The best native video card you can get for it is the 7800GT 256MB. I believe this was only ever sold as a BTO option on a new dual core G5 so they're quite hard to find. You can fl…

That's about in line with average prices, considering I bought a dual 2.7 G5 for $550 on eBay sans video card and HDD. Whoever was saying 1500 was way out. You can get an early M…

and actually, I think I may have a (unknown working condition) spare! 8-o This is turning out to be just awesome.

There aren't any. Cardbus requires a PCI-based motherboard, and the 1400 is Nubus based.

It's a powered accept/eject mechanism, like a VCR, so yeah, it does. Luckily 99% of the time it's just one cap that's blown

Aw yyyyeeeahhhh!! I visited one of those guys once. Out in the countryside. He had two barns, a concrete shed, and a converted concrete water tank, all full of Macs.

The logic board has circuitry that divides the clock signal in half. I would need to supply a 16MHz clock to the logic board in order to run the processor at 8 MHz.

It could well be, see here for the Duo Dock "click of death" and route of repair: http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/%7Ecleary/computers/duo.html ... if you're new to soldering, I'd pr…

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Hmm... does the bad PSU problem prevent the Duo from being loaded into the Dock? I honestly didn't know that. :scrambled: Oh well; I'm about to start being able to solder, so i…

i think not. and it didn't work for the guy in the article. anyway, i've succeeded, with a joint solution. there are two chips above the bigger one with the 'ati' label, and th…

I dropped by the Free Mac Pile again. It was bigger than last time?? This guy has lots of stuff. I really am getting short on storage space too... This time I picked up a P…

Nice haul - the 7100 is such a solid piece of kit, getting to RAM slots a pain though! The Duo Dock could be suffering from the common bad power supply problem, or it could be the…

Would using just the wax in a tealight candle work? When they are almost burnt all the way down, all the remaining wax liquefies. Or would that not be hot enough?

Ebay seller macmetex is still stocking the 540c 33MHz CPU modules for like a buck for two. They're a drop-in replacement, and he's a reliable guy.

I hate to bring this back up Click to expand... No, please do. I'm looking forward to further updates on this project. what other effects would I see by bumping up the …

Browsing on the 1400 when connecting with an Ethernet card via the PC Card slot is always going to be slow, because it is a 16 bit card cage. I know there is an internal ethernet …

That's yet another hitch: When I purchased the machine, the boot disk wasn't included because the operating system was on the hard drive. The machine was running OS 7.5.5. What's t…

Check the PRAM battery voltage and see if the PRAM battery is OK first. If it is, then you can proceed with trying to reinstall a system. The easiest way is to buy a disk set on e…

That's yet another hitch: When I purchased the machine, the boot disk wasn't included because the operating system was on the hard drive. The machine was running OS 7.5.5. What's …

I hate to bring this back up, but I have a couple of questions I hope can be answered. Since the frequency is related to baud rates and the serial ports are really all but useless…

Try booting up from a system disk.

Already have most of those bases covered. The PB was already upgraded to 20MB when I bought it used in 2000. Also have the 10baseT transciever and an external 4X SCSI drive with th…

Sounds like bad ram. Run a checking utility and see if it will find bad ram. Do you have the original system checker disc that came with it? Isn't there a utility called "Gauge P…

Sounds like bad ram. Run a checking utility and see if it will find bad ram. Do you have the original system checker disc that came with it? Isn't there a utility called "Gauge …