A lot of assembly control systems run on PPC chips. I used to work at a factory that manufactured corrogated paper-making machines and all of the control systems were VME's, some …

I thought the PPC was developed for the Mac, and later used for embedded stuff Anyway, my DSL modem (they call it a gateway) has a 40 MHz PPC in it... and interestingly enough, …

Has anyone put some cool leds on a G4 case to make the clear plastic portitons lite up?? How bout illuminating the big apple logo and even the smaller logo on the front?? -------…

It's been done many a-time.

I surfed around the board and I started to find more and more. DUH, didn't think to lok backwards... I do like the Red LED behind the front apple logo and have it hooked up to the…

Have you done that hack? If so please email me Or post here. I want to do it, but don't want to screw anything up - and don't know how to hook it up to the HD array. TIA Cipher1…

heh, I was hopeing hat someone else has, It shouldn't be that hard, all it is is just an led hooked to two wires and they attach to 2 pins on the array. I have an external drive ca…

well crap... I took my led light and wireing out of my external case and went to wire it up, and THERE'S NO FREEKIN PORT FOR AND LED LIGHT ON THE MOBO?!?!? (Venting my fustrations…

Have you seen those turquoise-glow nightlights that plug in your wall outlet? Of course you have! Take one of those, clip the two power pins to a very short length and solder two-…

Soon I will be releasing info about how to handle those electroluminiscent nightlights.

The controller is integrated in the chipset. There is a LED connector directly on most HDs, use that instead. There should be a label on the drive with what pin does what

I've posted this before on the apple insider boards, and someone there said i should try posting here. If you want to read what people on AI have written click here Here is what i…

SCSI idea that I don't know if will work or not...I heard it was risky but worked for me, and like I said, it's an idea for SCSI, I'm not sure if you can do such on IDE... Only pl…

Avoid the Single setting. The Single setting is a foolproof setting if just one drive is on the IDE bus. It causes the drive to respond to all commands, regardless of if they were …

I'm @ a friend's house right now, but when i get home i'm gonna try both of your suggestions. One question, however, where would i locate this so called "CUDA master reset button".…

The CUDA switch is on the motherboard, it is not the normal reset, or the programmers interrupt switch that you refer to. I don't know where it is on an iMac, but it looks like a …

This is a pic of the CUDA switch on a 2nd generation iMac - a DVSE 400 to be exact. Apologies for the image quality. I could not find a good pic online, and had to grab one with…

Further thoughts, I have to run off and do some work, so I had better kick them out now. If the blank HD is confusing the iMac, try booting while holding down Cmnd-Option-Shift-De…

Well...i tried the CUDA button and the battery trick. At first i couldn't find the CUDA switch, so thats why i did both. Maybe it wasn't the CUDA switch, it was way smaller than t…

reader50, I was under the impression the the Imac had 2 IDE channels. 1. The two connectors on the Mboard show "ide0 "and "cd-rom". Usually, each channet has ONE connector. 2. Th…

IDE controller generally has a Primary and a Secondary, with each supporting a master and a slave, thus 4 devices can be connected to 1 IDE controller. Most G4s have DVD and Zip o…

4 device capability would be very nice in an iMac. I certainly can't argue with you on that, I have never had an iMac. I have been trying to help based on my G4 experience and wha…

A friend of mine had the exact same problem with his iMac DVSE, though he hadn't opened the machine recently. He was uploading some updated html pages to his site, the iMac bombed…

Joshua: as much as i'd love to take it into the shop, i really can't afford that, and by opening it up and removing all that stuff i'm quite sure my warranty is completely null and…

Um, as far as I'm aware of, CDROMs should ALWAYS have their own power-cord plugged in. Infact, at the back of your CDROM, there might even be a third cable for audio...