Mike, I have completely dismantled a G3 AIO before. It took me a couple of hours, and is kind of a pain, but it can be done. The nice part is the analog board slides out after yo…

Ok I did a upgrade to 10.4 from 10.2, but it didn't seem to like it so I want to try and format and then install 10.4 but it now didn't boot from the DVD drive. What do I do? *Upd…

Tiger has all the drivers for the Radeon 7000 so don't panic, it's not a great card but it is much better then the 128. Your G4 can take a mix of PC100 and 133 and you should have…

Ok I updated to Tiger and now it works fine, I have some questions as a new mac user. Is the PCI Radeon 7000 I popped in fine? I didn't install drivers. Doews Tiger already have go…

Next step: Download a bunch of these: http://www.virtualapple.org/ and get to playing!

I got it, get this....we were putting the floppies in wrong!! But all is well and now we have been using it tons. Thanks for the help though guys.

I have a question, my dual 450 G4 is having logic board issues, I am wondering if I can swap that CPU to my single 450 G4 powermac.

Well, I also have a Belkin USB to DB-9 adapter. It was made for PDAs, and only partially seems to work with the mac, but it has lights on it for TX and RX, so it might work better …

If anyone needs ROM 2.5.1 or an ISO image for an entire G4 system restore CD with Mac OS 8.6, please PM me and I will be happy to provide you with the links. The ISO is about 380M…

The eMate may require the Mac serial port to send data, the expensive mini din 8 USB adapter has the correct chip in it made to talk to Macs. If anyone has one that they could test…

The problem may be the drivers for the Prolific PL2303 based USB to serial adapter. Saw this on the MacBS2 site: 'These adapters have the advantage that they are usually very inex…

Congrats on fixing it, Mike! Capacitors commit suicide more often than do resistors, so you likely have truly fixed the problem, and can look forward to it working for a good long …

For a long time Apple would replace or repair those failed B&W CRTs. A 2-3 years back a friend of mine called about it, as he had read something on Apple Discussions or in …

A few more details will help us, who cannot even see your Mac, to help you. Does '10.2' in your sig. mean Jaguar (OS X v10.2)? Is it 10.2.8 (in About this Mac.)? That is the bes…

One of the many things I got in a trade today was a sweet AGP G4, but I can't seem to get it online, I set the network stuff to automatic and tried rebooting and unplugging and rep…

PM sent. Let it charge at least 4 hours. It still could have a capacity and internal drop problem, but a full charge will give it the best chance of running the machine. My unde…

But before that, it would not hurt to leave it plugged in even if not properly recognized and see if it gets any gradual charging over several days time-perhaps the gas gauge is ju…

Should the machine show a menu bar symbol that it is plugged in? I seem to remember one on another machine that I ran OSX on. What are the symptoms of a bad power board?

The batteries age by increasing their internal impedance (voltage drop under load) as well as by capacity (amp-hours) loss. They can show a fairly full gas gauge (reasonable no lo…

I am typing this on the G5. After about three hours today, and an hour yesterday, plus two hours at Fry's (They only had one capacitor. The guy had to find the other one. I also ha…

Try the battery in the right hand expansion bay with the machine first running on AC also, and again ignore the status icon and just pull AC power to see if the Lombard switches ov…

Try the battery in the right hand expansion bay with the machine first running on AC also, and again ignore the status icon and just pull AC power to see if the Lombard switches ov…

So your able to fix it? BTW that quicksilver rocks! Thanks again.

I found a seller in the US who has lithium cells with built in protection circuits. I think 18650 and 4/3A are the same - I remember I found him while looking for cells from my ow…

Just an update, I just pulled out another mini DIN-8 to DB-25 male adapter I have from the serial version of the TI Graph Link. It has some pins gone on the DB-25 side, but that is…