Have you tried a different power adaptor? Any Duo (will run the machine, though will NOT charge the battery), 1400, 2400, 3400, G3 or clamshell iBook adaptor will work. I've had m…

Recently I re-celled a pack for my Pismo, and noticed initially that the machine would not startup at all, not even momentarily, from the fully charged pack. I had previously tri…

A couple of other things I noticed were that when I have it unplugged and put the battery in it the computer starts and then shuts off quickly. Also if I unplug it and leave the b…

Never heard of that. I booted it with an OS9.2 CD to check if it was a problem with just OSX and the same thing happens. OS9 does not see the battery. I'm thinking it is the PMU…

there is a way to reset the battery power manager. Take a wire and short both the + and - terminals. It will short out the power manager and reset it. The battery won't explode,…

Mine does the same. I'm assuming that the circuit board that manages the battery isn't managing and was looking to replace it at some point.

almeath, Even though we now know that you have a Gigabit Ethernet G4 that probably can't run 8.6, it would be nice if you would make the Sawtooth 8.6 system files available for th…

As an aside, now that we know that almeath's G4 is really a Gigabit Ethernet model and not a Sawtooth, all of my speculation above about the effect of boot rom v3.3.x on a Sawtooth…

I agree with LCGuy that what you have is a Gigabit Ethernet model (and not some weird hybrid). I think that MacTracker is wrong about M5183 being the model number for the original…

On a side note, even the single CPU heatsink clips had DUAL on them.

Then I assume a mainboard swap took place. All this time I was going on the model # listed on the case.

I'd say you have a Gigabit Ethernet G4/400. And they're not exactly rare - it was the low cost, "no frills" version of the Gigabit G4, for people who couldn't afford/didn't need d…

I'm currently trying to resolve the question of whether I actually have a gigabit ethernet G4, rather than an original sawtooth. Here is what I have found: (1) The label on the b…

Well, I am in Canada and have done this with an eMate battery pack. You would be best getting some tabbed NiMh AA cells, and following the excellent instructions online at http://w…

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What's cool is neither eMac qualified under the program but Apple fixed them anyway because they did exhibit the actual problem, which is the bulging capacitors. Click to expand…

What's cool is neither eMac qualified under the program but Apple fixed them anyway because they did exhibit the actual problem, which is the bulging capacitors. Click to expand…

In response to another topic where a person asked how to differentiate Sawtooth motherboard versions, I decided to do some more investigation to find out exactly what is the differ…

Too much longer and Apple will actually stop honoring requests to have eMacs fixed for free.

Wha?? You are my hero!!! I have to try reasoning with them if I ever need to have an eMac fixed. Thanks for the example!

yeah...i'm in agreement with Patrickcool here. i don't think the iphone has any bearing on their decision to repair those machines. in fact, i'm going to be so bold as to say tha…

As for the random terminal sleep issues, some machines can be pretty bad, particularly if they use the magnetic sleep switches. For the Wallstreet, if some hard drives are install…

almeath, If you do decide to try the open firmware trick to flash using the older 2.4 firmware, you may want to first read the cubeowner forum post where Pareis describes his disc…

almeath, The fact that your Sawtooth has boot rom v3.3.4 got me thinking last night about this very question, can trying to revert to an earlier version of the firmware make the m…

That sounds... really unlikely, but that's just me.