Try rebuilding your desktop.

I would first just remove the drive and clean all the dust out of it. Then insert a disk into the bare drive and manually eject it a few times to try to observe any problems. Cou…

I've been tinkering with my beige G3 running 9.2.2 as of late and discovered it is having some issues with its floppy drive. Specifically, whenever I eject a floppy, it spits it o…

The discs you are using, are they CD-Rs? Or is it a DVD-R? The early iMacs and iBooks have issues with burned discs. It seems they were an early implementation of a new laser, …

Oops, just seeing I posted in the wrong forum. Sorry about that! May some moderator move the topic?

I'm in the same boat with mine, but I don't have an optical drive to boot from, or the Firewire model.

Hi all! I have a dead blue Clamshell iBook lying around that I'd like to rescue. When turned on, it chimes, and shows the question mark. Nothing wrong until now: it won't boot fro…

^^ Rev 1 or 2 The best way to make sure you're getting a Rev. 2 motherboard is the "402" marking on the CMD646 IDE controller chip Click to expand... Franklinstein's rig…

how do i check what revision this is?

Do you have one of the Rev. 1 B&W? Those are reported to have many problems, though most pertain to the UDMA implementation on the primary IDE channel. My Rev. 1 B&…

With my Beige or B&W before installing CPU Director, they ran at a default speed of about 500mhz (I'm not at home so I can't check the exact number) no matter what the jump…

it is a powerforce that you adjust the speed using cpu director. the jumper settings arent supposed to matter. This leads me to think that it is an open firmware problem. I tried…

Is it one of the cards with a dial for speeds rather than a jumper block? If you search for powerforce here you will find a relevant thread.

I have a powerlogix powerforce g3 and my computer wont boot with it installed. It still boots with the orignal processor. The powerlogix was previously installed into a beige g3 …

i dont think it can be enabled for both PCI and AGP cards, i think it has to be one or the other.

Interesting stuff. I've never thought of booting from CardBus. I usually don't leave a card in when I power down (too many machines, too few peripherals), and if I need to boot fro…

Hey guys, can someone help me enable Quartz Extreme on my PCI Radeon 7000 WHILE still being able to use my AGP card? I need to use both because this quicksilver I have is needed fo…

I knew I had seen something more about this somewhere, so went digging.... The 3400c is very like the 2400c, and for our purposes the key thing is that its cardbus capability is s…

If it was always free, if you're planning to run OS X, I still have iMovie 2.1.1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMovie According to Wikipedia, all versions of iMovie up to 3.0 were free downloads.

However iMovie 2 is probably abandonware by now meaning that you wouldn't have to pay for it. Click to expand... Wishful thinking, but no, it is not abandonware. There are no l…

If the machine is cardbus enabled, will this theoretically improve the drive's speed? If the machine is cardbus enabled, will this theoretically improve the drive's speed? Click…

my guess would be only if the adapter ur using is cardbus and not pcmcia

I am running the system via a pcmcia compact flash card. Click to expand... I am thinking about doing the same on my newly revived 2400c. What is the performance like on yours,…

I normally put all of my drives in single master mode anyway if its the only drive on that IDE channel. But with the WD 120gb HDD in my Beige G3 AIO i could have the drive set in M…