And this is a good opportunity to remind ourselves to back up our data now, if we have been remiss in doing so. Click to expand... which is pretty much the reason i rarley stor…

I tried the Target Disk Mode, but it didn't show up on the host (G3). When I start up the 'Book, I put my ear to the area where the hard drive is, and it can definitely hear it spi…

Target Disk mode makes the target (victim?) drive into an insensate appendage of the host computer, just as if it were physically installed as an internal drive of the host. Cli…

First, try transferring a movie from the stick to the hard drive to see if it plays better. You still haven't mentioned what file format you're trying to play. Overclocking: htt…

Target Disk mode makes the target (victim?) drive into an insensate appendage of the host computer, just as if it were physically installed as an internal drive of the host. If yo…

Does the G3 need to have the same OS as the iBook when doing the Target Disk dealy? It has OS 8.6. I remember, the computer froze with the beach ball cursor, the hard drive cranki…

In case the data on your disk is precious consider to pay for a professional data recovery service. Such service includes the work done in a clean room, any needed software, techn…

Remove the drive, put it in an external USB case, and see if it's readable there. If not, try the cooling trick (it works by lowering the noise in the read channel, but the amount …

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…