Hi folks,
Can anyone offer pointers to solving the following problem for a client? The machine is a G4 1.4GHz Mac Mini, and it was working fine when it left my hands.
Its …
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How big can an HFS (aka Mac OS Standard) partition be? I always thought they could be huge, but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card with Disk Utility in O…
Just recently, my iBook G4 spits out all DVD's without even reading them. CD's work just fine, and it's a Combo drive, so why would it be doing this? If I put the exact same DVD in…
Hey guys. Lately, my iMac has been painstakingly slowwwwwwww (at start up, with basic functions, and online. I guess it's lack of RAM, but I'm not so sure. What do you guys think i…
(1) Beige G3, ATI Rage 128 PCI video card, 17" Apple blue and white CRT monitor: works great.
(2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 PCI video cards, an…
Although I use FW most of the time, high(er)-speed USB is getting to be a real need. USB 2.0 cards abound around here. Are there any that are particularly good (or, conversely, so …
Okay, so as you may know, I've upgraded this bugger a bit. Here's its specs now:
G3/500, 512 megs RAM, 30 gig HDD, OS X 10.4.11
It's a very happy machine, except for one thing; i…
I have a dual 450Mhz Sawtooth with a Uni-North Rev. 7 and 1GB RAM.
I am wondering that if I bumped it to 500Mhz or 550, would it matter? Would I see a performance increase?
I wa…
400mhz Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet. Just had a logic board replacement and needs the operating system reinstalled.
It won't boot from CD though. Disc in, every time it starts up…
While my formerly recycled PowerBook G4/500 is disassembled to JB Weld a broken hinge (it was easy to get the display apart, as most of the old adhesive had since lost its grip), I…
Have a Dual 800 pulled from a QS trying to get fully working 100% in a DA anyone have any other suggestions for getting the L3 cache to work/show up?
I have done the 12v wire hook…
My Grape iMac's CRT fails? The screen is rather dim but clear, it was burn in a bit. And it sometimes shows up red, witch I know in LCD's that the backlight is going so something e…
I will soon be getting a G3 AIO from Mike (thanks!) and I paln on upgrading it ot at least a 500mhz G3, maybe a 1ghz chip.
How can I get leopard to run on this?
Hi, I'm new here. I've been looking everywhere on how to be able to do this. I want to be able to run OS 8 on my PPC G4 QuickSilver 2002. I stumbled upon this article, just now, wr…
My dad came back from his office today with a whole bunch of Mac stuff that his office no longer uses. There were a few mice, an OS CD for a Power Macintosh G3, other various util…
68kMLAPowerPCby ApostropheSun, 24 Aug 2008 - 22:42
Yesterday I installed the Airport extreme card in the iMac. I put it back together correctly and carefully. I booted it and nothing. It would make that spinning hard drive noise an…
Howdy, 68kMLA-ers:
REQUEST: Xfer data from old ][e-format 5.25" disks to modern files.
BACKGROUND: Back in the day, my family cut its teeth on the digital age with a ][e. I used …
hi!.. im waiting my "new" powerbook 1400 what i get free.. but it not have the Charger.. and i dont know if i can get the charger in my city.. so.. anyone knows if i can buy some o…
sorry, not sure if people have seen this before, but I saw that someone did this:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/23084
granted, it was on a G4 upgraded machine
EDIT: updated t…