Have you checked the available patches? Check out the Microsoft "Mactopia" pages, because I *think* that there was a note about Office 98 and OS 9, and there is a patch to fix kno…

thanks i had office98 updated a while ago but i had vir mem on because i couldn't afford any errors like that. but now that i have checked i think the patch really did solve the pr…

I have an extra 4gig Fujitsu drive that I want to install into my Single processor G4/500. I already have the factory installed Quantum Fireball Plus LM 27gig. According to the o…

The factory ATA drive is on a metal tray the extends up on both sides above the factory drive to accomodate a 2nd drive in the future. The "elusive" key screw is on the front end o…

Go to www.xlr8yourmac.com for details and pictures.......no better place for upgrade info. Happy New Year http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

Apple has some good instructional videos on their Customer Installable Parts (CIP) site. Check it out. There're some videos showing you how to replace your DVD-ROM/RAM drive, insta…

Ok, I found this website: http://www.quantum.com/support/hdd/f...ta_support.htm Which seems to claim that the Fireball's "Single drive" and "Master with slave present" settings a…

Looks like the main drive is set on Master. Try setting the new drive to Master and your Quantum to Slave. Also make sure the ribbon cables & power connectors are fully seated …

I have one of the earlier G4-450's with a SCSI HD and I want to add an ATA HD to accomodate all the digital video editing my son is doing. Is the fact that I'm starting out with a…

I have a B/W g3 and i was wondering what exactly I would have to do to overclock it, how much I could do it and stay safe, and what other people have done, as far as the maximum am…

Don't. Overclocking makes everything unstable, makes your computer run hotter, and voids the warranty. This also applies to replacing the main processor.

If everyone was as paranoid about risk, we would still be living in caves... and computers?.. u need electricity to do that dont u?.. a guy could get hurt http://forums.macnn.com/…

Well, my G3 is at 450 MHz now, but i was wondering what I would have to do to actually overclock it.

www.xlr8yourmac.com This site will tell you all you need to know.

I have heard that the motherboard / ROM of the iBook was designed to support DVD drives, but that Apple left the drive off to further distiguish the iBook from the PowerBook G3. H…

If you do it, let us all know how it works out!

I have a mat****a in mine.... I'm not sure if they are putting different ones in...

I got the DVD software decoder from the iMac DV to run of my iBook and power mac G3 by hacking it a little. DVD works fine on the G3 but I dont have a DVD drive for the iBook. Anyw…

Ok guys I think I got it... checked the specs on the CD-ROM drive that comes with the iBook and its a Mat****a/Pansonic CR-175 drive. Well it looks like they make a DVD drive that …

I want to buy an an iBook real bad. I just can't justify it without the DVD drive. Is there a URL for that DVD-ROM drive from Mat****a? I have the instructions for overclocking t…

The URL for the CD-ROM the came in the iBook (CR-175) is: http://www.panasonic.com/industrial_...urrent/175.htm And the URL for the 4X DVD 24X CD-ROM Drive (SR-8173) is: http://w…

The possibility of putting a DVD drive in an iBook seems really cool, but will a DVD installed in one need a hardware-based decoder or will Apple's (or some other 3rd party's) soft…

I have figured out how to hack the Apple software decoder version 2.0b2 from Apple. Works fine for DVD on my 9500/400G3 w/ SCSI DVD and Rage 128 Orion. Shold work on the iBook, jus…

Where can you buy such a DVD drive.? Are they only sold for OEM?

I call the company who made the CD rom . They said they'll have the DVD one in March and if I'm interested , they can sell it to me. I'd like to try. But I'd like to know is it tha…