Did you try just a K6-2 fan, or a K6-2 heat sink and fan? Click to expand... Only the fan screwed to the original B&W rev.2 Heatsink. If I get a heatpiped one, I'm afr…

Did you try just a K6-2 fan, or a K6-2 heat sink and fan? It would take some sheet or metal bar work, but you might consider trying to mount some of the modern heat pipe equipped …

Hi, As I told in other posts, I use a B&W G3 with G4 zif from Yikes! 400 at 450mhz (trying 500mhz still). I followed the voltage tweaking guide to achieve 500mhz by settin…

It doesn't work with the ROM from 9.0 I tried it.

Joo think it would work with the ROM from OS 9.0 Sawtooth CD?

Thanks for all the responses. [] ]'> The ROM on my B&W G3 CD is 1.4, and on the 'retail' CD it is 1.6. Unfortunately neither one will boot my G4. When running th…

I tihnk the ROM would do the trick here, hm? so generic OS8.6 install + 2.5.1 ROM would boot the sawtooth?

Got the 2.5.1 ROM? I searched hi and lo for it

According to Mactracker, the sawtooth did come with 8.6 originally, but later came with Mac OS 9.0. It also says it needs Mac OS ROM 2.5.1. I would love a sawtooth running 8.6 It …

Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition, if you don't want to fool around with flashing PC cards is the best.

Is there any way to get 8.6 running on the G4 using these CDs or am I basically screwed without the original? Click to expand... AFAIK, that's a version unique to the sawtooths…

Hm? My Sawtooth came with 9.02 (which crashes left, right and centre, BTW).

If you can flash a 5200, not bad price for some that can handle modern gaming (Not with full settings, but I play Orange Box with it).

if you really want the best video card go for a flashed Radeon 9800 with 256MB VRAM or a flashed GeForce 7 series card. the 9800 gets pretty hot compared to the geforce cards. so …

I recently purchased a first generation "Sawtooth" G4 - 400mhz model with AGP graphics. It was refurbished and came with MacOS 10.3 pre-installed, but the original MacOS 8.6 instal…

... But, what all are you wanting to do with it? If you just want it for "2d" stuff, then your 7500 is perfectly acceptable. If you want it for Core Image stuff, then a Radeon 96…

An ATI Radeon 9800 is, I believe, the best video card that was released for that Mac. There was an X800 released, but it requires the 8X AGP slot of the Power Mac G5, so won't wor…

i want the best video card for a quicksilver g4 dual 1 g machine. well less than 150 $ us. i have a 7500 apg currently per alk [8D] which works great i would like to dual boot…

If you have another mac with firewire, you can also try booting it into target disk mode and running disk utility on the other mac. One thing to try if you get a boot-able OSX ins…

Ok, thanks. I was wondering about the hard drive, but I wasn't sure because the older Macs actually tell you the HDD is corrupted by displaying the floppy disk with a question mar…

Sounds like a bad HD to me as well. 75% of the time a bad OS access generates that type of behavior. I would try both the CD and Firewire drive methods mentioned above. I had a TiB…

Did you try booting the thing from CD or FireWire or anything? Could just be a corrupted installation or a bad hard drive. I would've checked those first. As for capacitors, yes, …

Hi, My dad has a platinum PowerBook G4 laptop that has been acting strange lately. When you hit the power button, a gray screen comes up and the little wheel made up of lines fac…

ive got one sitting around in my garage collecting dust

Thats a good machine you got there, hold onto it.