can anybody else with quicksilver make a xbench test? anyway I want to do something like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/swingnut/192511017/ I tried to unscrew the 4 srews but…

That's a pretty good overclock, those G4's run fairly warm, something that may not be apparent if you haven't really pushed the machine. It would probably be worth removing the he…

That's a pretty good overclock, those G4's run fairly warm, something that may not be apparent if you haven't really pushed the machine. It would probably be worth removing the he…

I bought a 933MHz QuickSilver from a friend that I tought is 2002 version. What I found out is that is a 733MHz 2001 version overclocked. So I made a resaarch and found this site h…

My PCI SCSI card is an Adaptec 7850 flavour card, model AVA 2906. A fairly common card so it could be possible that it is the same as yours. Drivers for OS X can be downloaded here…

The OP has reported what System Profile provides from DMI. pci = PCI device 9004 = Vendor ID for Adaptec 7850 = Model number I don't know whether Adaptec have multiple flavours…

There should be more info than that on the card itslef...

Hey guys I have this scsi card in my PowerMac G4 and I can't find the drivers for it. the only info i can get is this. pci9004,7850 Help please?

....in my kitchen having a glass of chocolate milk Click to expand... so that was the magic ingredient.

Hey I would be glad to! I installed 8.1 again, but this time I formatted the Hard drive as Mac OS Standard. Then I install a minimal 8.1. I boot into that and put my 7.6 CD into th…

Thank you so much! I now have a working OS 7.6 system Click to expand... (a) Can you tell us how you got out of your pickle? It would be nice to know what the problem really wa…

Thank you so much! I now have a working OS 7.6 system

2) Booted from 8.1 CD, installed 8.1 Click to expand... Good, you have a working state you can get back to. Put this back on so you know you having a working system and can the…

Okay, 1) Had 9.1 on it. 2) Booted from 8.1 CD, installed 8.1 3) On mac mini made 7.6 CD. 4) Installed 7.6 from 8.1 5) Went to boot, says " Cannot use this system disk on this …

I'm lost. I can't work out what you have done and what you are trying to do. What was 8.1 running on? Normally to install an OS you have to have booted from a different device t…

I can view the files on my Mac mini. And I've booted (recently) 8.1 and had that install, but I installed 7.6 from the 8.1 install and it says on boot " This system disk cannot be …

Not all OS disks are bootable. 1. can you view the contents on a another mac? 2. can you boot the 1400 with a disk tools disk?

Hello all, I have a .toast file with Mac OS 7.6 on it. I know the file works because it was tested before being sent to me. I burn it in Toast ( 7.1 ) and go to boot up my 1400, I …

Aside from whatever identification strings and machine-specific features that may or may not be enabled in OF (i.e, video spanning), the iBook G4, PowerBook G4 Al, late-model eMac…

Sounds like it is a 'dead hd' given the circumstances you said. You could always try and take the drive out, and put it in an external enclosure to see if it is recognised on anoth…

Hi folks, Can anyone offer pointers to solving the following problem for a client? The machine is a G4 1.4GHz Mac Mini, and it was working fine when it left my hands. Its …

but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card Click to expand... Some CF and USB memory sticks can only be used with FAT16 or FAT32. They omit the DOS partition table …

Interesting. Anyone know why a 1.2 GB partition fails to format in disk utility then?

Standard HFS can go to 2Gig.

Hey gang, How big can an HFS (aka Mac OS Standard) partition be? I always thought they could be huge, but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card with Disk Utility in O…