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 …

I have to say, that G3 is a really nice example of a high end Mac setup from the mid to late 1990's, especially with those external SCSI drives.

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…

That looks bloody awful! I'd check out your Yellow pages for an o-ring distributor (usually found in an industrial part of town); you could also consider using gasket silicone but…

How is it confusing? Why do we need a SECOND wiki for it? The 68kMLA Wiki allready fills the role of a "68k MacPedia"

depends on the differences of mine and your interpretation of whoop-whoop-whoop sound. Drive model JU-268A026C is what i used. Click to expand... If you can record the sound it…

I have two complete Liquid Cooling Units (with two 2.5ghz processor boards each) and both have unfortunately leaked. I can confirm at least one set of processors work (the other wo…

smoke from analog board, and then chirp-chirp-chirp from the analog board. Click to expand... Pina suggests checking the resistance across CR5. Anything higher than 3.6K Ohm ma…

Of course, the last picture is the obligatory "cat snuck his tail into the shot" photo.

Disk Drive is a no Go, as well as the hard drive it wont mount, I am taking the hard drive out and puting it in my g4 power mac and going to test it, them and going to toss the dvd…

smoke from analog board, and then chirp-chirp-chirp from the analog board. Click to expand... Pina suggests checking the resistance across CR5. Anything higher than 3.6K Ohm ma…

its not ram, as i looked on apples site and 3 dings are ram 4 is a rom, problem so i am thinking a bad frimware upgrade happend, so what I did was swap out the disk drive and the M…

Hmm, that sounds like a ram issue, try reseating it and put only one in, try many combos till it works.

The problem with the unit, is the 400k drive rejects the disk, sometimes with a happy mac, sometimes without happy mac, rejecting disk, sometimes with an 0FXXXX sadmac code, someti…

I can confirm that auto-inject SuperDrives work fine on pre-SuperDrive Macs, having used an auto-inject SuperDrive on my 128k (with 512k of RAM and 512ke/Plus ROMs fitted). However…

Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. Most likely, if the machine was new and it had that draw on it when it was first built, I doubt it would have given up the ghost. I am betting the …

well I need it know, It gave me the 4 beeps, (not bongs) but beeps, I looked at apples site and it says its somthing to do with a rom, Umm I thought there was no game system in th…

Ah! Then he did not do anything wrong! It probably was the Power Supply. Click to expand... You mean apart from exceeding the PSU load.

Good luck!

opps I ment Indgo, My mind is not here, I just feel like crap atm, lol geting it in a bit 15-30mins atm

Cool! But the firewire models where not ever bondi, they were either blueberry or indigo.

Ah! Then he did not do anything wrong! It probably was the Power Supply.