Joo think it would work with the ROM from OS 9.0 Sawtooth CD?

Thanks for all the responses. [] ]'> The ROM on my B&W G3 CD is 1.4, and on the 'retail' CD it is 1.6. Unfortunately neither one will boot my G4. When running th…

I tihnk the ROM would do the trick here, hm? so generic OS8.6 install + 2.5.1 ROM would boot the sawtooth?

Got the 2.5.1 ROM? I searched hi and lo for it

According to Mactracker, the sawtooth did come with 8.6 originally, but later came with Mac OS 9.0. It also says it needs Mac OS ROM 2.5.1. I would love a sawtooth running 8.6 It …

Is there any way to get 8.6 running on the G4 using these CDs or am I basically screwed without the original? Click to expand... AFAIK, that's a version unique to the sawtooths…

Hm? My Sawtooth came with 9.02 (which crashes left, right and centre, BTW).

I recently purchased a first generation "Sawtooth" G4 - 400mhz model with AGP graphics. It was refurbished and came with MacOS 10.3 pre-installed, but the original MacOS 8.6 instal…

Thanks for the advice. The reason for asking was simply that I have a Wallstreet battery with newish cells in which, however, I believe the controller to have failed. It came rece…

I'm sure equill will be able to provide a great deal more about the chemistry, but it is my understanding that over-discharge is dangerous because conductive filaments can form in …

If the cells were ever over-discharged, some controllers will set a nonvolatile bit to prevent recharge. Click to expand... Is that why bunches of these stupid LiIon batteries …

I wonder if you could (i know you guys will hate this) super glue the tabs, then use conductive paint to connect the tabs? so no soldering or spot welding needed?

The controllers must be matched to the batteries, particularly in a lithium-ion pack. More than with any other battery chemistry, lithium-ion requires very special handling to avoi…

The controllers will handle different capacities. Lots of people have re-celled these batteries before. But these people also know what is going with these things very well. They …

Don't recell a LiON or LiPo battery. You're taking your life in your hands, unless you really know what you're doing. The smarts in there stop them asploding in your lap.

Apple really doesn't publish any technical information in that detail, which is a shame for old machines that are hard to equip with proper replacement parts. Anyway, some people …

Are the battery cells in Pismo/ Wallstreet batteries matched in any way with the battery controllers? In other words, is there any point in re-celling a main battery with different…

If you have another mac with firewire, you can also try booting it into target disk mode and running disk utility on the other mac. One thing to try if you get a boot-able OSX ins…

Ok, thanks. I was wondering about the hard drive, but I wasn't sure because the older Macs actually tell you the HDD is corrupted by displaying the floppy disk with a question mar…

Sounds like a bad HD to me as well. 75% of the time a bad OS access generates that type of behavior. I would try both the CD and Firewire drive methods mentioned above. I had a TiB…

Did you try booting the thing from CD or FireWire or anything? Could just be a corrupted installation or a bad hard drive. I would've checked those first. As for capacitors, yes, …

Hi, My dad has a platinum PowerBook G4 laptop that has been acting strange lately. When you hit the power button, a gray screen comes up and the little wheel made up of lines fac…

Good to hear you got it going. I second what Ben said - before you buy anything, try reseating the keyboard cable, or failing that, cleaning the contacts.

Are you sure the keyboard is broken? You could of just knocked the card bay into place that time.

I did what you suggested LCGuy, but it still only plays the "death chimes" Edit: I went a little further and found out the PCMCIA card bay was loose, that fixed my "death chime" i…