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Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #45

You know, over the last couple of months I've been watching the price of G4 Macs come way down. It's been really very impressive to see an MDD that a few months ago would have sol…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by alk Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 02:28

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #44

Awesome! You'll be pleased with that setup. Click to expand... HEH! } Will you still need to drive dual displays now? Click to expand... Erm . . . not a fre…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 02:01

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #42

. . . I won an nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 64 MB on this go-round all right . . . but maybe the packaging and shipping costs are a TEENSY bit on the extreme side . . . :-/ . …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 01:49

Tiger install on beige G3 with xpostfacto problems — #8

A few points to add to the good advice others have contributed: - As folks have said, Tiger must be installed on the first partition, and the partition should be smaller than 7.45…
68kMLA Hardware by tmtomh Mon, 27 Apr 2009 - 00:27

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #41

The GeForce4 MX should support dual displays even with only 32MB of RAM. Click to expand... Hooray! Thanks for all your input, comrade. Not too shabby for $22 shipped! …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 19:42

Green imac Hard drive swap how do I get to the HD — #6

Hi, Try this page. It's a great resource that provides instructions on getting to any component in a slot-loading iMac. http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMac-G3-Disassembly-Guid…
68kMLA PowerPC by Apostrophe Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 15:43

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #40

The GeForce4 MX should support dual displays even with only 32MB of RAM. That should work for you, though you'll likely need an ADC->DVI adapter as well... Peace, Drew
68kMLA Troubleshooting by alk Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 06:05

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #39

Did you get the GeForce 2? If you did then most likely, you did shoot yourself in the foot. :-/ Click to expand... The auction said: "This is a factory installed Nvidia GeFor…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Sun, 26 Apr 2009 - 05:10

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #37

To get two displays simultaneously, you need a GeForce4 MX class video card (or better) from nVidia (typically 64MB or more of VRAM - not to complicate things, but the GeForce2 MX …
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Sat, 25 Apr 2009 - 20:09

G5 or Intel? — #30

I believe the other one is Delphi. Click to expand... yeah that sounds about right.
68kMLA PowerPC by Dan 7.1 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 20:18

G5 or Intel? — #29

There were also two different types of cooling units, one by Panasonic and one by...somebody else, i forget who, the one by Panasonic actually works brilliantly and has a much lowe…
68kMLA PowerPC by quinterro Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 19:22

G5 or Intel? — #28

Not even all the G4's could boot into OS9 directly, you just had classic support under OSX. Click to expand... I think the last gen MDD were the non OS 9. Click to expand...…
68kMLA PowerPC by trag Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 17:55

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #35

Just kidding, everybody should check out the artwork eeun posted over in the 'fritter edition of this thread. 8-o http://www.applefritter.com/node/24071 It's WELL worth a pee…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 24 Apr 2009 - 00:52

super serial card — #7

Thanks for all your suggestions. Now having tracked down the problem to the keyboard, I pulled it off and blew it out. The key is functioning correctly (testing with a multimeter)…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by scroll1 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 - 05:55

super serial card — #6

Sometimes, if it's just a dirty switch you can fix it by "exercising" it.
68kMLA Troubleshooting by luddite Wed, 22 Apr 2009 - 21:17

super serial card — #5

Key switch is not so good on the control key, I think. I had the same problem with a //e I received a few weeks ago. The 'W' key would not work for almost 2 weeks, then suddenly it…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dog Cow Wed, 22 Apr 2009 - 18:14

Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/ — #33

I just did a 720p movie trailer from apple and my Dual G4 with 1GB of ram is chugging, it's dropping frames all over the place. Click to expand... Do you understand the differe…
68kMLA Troubleshooting by Dan 7.1 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 - 12:52
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