I had cd roms on 6.x machines, cant remember exactly which version of 6 it was but it was one of the later ones with the internet connection kit

what version of OS is it running? I can't recall the minimum required for CD support. Might be 7.1 (?)

Err... PM sent. :b&w:

What disk are you talking about? The 7.5 from apple is a segmented .img file. Try the Legacy Recovery CD ( PM me for link )

1.) Apple-branded SCSI drives will probably work better Click to expand... It is Apple-branded, but it is an internal used as an external. 2.) You can't start up the Mac…

Can you use an external CD with a Macintosh SE? Click to expand... Yes, but keep two points in mind: 1.) Apple-branded SCSI drives will probably work better 2.) You can't sta…

I took a cd drive out of a old PowerMac 7100, stuck it in a external case, and hooked it to my SE. I booted up and it can't read any cds. Apple HD setup (or whatever it's called)…

Sure, excuse me. I got this pop-up window which says: "This disk is unreadable by Macintosh. Do you want to initialize the disk?".

Well I burned it in x8 speed (the lowest Snow Leopard burning speed I can choose) and it doesn't work. Click to expand... Can you be more specific than "it doesn't work"? Does …

Well I burned it in x8 speed (the lowest Snow Leopard burning speed I can choose) and it doesn't work.

Auto suppliers are probably a good place to look for O-rings, too. Anything rated to survive life inside a car's engine bay should have no problems with the heat of a G5. Click…

Yes. Find yourself a slow SCSI CD drive (say, 2x or 4x, max), and it should work. If you encounter a driver problem, the "CD Sunrise" driver works well with many third-party drives…

Can you use an external CD with a Macintosh SE? I need some way to take data over to it until I get my other floppy-enabled mac out. Thanks, agg23

you have yourself a ticking time bomb... Click to expand... Click to expand... Agreed!

Nope, with the superdrive removed, the mac fired back up. that made no sense to me. Click to expand... This makes perfect sense if the Superdrive is pulling more power than the…

I'm fairly certain that "whoop-whoop-whoop" and "flup-flup-flup" or "whup-whup-whup" are all best efforts at describing the same thing: Power supply in self-protect mode. A current…

Coke is an excellent product for "flushing" any crud out of the system - leave it overnight. JB Click to expand... Diet. This was the strategy I used to revive my Mom's iPh…

Coke is an excellent product for "flushing" any crud out of the system - leave it overnight. JB

Auto suppliers are probably a good place to look for O-rings, too. Anything rated to survive life inside a car's engine bay should have no problems with the heat of a G5.

Earlier tonight I picked up a cheap iBook clamshell for $20. Unfortunately it is barebones at 32mb/3GB/CD @ 300mhz. It has the following problems: - It boots after being unplugg…

Nope, with the superdrive removed, the mac fired back up. that made no sense to me.

I spent a good hour just flushing the whole system so I'm preetty sure anything that was in there is not there anymore. Anyways, I was poking around and I found a part number for …

After reading this entire thread, I would like to second Porter's excellent question that would put an end to all the speculation: What component smoked? I know the starter of th…

I'm fairly certain that "whoop-whoop-whoop" and "flup-flup-flup" or "whup-whup-whup" are all best efforts at describing the same thing: Power supply in self-protect mode. A current…

auto coolant (mixed properly) should not effect aluminum, since a lot of cars use aluminum radiators in them just make sure you get all that gunk out, some of it looks crystalline…