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OpenFirmware — #1

I recently tried to overclock my Yikes G4 from 400 MHz to 450 MHz by reconfiguring the white jumper block. Once in a while it'll attempt to boot up, but most of the time it goes in…
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OpenFirmware — #2

take it to 500! believe it or not a few people have more succes at 500 than at 450! If you don't think it will go, heres food for thought. I just clocked my sawtooth 350 to 450! -c…
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OpenFirmware — #3

How'd you OC a sawtooth? I thought that was impossible. ------------------ -Ruddigger ------------------ Have you had your gigaflop today?
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OpenFirmware — #4

It's done by switching resistors on the back of the cpu card. I did it by desoldering all the PLL resstors and soldering wire leads to the pads. Then I attatched 1/4 watt resistors…
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Dillema (iMac) — #1

Some time ago I mentioned my scratched iMac monitor. Appears that replacing it costs $430. That's almost the price of a second hand 17" inch Studio Display. What should I do? Find …
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Dillema (iMac) — #2

Why not buy one of the iMac rack-mount kits, then get that studio display? Peace
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Dillema (iMac) — #3

They're not as nice as the G3 cases, and they don't boast extra space for my HD.
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Anyone have a DuoDock and a voltage tester? — #1

I am looking to add an internal hard drive inside of a DuoDock. I have a bracket to hold the hard drive, and the internal SCSI connector is a stand 50-pin ribbon, but Apple used a…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #1

OK, I know this is pretty pedestrian for youse guys, but I figgered this wouldn't take more than a microblip for one of you scientists to explain to me; and that is: What would I …
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #2

You need 2 graphics cards for a dual-monitor setup. G4 towers come with one graphics card in a 2x AGP slot. Adding a second graphics card in one of the PCI slots and using that car…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #3

just drop another video card into a free pci slot, install the drivers, and hook up the 2nd monitor. when you reboot, go into the monitors control panel. from there, you can set wh…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #4

formac actually makes a card called the proformance 4 that will drive two monitors for one card. such a card is called a "dual head" graphics card. this is actually a very good gra…
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What makes dual-monitors work? — #5

I'm assuming you want to show two different images on the two monitors. If you only want the monitors to "mirror" each other, a $5 VGA splitter at any surplus store will work, as l…
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