I was able to boot from the Tiger DVD, and I opened up Disk Utility, but no Hard Drives were listed. The only other Mac that has FireWire is a Beige G3. I don't know if that wou…

I was able to boot from the Tiger DVD, and I opened up Disk Utility, but no Hard Drives were listed. The only other Mac that has FireWire is a Beige G3. I don't know if that wo…

Ok I know what the USB 1 and 2 were. I did not know what the pc card was for. I am a dunc. I see now what you were saying earlier. I thought the card had something to do with the v…

I have never heard of a USB2 PC Card What does that actualy do? Click to expand... USB 2 is a newer revision of the USB standard. Where USB 1 (built into the Lombard) will tra…

does it require mad soldering skills? Are you reusing resistors or do you have to get more? Do you have a link that can explain it step by step? If anything I will see if I cant do…

Will the 'Book boot from a CD/DVD, or a bootable external drive, or in target disk mode so that you can interrogate it from another Mac? What you describe could be a very proper r…

Is there an easy way to overclock like on pc or is it a physical thing you have to do? Click to expand... You physically have to remove and relocate a couple of tiny resistors …

I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, but nothing came up.…

utube is like 2 frames/sec and video from a thumb drive is not much better I had not tried to copy it from thumb drive to hard drive yet. Is there an easy way to overclock like on …

utube is like 2 frames/sec and video from a thumb drive is not much better I had not tried to copy it from thumb drive to hard drive yet. Is there an easy way to overclock like on…

I found some YouTube videos don't have the option to downgrade the actual Flash quality. Especially on the mac side...

Bunsen, definately go for 433Mhz in your OC adventures - I've had two now that have gone up to this speed without an issue. If you control + click on a YouTube video you can reduc…

I get two frames a second on youtube, if that's the kind of video you're talking about. Quicktime (.mov .mpeg) video off the hard drive plays fine. Divx and AVI? Fageddaboudit. …

I have the 333 cpu and I think it is running tiger. I cant get it to run a vidio on it worth a bean. I just figured the 8 meg vidio could not handle it. I have tried swaping ram ou…

2 questions 1 i have a 867ghz quicksilver with 10.4.11 and what looks to be a factory apple scsi atto install can i add ide drives "i have several" with the scsi drive or must i …

I've only ever had the fan fire up on both my Pismo and Lombard when I had them sitting on a soft vinyl chair for a couple of hours watching a movie - it was pretty hot after that …

At the moment the 400mhz card has been replaced with a 333mhz card. While it does run a little warm at times depending on what I'm doing so far it has not crashed since the proces…

Well. I just lifted the keyboard on my Lombard to check. Turns out the sound I always thought was the fan, is in fact the hard drive. The fan (next to the air vent on the left h…

Hi Everyone I am new to mac. Just got my hands on a pb g3 lombard and it keeps sutting down do to over heating. I know the fan is not kicking on and I also know the fan works by t…

Thanks to almeath, I could test it for myself. Here is my story: I tried to boot an existing 8.6 installation from my g3 b&w on the g4 sawtooth (it has the onboard firewir…

Funny price - I got one for free. Awful display. Slow. 99% chance the battery is useless.

He said he purchased a few and I guess opened one of them. I don't care for that model so I think the price is a bit steep. Wonder if the battery will even charge after all this ti…

Sealed? Then what laptop is in the picture?

I heard about the exploding batteries but nothing about case quality or anything like that. Mind you I was wondering a little while ago why you never see any 5300s anywhere.

I have a 5300ce got at the thrift store. External scsi devices will not mount on the desktop. I have the right SCSI cable. A hard drive,CD rom nor zip drive will mount. SCSI probe …