Wow, really nice!

I got an MDD (DP 1.0), Sawtooth, and 9600/200 (with XLR8 processor) for free today. All of them came with disks and dox. Also got 3 floppy disks, a zip disk, a USB FDD, and 9 DVI…

The best native video card you can get for it is the 7800GT 256MB. I believe this was only ever sold as a BTO option on a new dual core G5 so they're quite hard to find. You can fl…

Just about the only kind of memory that doesn't work in a slot-loading iMac is "high density" stuff. You can get just about any crappy old double-sided 512 MB stick and put it in …

oh, just a quick last question: do you think a completely working powerbook duo 2300c (with charger and a battery that still holds charge for 30-40 minutes) for a g3 ibook is a fai…

theoretically pc XXx should be fully compatible with all systems using sd ram, the only two exceptions i have ever ran into is the occasional mac, and almost all Intel boards of th…

The best native video card you can get for it is the 7800GT 256MB. I believe this was only ever sold as a BTO option on a new dual core G5 so they're quite hard to find. You can fl…

That's about in line with average prices, considering I bought a dual 2.7 G5 for $550 on eBay sans video card and HDD. Whoever was saying 1500 was way out. You can get an early M…

i think not. and it didn't work for the guy in the article. anyway, i've succeeded, with a joint solution. there are two chips above the bigger one with the 'ati' label, and th…

Would using just the wax in a tealight candle work? When they are almost burnt all the way down, all the remaining wax liquefies. Or would that not be hot enough?

Sounds like bad ram. Run a checking utility and see if it will find bad ram. Do you have the original system checker disc that came with it? Isn't there a utility called "Gauge P…

Sounds like bad ram. Run a checking utility and see if it will find bad ram. Do you have the original system checker disc that came with it? Isn't there a utility called "Gauge …

okay, i'm through with two burning sessions, and it works, but only partly. if i press gently on the gpu chip, it stil goes blank. i've noticed that the alcohol i'm using is only 7…

then burning it shall be. the machine is broken down to bits, i have nice, clean access to the gpu. it's hard to miss, since it has a nice 'ati' logo on top. i'm assuming that i…

If you do want to bake the GPU and see if it helps, I may be able to assist there... i've done some GPU reflow work on these iBooks as well. Ultimately you will need to remove the …

when opening the machine do you see any puffy / leaking / exploded mini cans on the board ? Click to expand... Nothing I could see or smell ) also the vans are working, and t…

when opening the machine do you see any puffy / leaking / exploded mini cans on the board ?

One of my OS 9 machines is a G4 (AGP) with an Giga Designs G4 1,4 GHz upgrade. It worked quite well for about 2 years now, until 10 days ago when it began to hang permanently. The…

I have a couple of 512MB PC133 sticks in my G3 500 DV iMac. It works.

theoretically pc XXx should be fully compatible with all systems using sd ram, the only two exceptions i have ever ran into is the occasional mac, and almost all Intel boards of th…

The 512MB stick in my Summer 2001 iMac is PC133 . No problems. It's paired with a 128MB stick of PC100 I think.

In the near future I'm most likely going to be doing a RAM upgrade on an iMac DV 400 (slot loading) for someone. The poor thing is running 10.4.11, and only has 192MB of RAM. I sug…

I'm going to have to let one of our other forum members take over from here, unless I can dig up more information. Although the symptoms do appear to match that of a Vreg chip faul…

update 2: pressing down on the heatsink did the job. as soon as i let go, the screen went blank. this leaves me with two questions: 1: did i actually press the gpu against the mai…

update: i tried to manually apply pressure (like shimming) to the chip while turning on the machine, but it had no effect: nothing on the screen, but the computer was booting nicel…