My PowerBook G4 did the whole prohibitory-sign boot failure once or twice immediately before it refused to turn on ever again. Still not sure what died on it.

I'm home now and am in the process of a Archive and install of 10.3. It sucks but at least I won't have to reinstall my software. Strangely enough, I did not have to remove one o…

Probably the best looking G3 AIO I've ever seen! (i'm sorry, but I've always found them to be profoundly ugly, even back when they were new )

Doesn't sound good - cmd+v should be passed to the kernel, which would be the very first thing that gets loaded... if it's not even doing that... Try boot hd: or mac-boot from the …

Doesn't sound good - cmd+v should be passed to the kernel, which would be the very first thing that gets loaded... if it's not even doing that... Try boot hd: or mac-boot from the…

Yes, before the bong sound.

Are you holding the keys down as soon as you press the power button?

Try booting up in verbose mode (hold down command-v on boot) and see what message it gives you when it crashes. Click to expand... No response. It still does the same thing.

Try booting up in verbose mode (hold down command-v on boot) and see what message it gives you when it crashes.

Find an old Super 7/Slot 1/Slot A/Socket 370-friendly PC case and ATX power supply and you can mount a Gossamer-based board in one with little trouble. I thought about doing that,…

i dont think it can be enabled for both PCI and AGP cards, i think it has to be one or the other.

The process listing should have the path to the programme running. What's it look like? Also, have you tried checking the system logs?

Interesting stuff. I've never thought of booting from CardBus. I usually don't leave a card in when I power down (too many machines, too few peripherals), and if I need to boot fro…

Another note: If the CPU upgrade is a G4, you need to update the firmware to allow G4 upgrades. Sonnet should have an update utility on their web site. At least they did when I …

Firstly, does the B&W boot with its original CPU? If so then you can narrow the problem down to Sonnet. Is the sonnet upgrade compatible with the B&W? Check thei…

i took a look at her activity monitor and there were three launchd processes open, but none of them were using any memory or processor time. Is there any way that i can check to s…

I knew I had seen something more about this somewhere, so went digging.... The 3400c is very like the 2400c, and for our purposes the key thing is that its cardbus capability is s…

Very few of the USB to serial cables support Appletalk.

If it was always free, if you're planning to run OS X, I still have iMovie 2.1.1.

After reading the articles, I will be giving this computer a closer look. Could a fan be installed to take care of the heat problem? Click to expand... If you could find a way …

After reading the articles, I will be giving this computer a closer look. Could a fan be installed to take care of the heat problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMovie According to Wikipedia, all versions of iMovie up to 3.0 were free downloads.

However iMovie 2 is probably abandonware by now meaning that you wouldn't have to pay for it. Click to expand... Wishful thinking, but no, it is not abandonware. There are no l…

If the machine is cardbus enabled, will this theoretically improve the drive's speed? If the machine is cardbus enabled, will this theoretically improve the drive's speed? Click…

I'm assuming it's an iMac G5 iSight model. Be aware that these (along with the previous two revision of the iMac G5) suffer from the problem covered in this repair program from Ap…