Its a little late for me to post, but I agree with CCC's and Uniserver's findings.

Found a couple you sent me a while back, uni. I'll update

Ok. I'll change them if I have any. If not, I'll PM you. Been looking for spares, but seems like 30 is minimum order.

cc-333 is correct the problem is the bourns filter has gone bad.    its a common problem. they go bad in a few different ways, causing oddness. i change those... but usually i sug…

I've had read/write problems with bourns in the past, but not this. Uniserver or technight would be the experts on that.

Maybe it's a faulty Bourns filter? That seems to be a common cause of bizarre floppy-related problems like this. c

Caps have been replaced (not by me) no battery it was removed and there was no corrosion. Is the searching for the external floppy part of the rom, software, or other hardware? F…

battery explosion?

caps? corrosion on motherboard?

The internal floppy is working ok. The warning box shows a Mac with an external floppy drive next to it with the warning. Should have clarified that

If it thought it was the floppy, it would show a floppy icon. Do you not have a floppy you can boot from?

I would guess the floppy drive is stuck in and it does not move or something to that effect.

Got an SE30 going, however, it continually give a dialog box stating the disk is unrecognized and asks to reject or initialize. The icon shows an external disk drive in the warning…

Thanks, I did not know.

This is known, has been posted about.

I went to the wiki to look up the procedures to clean up a floppy drive, and I got this: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/www/vhosts/wiki.68kmla.o…

I've had one of these for a few years as well... some notes I've taken: Motherboard is a custom short run (BARRACUDA) from Intel based on the D915GAGL platform. Board options inc…

It'd be nice if we can see pictures of the back and slots.

CelGen said: What does the back look like? Is it properly designed for the board or completely hackintosh'd? Click to expand... The back is a classic Power Mac G5, but wi…

I remember at one point reading what OS X version officially depreciated these machines; it was quite an old version (The retail version of Leopard?), so while it might be "fun" to…

I think if you really want to push it, you can put 10.6 on it (provided you appropriately patch it), but you'll likely need a modernish GPU to get it working!

Yes, but those are niche crazy hacked up boards for crazy people. Apple very likely just adapted a reference Intel one, but from the look of it, just put their branding and serial …

Likely a 915 chipset then. Just because it only has DDR doesn't rule out Core2 though, ASRock still sells boards with the older 865G(!) that can take Core2Duo chips.

It says DDR RAM, and the timeframe is 2005 (and probably earlier. Much earlier, if the Marklar history is anything to go back) so I'm leaning towards an early 9xx chipset. Sorry ki…

Likely a Socket 775 based machine with PCIe. Wonder if a Pentium D or even a Conroe 65nm Core2 will work in these. The latter depends on the chipset, if its a 915/925/955, its stuc…