If it's just a dusting, that'll make things so much smoother. I disassembled it just in case I need to get to the analogue board. The entire enclosure was caked in heavy amounts of…

i found that if leave them on for a few hours, that noise stops.   seem they do that due to moisture and dust build up. if you can blast them out with the air compressor that woul…

Dandu said: For the BIOS, the chip is on a support, and a colleague can help me to dump directly the content, i will try that next week. Click to expand... Awesome inform…

Here is the thread. It's still pending, the work is simple enough to do, but with his move, wthww has been pretty short on personal time and connectivity to make the fixes.

I don't know if they're prone like the early iMacs, but it's definitely an known issue. Probably needs an analog board recap.

So today a friend of mine came in with a big and beige PowerMac. It powers on and works, but the screen and picture tend to pop and go out. Are these models prone to flyback failur…

For the BIOS, the chip is on a support, and a colleague can help me to dump directly the content, i will try that next week.

General DTK question: has anybody looked at operating systems other than Mac OS X on them? Windows 7, 8.1U1 or 10TP would probably do really well on this thing, especially if the P…

In re piracy links: Please don't. especially Mac OS X itself and OS X-era software. All of that stuff is stuff you know is actively being developed, and most of it's still activel…

Your best bet truly is to image the drive that came with it (unless you also got whatever installation media Apple shipped with it) and then put a new drive in to install some othe…

I deffinatley have a copy of that around (i'm not going to post a link here as per the rules though)

Thanks haplain! It's supposed to be build 8F1111. It was once very popular, but like almost every torrent I know, it died many years ago. Back then, I don't think people saw the hi…

I'm fairly confident that I have the correct version of 10.4.3 for Intel on my NAS LaCie... I'll report back.

Sherry Haibara said: Unfortunately, 10.4.1 is extremely finicky regarding the supported hardware: the Intel GMA900 and GMA950 chips are effectively the only GPUs supported wi…

markyb86 said: Are you trying PC graphics cards or Mac? Click to expand... I have tested with classic PC card (old and new) and graphic card from Mac Pro (who works on PC…

Unfortunately, 10.4.1 is extremely finicky regarding the supported hardware: the Intel GMA900 and GMA950 chips are effectively the only GPUs supported with graphics acceleration.  …

I honestly believe that running old macs with bad caps can lead to permanent damage. I could very well be wrong, but why take the risk?

Or just throw it out the window...

Likely the firmware and OS X doesn't support the GPU. Just give up on upgrades. Nothing will be supported, it'll reduce the value of being original, and these weren't meant to be …

The machine could have one of those gimped PCIe slots that only take SVDO ADD2 cards. Otherwise being BIOS based it should take standard PC video cards.

Are you trying PC graphics cards or Mac?

yah sometimes the sad mac codes can send you on a wild goose chase.  is best to just replace it all.

It was for both of them However it was aimed as a "if replacing all the ram fails" solution yes there are 2, iirc they are the two chips immediately to the right of the CPU (as…

I wouldn't attempt any upgrades to it besides possibly a SCSI card and maxing the ram out. It would however be nice if you could dump the BIOS and store it somewhere for safekeepi…

I second what uni said, be assured after decades these caps are going bad, even the best caps will dry out and not do the job.