Damnit I want a DVD drive for my iBook! — #4
I disagree. Someone said that with 400mhz G3s, thats fast enought to do software decoding, so theoretically, if you O/Cd your processor and got away with it, and managed to stick …
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Damnit I want a DVD drive for my iBook! — #5
theoretically, perhaps, though i'm not sure if it would work or not. Doesn't the Apple dvd-decoder use portions of the rage 128 chip? i dunno, i don't know much about dvd-decoding …
Damnit I want a DVD drive for my iBook! — #6
Curious, how about replacing the CD-ROM extensions and files from the iBook w/the DVD-ROM extensions and files from the PowerBook, G4, or iMac? Wouldn't that theoretically work? …
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #2
the bus is ultra ATA or fast ATA or ATA/66 depending on what you like to call it. needless to say, it's zippy, and the IBM ultrastar drive will work fabulously on it. I'm not sure …
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #3
You already have the reference book that you need. It is the "Setting up you Power Mac" booklet that came with the G4. There is a good illustrated section regarding adding hard dri…
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #4
It is indeed very important to have one Master and one Slave drive. However, the Master drive gets accessed faster, so you might want to make the stock drive the Slave and the new…
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #5
BTW: According to the Apple manual the original drive comes set to Master, but mine was not. Check the jumper settings on your factory drive before you boot up.
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #6
Also, the original HD might cause speed bottlenecks to your new GXP on the ATA 'chain.' I say check Xlr8yourmac.com for these kinda info, and email mike (owner of the site), he's p…
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #7
I just put an IBM 30GB drive into my G4/400 and had no problems. It fit fine in the bracket on top of the Quantum. [Hey Apple, could you cut the ATA cables any shorter?!] The origi…
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #8
A little side-comment from the peanut gallery:
The IBM hard disk you selected is an impeccable choice. They are extremely fast, large, but a bit expensive.
I've had experience wi…
install 75Gb IBM as slave drive in G4 — #9
On a side note...
I recall reading from xlr8yourmac that the Master runs a bit faster than slave. I say if you want to get the most advantage out of your GXP, make it master and ma…
Overclocking a very old machine — #2
"Quadra 630 uses a Clock Generator. This clock generator is located at position U20 on the motherboard. Depending on the surface mount resistors used, this part will either put out…
Overclocking a very old machine — #3
Hmm... ok, then I guess I'll be stuck at 40MHz. Not bad, considering I'll be running OpenBSD on it anyway. On second thought, no one knows where to get the only PowerPC PDS upgrade…
Overclocking a very old machine — #4
well no i don't know that either, maybe someone does...
BUT have you checked the lowendmac site on the 630? http://www.lowendmac.com/quadra/q630.shtml
maybe one of the quadra 'c…
Overclocking a very old machine — #5
Thanks for the help. If only I had the courage to overclock my iMac DV SE...
Overclocking a very old machine — #6
oh i just remembered... try sun remarketing, macresq, and shreve systems, they may have that old accelerator upgrade
and maybe ebay
Overclocking a very old machine — #7
Hey, has anyone here actually undertaken such a project? Removing the resistors requires two irons because they need to be lifted off from both sides. Has anyone here done this? Is…
Overclocking a very old machine — #8
I've done that mod, it was a pain. I used 1 iron and a pair of real thin needle-nosed pliers to remove the old resistors. It was a tad easyer than clocking my sawtooth G4.
Keyboard/USB Hub Hack — #2
From what I understand about USB, the computer activly searches for USB devices, and when it hits one, the USB device returns a little data which tells the computer what driver to …
Keyboard/USB Hub Hack — #3
Sounds like you'd have to hack the drivers. Yech.
expanding iMac hard drive space — #2
Popular topic, I haven't actually done it myself but this what I've heard:
40 Gig Drive: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum5/HTML/000764.html
there's a list somewhere of co…
expanding iMac hard drive space — #3
gee... that description on installing the internal looks like a challenge. maybe one of these days....
how fast does your external run, disectamac? Is it good enough to run prog…
expanding iMac hard drive space — #4
One important thing to remember is the sloooooow transfer speed of USB - only 1.5 MB/sec maximum, assuming you have no other constant signals through that port. In contrast, the i…
expanding iMac hard drive space — #5
My external is a Lacie which I've had for quite some time now. I'm sure there are better ones than the one I have. At any rate, I store most of my MP3 and video on it. As far as…
expanding iMac hard drive space — #6
I'd seriously just get an internal harddrive and switch them. They are LOADS cheaper (a 40 gig hard drive is only 300 bucks), a CRAPLOAD faster (someone said 33megs a second I th…