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.

I did it for a IIe a number of years ago. I mounted the drive under the IIe keyboard and made up a custom cable. Instead of mounting the SCSI cards DB25 on the back I ran it inside…

I have a II GS with an Apple SCSI card hook to an external HD and ZIP drive. For the moment I have to disconnect the ZIP because it is somehow interfering with the HD, don't know w…

Hi, I have a II GS with an Apple SCSI card hook to an external HD and ZIP drive. For the moment I have to disconnect the ZIP because it is somehow interfering with the HD, don't k…

the thing i dislike the most about goodwill in our area is that they dominate the thrift / second hand store market, theres like 1 junk shop in my town that almost sells computer s…

Man I wish our goodwill doesnt suck, I asked one day where the computers were, they said downtown, so I called downtown and "the public is not allowed into that area" bogus Clic…

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…

That Y-cable is either for the LC IIe card (probably so, since it's on the drive) or it's a Power Mac 6100 DOS cable. Click to expand... Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the h…

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…

First, I snagged an "Apple 3.5 Drive" in very good (physical) condition. I believe this is one of the drives that could be used with either an Apple IIGS or an early Macintosh - i…

"the public is not allowed into that area" Click to expand... Perfect opportunity to become a criminal, and it's for a good cause too.

Man I wish our goodwill doesnt suck, I asked one day where the computers were, they said downtown, so I called downtown and "the public is not allowed into that area" bogus

While I was out running errands today, I stopped into a Goodwill store that I don't usually visit (it's all the way across town from my usual routine), but this visit paid off with…

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.…

Alright, thanks! I doubted it, but I was just curious.

Nope. Most likely given it is labeled "SuperDrive" it was merely a computer Apple used internally, probably on a secretary's desk. The SE FDHD came first and except for the label c…

I spotted a Apple property tag on this Macintosh SE SuperDrive. Link (last photo in the auction) Would this necessarily mean that it was a late stage testing prototype perhaps? T…