It's too bad most of those members never post. One has to wonder why they register in the first place... Click to expand... I wonder if maybe they are spam bot registrations, b…

It's too bad most of those members never post. One has to wonder why they register in the first place...

Congratulations ray11 on being our 1000th member

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I have posted my lasted blog on my xanga site (where I have posted my entries in the past...) http://doctorclu.xanga.com/ Or http://www.xanga.com/doctorclu should also work. …

I finally got my iMac G4 up and running. I installed 9.2.2 on a USB external hard drive via my G3. Starting up the G4 with the button pressed, the G4 did recognize the USB hard dr…

What model iMac G4 is this? I put in my 700MHz iMac G4 a pioneer that was in my early model LaCie D2(non dual layer) and it worked just fine.

I had this exact problem not but a month ago. Something about this particular iMac i guess. Nothing I did worked. I tried every trick I could find: booting from various install …

Compatible 512 MB modules must have a total of 16 chips, 8 on each side.

Apologies ahead of time for my ignorance on the details of which models are affected by what I'm about to say, but... ... isn't there some issue with some PPC Macs not liking the …

Could it be an issue with the CAS latency of the RAM? I know some Macs from that generation are rather fussy, and prefer 2-2-2 RAM.

So I've got my 450MHz AGP Sawtooth running. However it is only recognizing 1GB of RAM. According to LEM and everymac.com it will accept 2GB. I have a 512MB and 3 256MB cards ins…

just the basics of the 2 technologies suggest that an active matrix would use more power, but that doesnt mean that they didnt find a way around that (and according to the post ab…

Further digging in the "PowerBook" sections of my ever-useful old copies of The Macintosh Bible and Macintosh and Power Macintosh Secrets has revealed that the commentators du jour…

Do the greyscale active matrix screens in the PowerBook 1xx series consume significantly more power than the passive matrix displays? I know that the early colour LCDs would quickl…

Using the "set-defaults" command with resets seemed to bring the FireWire back on a 12" G4 867 MHz for me. It was having a similar problem recognizing drives at the volume select …

I think it was boot-usb? I was actually talking about it to a friend saturday night, he couldn't remember the exact command but he remember his issue well. Two iBook G4s, one coul…

Well. ~Coxy, you were correct. I tried a USB hard drive, zip drive, and CD drive. No Luck. The Mac would see only the USB CD drive, but would not start the disk. I tried OS 8.1, 9.…

Some PPC Macs are very finicky about USB booting. They won't work at all, or require you to drop into Open Firmware to force it to try USB.

ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy…

You should be able to boot from a USB drive, as long as there is a known working OS 9 or OS X install on that drive. You will have to hold Option at boot with the drive connected. …

There were three revisions of the Beige G3 ROM: -A (LROG434-01/02), -B (LROG434-02) and -C (LROG434-03), and all with part no 820-0954. There are five subspecies of the Rev. A, but…

ATA cards show up as SCSI devices to the system bypassing the IDE issues with OSX on a beige G3 (also means once they are formatted on that card they cannot be used on the built in…

To get OS X on an IDE drive, it must be installed on the first partition of the drive and that partition must be 8GB or less. This can be overcome with the use of a Sonnet ATA/100…

Thanks, Wackymacs, but I tried that, too. I get the screen with the refresh button on the left and the arrow button on the right, but no drives appear (with a good OS9 install disk…