Will running shapeshifter make a significant difference in the speed of my mac? How about candybar also?

No, and no...

Ah okay. Thanks! Just bought it after reading your reply and am now using the eternal aqua theme. Good stuff.

Significant? Depends on what your expectations are. There is a small hit on performance using shapeshifter versus a "native" theme. CandyBar however does not make a difference.

Hi there I have thios iMac 233 (running 9.2.2) which is in overall good condition, the 8 GB harddrive is just a tad small. Tried to swop it with an 80 GB drive, but system profil…

You might need to reformat the drive under disk utilities from the OS 9 CD. Far as I know, the first and second generation iMacs can take up to 120GB Hard drives.

Well ... I started off of the OS 9 CD and would have reformatted the 80 GB harddrive, but neither System Profiler nor Disk Utility recognizes the drive is there

Make sure the jumper setting on the drive are set properly. (Master/Slave, Master.....or whatever it's supposed to be, I can't remember)

I have just double-checked that (what a terror taking it all apart again and again) and the jumpers are set to Master, just like on the drive I removed. Too weird ... perhaps I s…

Quote: Originally Posted by peter_cph I have just double-checked that (what a terror taking it all apart again and again) and the jumpers are set to Master, just like on the dri…

It used to work in my G4 450 ... I took it out to replace it with a larger drive

Quote: Originally Posted by peter_cph I have just double-checked that (what a terror taking it all apart again and again) and the jumpers are set to Master, just like on the dri…

I have set the jumpers to Master, the label on the Seagate drive clearly specifies how the jumpers are set. It was the master drive in the G4 too.

I don't know if it's even relevant, but some of the older HDDs had alternate master jumper settings to limit the number of cylinders, or something of that nature. In essence, it re…

Quote: Originally Posted by peter_cph I have set the jumpers to Master, the label on the Seagate drive clearly specifies how the jumpers are set. It was the master drive in the …

With early iMac's, isn't there something about installing the system in the first 8GB of the disk? I had a Rev A 233, and I remember something like/about where the partitions/syste…

The system must indeed be on a partion within the first 8 Gb. On top of that, theres also a limit on the harddrive size. Cant remember what it is though... :/

Quote: Originally Posted by Thain Esh Kelch The system must indeed be on a partion within the first 8 Gb. On top of that, theres also a limit on the harddrive size. Cant remembe…

Quote: Originally Posted by peter_cph I have set the jumpers to Master, the label on the Seagate drive clearly specifies how the jumpers are set. It was the master drive in the …

I just ran into this problem a couple of months ago when setting up an iMac for a friend- remove ALL the jumpers and the drive should spin up and be recognized, etc. And remember …

By the way, the maximum hard disk size for an original iMac is 137GB, which means that the largest available disk size with no waste is 120GB. If a larger disk is installed, everyt…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki By the way, the maximum hard disk size for an original iMac is 137GB, which means that the largest available disk size with no waste is 120GB. …

Yes, that is what happens .... i wasn'r aware of the 137 GB on the iMac ... but I did install a apir of 160 GB's in a blue/white and they both came out as 128 GB drives .... I…

anybody know what you actually end up with on a 120GB hard drive?

FYI - The 8 GB limit thing is only for Mac OS X. Since you only mentioned OS 9, you don't need to worry about that.