The thing would take an aeon to start up Click to expand... An excellent point -- something I too often forget about 68k machines is the RAM check at startup.

Hello once again, Update: I managed to get a good-condition working PB 180c, and it works great! Kind of makes this thread useless, but I'm keeping the 180 around in case I want t…

Apart from saying that you'd done it, is there any good reason to put 512MB of RAM in a Quadra, especially if 128MB SIMMS cost $20 a pop? I suppose that, with 512MB, you could run…

Look for 128 meg 72 pin SIMMs for Cobalt Raq2 systems. They'll work, and they aren't ridiculously large like some 128 meg SIMMs. You can usually find them on eBay for $20 USD or le…

Just so you know, it's been said that the Q840av will take 128 Meg SIMMs, giving you 512 mega total. Give it a try, and let us know... Click to expand... I'd be glad to -- any …

Just so you know, it's been said that the Q840av will take 128 Meg SIMMs, giving you 512 mega total. Give it a try, and let us know... Click to expand... I didn't know 128MiB S…

Hi, I received my PB 3500/Kanga G3 Powerbook the other day, and set out fixing it up with a new HD and general spruce up, it came with 5GB HD and 64MB RAM (32 + 32MB) I also have…

Just so you know, it's been said that the Q840av will take 128 Meg SIMMs, giving you 512 mega total. Give it a try, and let us know...

I have a 2hr battery, so do not need a replacement just now. 2 years from now, maybe. This latest post was made purely with a view to the possibility of experimentation on a dead b…

Enjoy.

Have you looked into professional places like www.batteryrebuild.com to rebuild your old batteries? You can have major problems trying it on your own.

This evening I read with some surprise that the cousin of the 2400c, the 3400c, can use and charge the battery from a PB 190/ 5300, which is, of course, a NiMh battery rather than …

Nice score - welcome to the club! Can't say I've ever heard of an 840AV that didn't come with a CD drive, unless the blanking plate is wrong. I picked up a very sick 840AV a coup…

Sorry, I'm a little excited. This machine has been my Eleanor for many years. I've wanted one ever since I was a wide-eyed teenager staring at one in the display window at Micro Ce…

I think when Macs shifted to the "New World" ROM-in-RAM, support for machines newer than the OS - i.e. 9.1 on later model G4s - was provided by new Mac OS ROM files. So Trash is ba…

I have to agree with some of the others. As soon as a drive starts doing "iffy" stuff such as screwing either with smart status, or showing "Failed" then going back to "Verified" …

OS 9 came out before that PowerMac though. So it's possible that the G4 either has a specially compiled version of the Finder/System, or there is an enabler (going back to the old…

Confirmed: Bad RAM.

The G4s require the copy of 9.1 that they came with; or later. Click to expand... That´s the first time I hear this. Always was said the Retail CD is needet for special things …

The G4s require the copy of 9.1 that they came with; or later. A 9.2 CD should boot it just fine, though.

Today I got a G4 466MHz and wanted to do a clean reinstall of OS 9.1. I took my original retail Os 9.1 CD (not an bundled to a machine one) an tried to boot. CD-Rom starts to seek…

I have finally removed the screen - ready for when i find a new one It looks so hollow Ditty93

John - That's the version I tried first. It refuses to load in OS9. I had to dig through my collection and found a copy of 1.5f6 and that works just fine. I'm a little older tha…

I would recommend using RAMometer.... Click to expand... Very helpful discussion, and lead on the Gauge Utilities, which I have used for many years but without knowing this par…

I'm not particularly familiar with multiple processors in pre-OS X, but here's my question. If you are multitasking, and have two separate, intensive programs running, wouldn't Ma…