The Sonnet 1 GHz G4 CPU cards come with 2 meg of L3 which is supposed to be able to run at 250 MHz. Since turning off the cache seems to fix your problem, you could also try to run…

I may investigate this further in due course, as I know that VM will speed up a ppc under many circumstances. Only not yet.... The particular 8600 in question here had previously …

The 8600 has nearly 300MB or RAM installed, so I will leave it without VM and hope for the best for now, methinks. Click to expand... Some PPC apps will run more efficiently wi…

The mod will utilize the original color classic speaker once I find an amp of suitable size. Click to expand... Interesting, so you'll be using a low-powered external amp to dr…

This is a Sonnet card. No switches. However, CPU Director did the trick. Thank you. It took me a while to hunt down an older copy since the latest release refused to run. What…

Mac128, The previous post was a modded plus that had to be aborted due to monitor sizing issues. The mod will utilize the original color classic speaker once I find an amp of suit…

ALL of them are bad? On mine only the orange Rubycons (Fake ones) are dead.In that lot of iMac's you got do you happen to have a good PS? I would buy one from you. Click to expa…

will you please pm me the site were you saw the mod please?

involving glue and duct tape. Click to expand... no no no no no!This topic has actually been covered in mod guides just so you guys know.

ALL of them are bad? On mine only the orange Rubycons (Fake ones) are dead. In that lot of iMac's you got do you happen to have a good PS? I would buy one from you.

Adobe Acrobat 5, Photoshop 5, and Apple Color OneScanner software, among others, are on the machine, and this involves a goodly number of odd extensions required for their use. I h…

I count 25 motherboard capacitors to replace, and then I get to work on the power supply!

Uhh on my OS X I can go to 640x480 on my iMac G5's screen and its external screen. Leopard.

Your cd drive's entry in the of device tree has just been messed up. To zap the PRAM in this situation on a ppc mini, unplug it from the wall socket. Then, holding the power button…

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …

Tragically, Gamba took his own life. Wally learned this sad news from Gamba's sister. She has been keeping his site going, as I understand it, although it is unclear for how much l…

Turning off Virtual Memory seems to have cured it, for now anyway. Many thanks. I also turned off the memory check in the Memory Control Panel, which cured another problem whereby …

I remember having a problem involving the hard drive not showing up on my PB 180c, too bad it had been sitting there for a good year without fixing itself

The whole mod took me about 50 hours, the machine will eventually support an auto inject/eject iphone dock on the top, I'm working on the mechanism now. The system was build to pu…

thats what i feared ha-ha that i didn't want to have to do that but i guess its the only way thanks for the help.

about the only surefire way to tell is to pull it apart and hold the 2 motherboards next to eachother, notice mounting differences and clearance issues

Replace the drive #1 Maxtor is not the best drive out there. #2 its probally a 40 or a 60 you would probally be better off with a new 120 or something like that i have owned macs …

well i only paid 30 bucks for that mobo do you think its worth doing???? the imac g3 dv graphite that i have is is excellent condition i bought it from the original owner with wa…

It means a lotta nasty hacking, involving glue and duct tape. Yes you could use your current heatsink but its not 100% guaranteeed to work.

sorry hahah when you say mod the heat sink ........ what would happen if i just used the heat sink from my 400 and used it on the 600? is that possible? or is it in a different loc…