29 Jun 2009 - 00:31

iBook 600 16MB VRAM Driver - Where? — #9

In the light of the discussion and listing in this thread, what could be of interest to you? My Install and Restore CDs for the immediately preceding iBook (600MHz/14-in/8MB VRAM)…
68kMLA OS 9 by equill Sat, 27 Jun 2009 - 16:43

iBook 600 16MB VRAM Driver - Where? — #8

I have the same problem with an iBook G3 (800MHz 32 MB VRAM model). I've got a 9.2.2 installer CD that shipped with the 16MB iBooks, but it hasn't solved the problem for me, eithe…
68kMLA OS 9 by alk Sat, 27 Jun 2009 - 07:22

iBook 600 16MB VRAM Driver - Where? — #7

That's it. I've downloaded and burned about a dozen .ISO files - all useless. I also have retail copies of OS 9 -> 9.2.1 and 9.1, neither will let me install. Yes they are…
68kMLA OS 9 by Temetka Sat, 27 Jun 2009 - 06:57

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by alk Wed, 24 Jun 2009 - 03:39

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. …
68kMLA PowerPC by joshc Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 20:40

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by trag Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 19:28

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by Unknown_K Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 05:48

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by Temetka Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 05:37

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by pvolkmann Tue, 23 Jun 2009 - 01:40

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 …
68kMLA PowerPC by dan_g Mon, 22 Jun 2009 - 20:56

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…
68kMLA PowerPC by joshc Mon, 22 Jun 2009 - 08:12

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 …
68kMLA PowerPC by pvolkmann Sun, 21 Jun 2009 - 15:08

Beige G3 or iMac G3? — #24

I think I will get the B&W. And a 450. (I remember I seen something about this, but can I pull the processor from a Yikes! and put on a B&W?) Click to expand... …
68kMLA PowerPC by JRL Sat, 20 Jun 2009 - 05:28

Beige G3 keeps crashing — #10

I did fresh install of OS 8.6, AppleShare, and Timbuktu. Disabled all of the unnecessary extensions. So far it's holding out. I still think I'll pop the hood and give it a once-ove…
68kMLA PowerPC by Gil Fri, 19 Jun 2009 - 22:36

Beige G3 keeps crashing — #9

I had no end of trouble with OS X 10.2.8 on my Beige G3, after a while it would just die. It then turned out it was going into power saver mode : , so I disabled that and it's b…
68kMLA PowerPC by porter Fri, 19 Jun 2009 - 21:41
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