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Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #46

You know, over the last couple of months I've been watching the price of G4 Macs come way down Picking up a dual G4 at 800MHz or faster is now actually affordable. The real que…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 16:36

Green imac Hard drive swap how do I get to the HD — #11

There are four screws you need to remove. You can see two already. The other two are hidden underneath a panel that pops off. The panel has tons of holes in it, and underneath you …
68kMLA PowerPC by Mike Richardson Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 08:39

Green imac Hard drive swap how do I get to the HD — #10

Right, Sorry-not a G4; Green Slot load imac G3. Thanks for the replies, but aside from which one is easier to get to than the other, nobody is telling me how to OPEN THE CASE. I'm…
68kMLA PowerPC by rocketath Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 04:58

Green imac Hard drive swap how do I get to the HD — #9

actually, i find it quite the opposite, save for the G4. The tray-load are easy, just take off the bottom, and then pull out the tray. The CD is just fixed to it, and easy to get.…
68kMLA PowerPC by Christopher Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 04:48

Green imac Hard drive swap how do I get to the HD — #8

actually, i find it quite the opposite, save for the G4. The tray-load are easy, just take off the bottom, and then pull out the tray. The CD is just fixed to it, and easy to get…
68kMLA PowerPC by coius Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 04:45

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #45

You know, over the last couple of months I've been watching the price of G4 Macs come way down. It's been really very impressive to see an MDD that a few months ago would have sol…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by alk Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 02:28

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #44

Awesome! You'll be pleased with that setup. Click to expand... HEH! } Will you still need to drive dual displays now? Click to expand... Erm . . . not a fre…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 02:01

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #42

. . . I won an nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 64 MB on this go-round all right . . . but maybe the packaging and shipping costs are a TEENSY bit on the extreme side . . . :-/ . …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 01:49

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #41

The GeForce4 MX should support dual displays even with only 32MB of RAM. Click to expand... Hooray! Thanks for all your input, comrade. Not too shabby for $22 shipped! …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 19:42

Green imac Hard drive swap how do I get to the HD — #6

Hi, Try this page. It's a great resource that provides instructions on getting to any component in a slot-loading iMac. http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMac-G3-Disassembly-Guid…
68kMLA PowerPC by Apostrophe Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 15:43

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #40

The GeForce4 MX should support dual displays even with only 32MB of RAM. That should work for you, though you'll likely need an ADC->DVI adapter as well... Peace, Drew
68kMLA Troubleshooting by alk Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 06:05

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #39

Did you get the GeForce 2? If you did then most likely, you did shoot yourself in the foot. :-/ Click to expand... The auction said: "This is a factory installed Nvidia GeFor…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 05:10

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #37

To get two displays simultaneously, you need a GeForce4 MX class video card (or better) from nVidia (typically 64MB or more of VRAM - not to complicate things, but the GeForce2 MX …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Sat, 25 Apr 2009 - 20:09

G5 or Intel? — #30

I believe the other one is Delphi. Click to expand... yeah that sounds about right.
68kMLA PowerPC by Dan 7.1 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 20:18

G5 or Intel? — #29

There were also two different types of cooling units, one by Panasonic and one by...somebody else, i forget who, the one by Panasonic actually works brilliantly and has a much lowe…
68kMLA PowerPC by quinterro Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 19:22

G5 or Intel? — #28

Not even all the G4's could boot into OS9 directly, you just had classic support under OSX. Click to expand... I think the last gen MDD were the non OS 9. Click to expand...…
68kMLA PowerPC by trag Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 17:55
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