It's an HP Pavilion 742n. Not too shabby I guess. 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 2000+XP 768MB of ram 60GB HD Nvidia Geforce 2MX, I dunno, better then my emachines video card. and.... FULL…

I thought this was a hack! *napoleon dynamite voice* LUCKY!

mix some thermal paste with gel super glue Click to expand... [...]but the tube of adhesive to attach it to the new logic board is basically more expensive than to just …

yes it most likely came as a service pack Click to expand... I agree; that really is the only way that makes sense. That's strange too though because there are no instructions…

Digi-Key lists Fairchild BU406FS-ND TO-220 pkg at 68 cents. Going with an original might be a safer bet. Larry Pina says avoid ECG379, it can cause left side screen foldback issu…

I pulled out my power supply to clean it up a bit underneath, and I decided I would try to add an 80 conductor cable to my G3. However, I found that the connector is slightly diffe…

yes it most likely came as a service pack

I don't know anything about the pismo, but apple is strange like that.Have you tried removing the heatsink with a heat gun? Click to expand... I thought about using a heat gun,…

I don't know anything about the pismo, but apple is strange like that. Have you tried removing the heatsink with a heat gun?

Several years ago I bought a small lot of transistors on Ebay that the seller had billed as BU406, but they turned out to be a mixture of Samsung (SEC) 13007F 2 and Motorola F13007…

That is awesome! First I have ever seen anything like that (g3 wise anyways).

Here's a picture of one of my faulty boards:

Here is a picture of it as seen in the Apple Service Manual: This is from page 91: Take Apart/Procedures/I/O Logic Board/PCMCIA Card Cage. You can see the shiny adhesive pad…

Yeah maybe I can fix something this time instead of breaking it :b&w:

Panther and Tiger install CDs. They'll load on my iMac but not on the G3. I have an external DVD writer hooked up to the G3 it will list it in System Profiler but I can't access an…

thats good, go slow and take breaks GOOD LUCK!

Well I'd like to revive this thread, because I am recapping the board right now. I have done 3 so far with success, I get to test it on monday.

Looks VERY cool! :b&w:

Alright, in my cleaning effort, (nearly) all of my PowerBooks have been dug out. I have found the following: Macintosh Portable, Backlit: Dead. Documented in my sale thread. (A…

There are two updates to 8.5: 8.5.1 and 8.6. After 8.6, there were no more updates to the Mac OS until Mac OS 9.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260533077653&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:US:1123 this is a clamshell modified w/ a touch screen, that was made for …

What OSX are you trying to boot?

The G3 has been booted with OS 8.6 but for some reason won't boot to OSX. 256mb of ram, Twin Turbo 8mb secondary pci video card, 300mhz.

(Late reply for the confused stragglers: The thread was originally titled "Can 8500 do 7", with the first post also referencing 7. That's why the first reply asks about 8, which m…

I remember hearing that. So what's that mean? I'll have unreliable master and slave on both IDE motherboard connections? Click to expand... There should be a big thread about i…