The factory ATA drive is on a metal tray the extends up on both sides above the factory drive to accomodate a 2nd drive in the future. The "elusive" key screw is on the front end o…

Go to www.xlr8yourmac.com for details and pictures.......no better place for upgrade info. Happy New Year http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

Apple has some good instructional videos on their Customer Installable Parts (CIP) site. Check it out. There're some videos showing you how to replace your DVD-ROM/RAM drive, insta…

Ok, I found this website: http://www.quantum.com/support/hdd/f...ta_support.htm Which seems to claim that the Fireball's "Single drive" and "Master with slave present" settings a…

Looks like the main drive is set on Master. Try setting the new drive to Master and your Quantum to Slave. Also make sure the ribbon cables & power connectors are fully seated …

I have one of the earlier G4-450's with a SCSI HD and I want to add an ATA HD to accomodate all the digital video editing my son is doing. Is the fact that I'm starting out with a…

I have a B/W g3 and i was wondering what exactly I would have to do to overclock it, how much I could do it and stay safe, and what other people have done, as far as the maximum am…

Don't. Overclocking makes everything unstable, makes your computer run hotter, and voids the warranty. This also applies to replacing the main processor.

If everyone was as paranoid about risk, we would still be living in caves... and computers?.. u need electricity to do that dont u?.. a guy could get hurt http://forums.macnn.com/…

Well, my G3 is at 450 MHz now, but i was wondering what I would have to do to actually overclock it.

www.xlr8yourmac.com This site will tell you all you need to know.

I've already pre-ordered mine at Outpost.com, and since I'm going out of the country, I'm just going to wait for it. (November 5th is the current word.) However, if you want one …

My wife was eager to start using the new iBook I bought her for having published her first book, received her PhD, and stayed married to me for 10 years (I figured one cool laptop …

I believe that any machine that has a 10/100 port is going to be more finicky than a machine that has a 10 port. Part of the n-way auto-negotiation (for speed and duplex settings)…

I've been networking iBook with my work Ethernet and at home with my beige G3/300. I use a cheap Ethernet hub and Cat 5 cabling. Frank

Ok, since this topic seems to attract a few networking nerd, i'll see if you guys can help me ; ) I'm about to go wireless (got the Base, card due tomorrow) with an iBook, Airpor…

try Epson Share http://www.epsonshare.com/epsonShare/softUS.htm which seems to be designed to do the job you want.

I recently got an iBook for my daughter, a student, and I also got OS 9 (bummer that it costs extra since the iBook arrived long after October 23) for security purposes. I expected…

A sticker that says "For FREE user support ring 555-5555 (or whatever your home number is) would be handy, then whoever gets the stolen computer is bound to ring you. There are su…

It would be handy if someone made a CHEAP tracker device for iBooks (and other portables), I would feel more secure knowing that my book could be tracked down if it was stolen.

I noticed that my iBook takes an awfull long time after the extensions have loaded to display the normal finder window. Anybody experiencing the same . . . and does anybody know a …

Try trashing the energy saver preferences. I read somewhere that that would fix it. I tried it and it didn't work though, I ended up doing a clean install of OS 9 when I got it a…

have you tried using startup doubler? that might help.....does anyone know if this is compatible with Mac OS 9 or iBook...thats one way I would go about it.

Startup doubler seems to work fine on 8.6 on my iBook. But as far as taking ages to get the desktop up after loading the extensions, try rebuilding the desktop (option-command held…

Okay, some judicious tinkering with the extensions manager has revealed that the culprit was the ethernet (Apple Enet) extension. The symptoms are that after the loading of all ext…