The failure to power up may be caused by corrupt NVRAM brought on by a flat battery, as the earlier posters suggest. However, the crashing you experienced is probably a heat sink…

Thank You. Well, everything's going well, except that I can't get off this metal shelf from the back side of the 7100. Two clips are holding it. I don't want to break it up. Cli…

Would anyone be willing to work on cap replacement on Mac Plus analog boards? If not I may just have to teach myself how to fix these things and start a service of my own. I love…

I believe that in previous years, this sort of set up has been acceptable. The main thing about the 'Challenge isn't the arbitrary rules, it's having some fun with old hardware tha…

So, I ended up installing Haiku Alpha 1 on it, works good, but its only temporary ( I will not use wondows for the life of me)

Ah that sucks that Rhapsody probably won't work :-( Also, agg23 I am already a member of that forum, my username there is macusr

Speaking of Rhapsody, myself and a few other people are working on a free Rhapsody OS. We also have support forums for Rhapsody as well (Apple's versions). We haven't achieved mu…

First thought: mosey over to cubeowner.com and browse the video card forum. Second, that's the way a GPU that's been running hot seems to die. Unless you had a fan on that 7500, it…

Just to warn you, Rhapsody is *VERY* picky with its hardware. Your board uses a VIA chipset, so likely will not work with Rhapsody. (Rhapsody officially dropped Intel support bef…

Beware. Some of the iMac G4 (later models before switching to the G5 processor) used DDR RAM on both the very bottom and inside. So make sure you have a model that uses SDRAM PC1…

It would have been easier to follow Bunsen's advice. If you still have the original CPU, put that one back in the Cube, install OS 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 upgrade, then put the CPU upgrad…

Update: My daughter LOVES Math Rabbit. I think I'll have to find some other vintage age-appropriate games for her. Maybe I'll get her started on LOGO Turtle, and get her programm…

Nice score, I got a ][gs back in june but haven't been able to use it (TVs make terrible composite monitors). The one time I did use it, the power supply was making noises.

I think I might have cracked my own problem; enabling me to install OS 9.2.2 without my original cube CPU, and without installing on another computer: 1. re-install Mac OS 10.4 (C…

Nice conquest! I've always liked the early IBM PC's, and OS/2 is friggen' awesome! Click to expand... I've always thought IBM made some pretty awesome stuff. Even when I was a …

OS/2 is friggen' awesome! Click to expand... Except for the default sounds in OS/2 3.0 Warp. They are extremely naff and irritating. Click to expand... They're rather annoy…

OS/2 is friggen' awesome! Click to expand... Except for the default sounds in OS/2 3.0 Warp. They are extremely naff and irritating.

Nice conquest! I've always liked the early IBM PC's, and OS/2 is friggen' awesome!

and get rid of that damn color classic board lol Click to expand... Just my opinion, but I reckon it would be a good idea to keep the original board in case you ever decide to…

If you still have the original CPU, swap that in, install, and swap back. You might want to get a legit full retail copy of 9.2.2. as well. Is the optical drive known good? ie w…

It's actually a good idea to wait several more days. There is a good chance that while it may seem dry, it may not actually be really dry.

I finally cleaned my IIci motherboard. I used a large diameter bucket with Alconox detergent mixed with warm water. It really brightened things up. It worked so well actually th…

Yeah, the only thing I can think of is to get a cheap G4 CPU online, like one that came out of a sawtooth or something. (I looked at pictures and they theoretically should work. bo…

Would love to see some photos of the 500 if you get a chance. I don't know this model, is it like the form factor of the 520 and 540 ("Blackbird") models? Click to expand... Th…

Thank You. Well, everything's going well, except that I can't get off this metal shelf from the back side of the 7100. Two clips are holding it. I don't want to break it up.