I've had this happen before and it seems to be caused by humidity or getting dirty. Especially if your hands aren't completely dry or have something on them. I've heard that loti…

Not that I have ever heard of. Maybe MCE?

Exactly. The G4 put a lot of power for a little money on the table. Traditionally that kind of CPU performance was only found with "The Big Boys". You know them as SGI, Sun and I…

Try downloading Sidetrack. You can set parameters for how much forgiveness it has for spurious trackpad signals.

I have found that when this happens on my Lombard I can just put all four of my fingers on the track pad and rub the whole thing and it will stop jumping around. I have had this p…

I have read that the temperature sensor is actually part of the processor daughter card.

The Rev A AlBook 15" models had the same problem due to pressure on certain sections of the LCD during shipping. I would hazard a guess that at some time the iMac had undue pressu…

Yeah. Crazy feds. But at least we've got a chance for some improvement coming up in the next couple months. On topic, what other systems marketed at regular consumers ever had thi…

I have disks that have Panther plus the 10.3.9 update. It will only install the update after I have installed Panther if I first copy the update to the HD and then open it from the…

The USB 2.0 card was present during the Mac's month-long existence as a 533MHz machine, with no untoward behaviour evident. But your thought had also crossed my mind as an avenue …

ROM03 machines have less background noise coming from the speaker. It's most noticeable from within GSOS, where the processor and video hardware stay pretty busy.

Out of curiosity, does the mouse issue persist if you remove the 6-port PCI-X USB 2.0 NEC card? Cheers, Rick

Although Macally seems not to allow the name of the iKey4 to cross its lips any more, I found a generalized FAQ page about iKey keyboards. The mouse freeze issue is related …

The SCSI card will be the hard one to find (cheap). You might want a bigger RAM card for a ram drive.

I think I'll go with the ROM 03 for my IIGS setup. I want to get GS/OS running off an HD someday. My ROM 01 has a 1 MB RAM card. I can put that in the ROM 03 and get 2 MB. Then I j…

ROM 3 has 1MB built in. I guess it depends on if you are going to run GS/OS from a HD or just want to play games from floppy. ROM 3 for GS/OS, ROM 1 for floppy based games.

Probably the ROM 3. More onboard memory means that you will have more memory overall. The updated ROM should mean that less of the Toolbox is in RAM too, which is handy. I think…

Well, as a speculation, a temperature variation. In the Sharp Application Note on Mechanical Design Considerations for LCD Displays, "It is important to note that variations in te…

I own a Sawtooth but like almeath I don't have the original 8.6 install CD. Could someone who has the Mac OS ROM 2.5.1 file please make it available for download so that other Saw…

As far as I know the power manager (PM) circuit is built into the motherboard. It can be reset as above, and for reference here is the offical Apple guide on the subject: http://su…

When you say PM card, do you mean a replaceable card?

Try holding the reset button for 15-20 seconds, then let it go. If that fails, unplug the AC and remove any batteries, leave the system like that for an hour or so and then plug t…

well everything was going good with 10.3 till i started installing a security update the computer froze and wouldn't boot back into OS X Another problem started this time around th…

Multiprocessing on the PowerPC 7xx-series chips was difficult because, like the 603 they were based on, they lacked the proper cache coherency protocols and the like to support pro…

well everything was going good with 10.3 till i started installing a security update the computer froze and wouldn't boot back into OS X Another problem started this time around t…