Hey guys, I figured it was time for a RAM upgrade for my iMac G5. Will this work? What about a hard drive? What do you guys suggest? It would be nice to move up from 521 MB and 8…

I just burned the os 8.6 disk, put on my g4 ( i have my g4 upgraded to the latest firmware), reboot.. and worked!.. now i going to install it to my HD.

To the 500 Mhz G4 barrier: Thats why the PPC 7450 was used in the 667 and 733 Mhz G4 DA. An interesting note is that the lower price Digital Audio model include a PowerBook CPU c…

I would not be surprised - remember, this stuff was expensive back then, and that wasn't helped one bit by the fact that Motorola was having a lot of trouble putting out fast G4s, …

I'd say you have a Gigabit Ethernet G4/400. And they're not exactly rare - it was the low cost, "no frills" version of the Gigabit G4, for people who couldn't afford/didn't need du…

I finally managed to obtain, from a second-hand dealer, a G4 sawtooth that boots up in 8.6. Yes, it is very fast. [] ]'> To be safe I sent the dealer a copy of my boot CD,…

can anybody else with quicksilver make a xbench test? Click to expand... Slomac, I ran a test on my Quicksilver. Here are the results: Code: Results 46.23 System Info …

I'll run xbench on my webserver @ work.

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…

^^ I was referring to the ring of light (provided by LEDs) on the power plug. Click to expand... Ah, okay. That makes sense.

don't spend a ridiculous amount of money to get the one working; set a cash limit and stick to it. if it doesn't work out, then sell them for parts.

Glad to hear that it worked. After trying more sophisticated methods, I found that this gentle mauling produced better results.

^^ I was referring to the ring of light (provided by LEDs) on the power plug. Anywho, yeah, I'm actually using one of them now. It's INSANELY fast. For some reason, Apple updated …

I have already resert PRAM NVRAM. It did not seem to do anything? Click to expand... Something else is going wrong here. Maybe a faulty video card? Seems strange though, since …

Hi thanks for the advice It is a 12" PowerBook running Panther I have already resert PRAM NVRAM. It did not seem to do anything? How do I boot in to Target Mode and what is Targ…

Hi Luke, Man, this is a strange one. I had never heard of such a thing. Now, I just looked and it seems there's quite some threads about similar issues on the Apple Support forum …

Grab both ends, and twist hard, back and forth, around the long axis. Repeat as necessary. The two halves will snap apart. Click to expand... Thanks.. to my surprise, that actu…

Hi I have a problem with my PowerBook It boots to BSD (Command Line Interface) instead of OS X (GUI Aqua) This Video shows more http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2oKfxF3fI Please…

What LEDs? I can't see any LEDs on my 12" AlBook.

Nice work, I always like to hear of something coming from faulty Macs Build up a good one using the best condition parts for yourself, and sell the other on eBay as "faulty". …

Being bored and crazy (and maybe slightly drunk...), I lurked on eBay for a while before purchasing a set of dead 1.67GHz 15" AlBooks, knowing that both are dead and battery-less. …

Grab both ends, and twist hard, back and forth, around the long axis. Repeat as necessary. The two halves will snap apart.