Sucks that water was in the Performa 200... hopefully, when it dries out there isn't too much damage.

Oh, also - have you tried the new battery on both sides of the unit? Are both bays battery bays like on the Pismo?

It is quite possible for the battery to light to 4 dots, but be no good. I have one like that. It is still recognized, but drains to 0 about one minute after boot. Later, they get …

I tried another power adapter. No change. Still an 'X' across the battery icon. What gets me is that in OS9, the power strip says that the bay is empty. It doesn't matter which…

Cheers for the replies. Certainly the iMac G4s and the iPod were the ones that caught me by surprise the most. I phoned around to some northern suburbs primary schools asking if th…

6100 ROM SIMMs available here, as in, from me. To you, the price is the cost of shipping only.

Mac PCI controller cards are expensive. They often cost more than a used G4 computer. Click to expand... That is why I tried flashing a PC card. Cards like mine are around $10 …

The 2300c / trackpad acts up Click to expand... I think there's a software fix for that - check the Apple tech notes for that model, the 5300 and 1400.

Welcome back iMac600. Yep, you've scored some beauties there. Here's what I've laid my hands on in the meantime. If I could find a 6100, 7100 or 8100 ROM SIMM Click to …

Does it still give the red 'X' with the new battery? If it didn't then, I'd start to suspect the AC adapter. I have one yoyo adapter which refuses to charge the battery on my Pism…

How badly borked is it? Is it possible you can re-connect the internal display? If you get fed up with fixing it, perhaps it is your ant-farm candidate after all, and the interna…

The MDD models have three busses - two for up to four drives and one for two optical drives (which can obviously be used for drives, too). Click to expand... Well, that's good …

Paralel: I believe that's something to do with the Mac drive heads having higher magnetic coercivity or some such - that is, they exert a stronger force on the low-level magnetic f…

Hurr, I suppose that's what I meant. My upgraded Power Mac 7600 is running a flashed Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, so I've been around the block a few times in this flashing game. Right now I…

G4 towers have 2 ATA busses, a slow ATA buss to which the optical drive and Zip Drive attach, and a fast ATA buss for hard disks. Click to expand... The MDD models have three b…

A Radeon 7000 from a G4 won't work - the Radeons used in G4s were AGP cards, and the G3 requires a PCI graphics card. Your best bet is to find either a Radeon Mac Edition card (goo…

I tried this a few years back with my previous 180c (which had a busted display cable)...anyway, there is no way to enable "clamshell" mode on these old machines, clamshell mode di…

I am a dirty filthy liar. It's a 350 MHz B&W, not 450. Other than that, though, everything checks out okay. 128mb RAM, 6 GB hard drive, and it's running 9.2 happy as a cla…

G4 towers have 2 ATA busses, a slow ATA buss to which the optical drive and Zip Drive attach, and a fast ATA buss for hard disks. If you need big cheap modern drives, you'll need t…

http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/index.cfm?load=newertech.html You can download the NewerTech Gauges from that page.

I use a Sonnet SATA card. Not cheap, but bootable and reliable.

well i dont have the software to do it, so if someone would point me in the proper direction that would be appriciatd.

True, but only the first few times. I have a weird habit of taking stuff apart just because, so I ended up disassembling and reassembling my 12" G4 probably a dozen times for more …

You should benchmark it just for fun.

GREAT STUFF! I especially like that Compact Trio. Very, very nice! I like most of Jonathan Ive's Design Aesthetic, I wonder what he'd come up with w/o the need to kow-tow to "The …