... But, what all are you wanting to do with it? If you just want it for "2d" stuff, then your 7500 is perfectly acceptable. If you want it for Core Image stuff, then a Radeon 96…

An ATI Radeon 9800 is, I believe, the best video card that was released for that Mac. There was an X800 released, but it requires the 8X AGP slot of the Power Mac G5, so won't wor…

Well you're not going to believe this, but it seems to have come back to life again. I just sat down with it and tried various arrangements of CPU, motherboard and RAM. Eventually …

Hmm, well now this is odd. I tried the direct method once more with the 24x, and it opened just fine, but did not close. I then plugged the molex into the other cable to go to all …

OK, so I double checked the jumper settings. Then I unplugged the IDE cable on the CD-ROM, still nothing. So, I had a hunch, and unplugged the master molex cable, and plugged it di…

i want the best video card for a quicksilver g4 dual 1 g machine. well less than 150 $ us. i have a 7500 apg currently per alk [8D] which works great i would like to dual boot…

Thanks for the advice. The reason for asking was simply that I have a Wallstreet battery with newish cells in which, however, I believe the controller to have failed. It came rece…

I'm sure equill will be able to provide a great deal more about the chemistry, but it is my understanding that over-discharge is dangerous because conductive filaments can form in …

If the cells were ever over-discharged, some controllers will set a nonvolatile bit to prevent recharge. Click to expand... Is that why bunches of these stupid LiIon batteries …

I wonder if you could (i know you guys will hate this) super glue the tabs, then use conductive paint to connect the tabs? so no soldering or spot welding needed?

The controllers must be matched to the batteries, particularly in a lithium-ion pack. More than with any other battery chemistry, lithium-ion requires very special handling to avoi…

The controllers will handle different capacities. Lots of people have re-celled these batteries before. But these people also know what is going with these things very well. They …

Don't recell a LiON or LiPo battery. You're taking your life in your hands, unless you really know what you're doing. The smarts in there stop them asploding in your lap.

Not a small part of the problem seems to be that some software serials were generated only when you supplied the ID number of the particular Newton unit itself on which you wanted …

Please consider that some authors do not want their software to be freely developed after they have abandoned it. It is all fine and dandy to label them as greedy because of that,…

I do think that if a programmer ceases support of a product they should either make an unprotected full version available for distribution or else continue to provide unlock codes …

I do think that if a programmer ceases support of a product they should either make an unprotected full version available for distribution or else continue to provide unlock codes …

Thanks, guys you have given me a lot to think about and check out later on today. Both CD drives are IDE, and nothing is stuck in either one. I managed to use a paperclip to check …

Apple really doesn't publish any technical information in that detail, which is a shame for old machines that are hard to equip with proper replacement parts. Anyway, some people …

Are the battery cells in Pismo/ Wallstreet batteries matched in any way with the battery controllers? In other words, is there any point in re-celling a main battery with different…

If you have another mac with firewire, you can also try booting it into target disk mode and running disk utility on the other mac. One thing to try if you get a boot-able OSX ins…

Ok, thanks. I was wondering about the hard drive, but I wasn't sure because the older Macs actually tell you the HDD is corrupted by displaying the floppy disk with a question mar…

I assume you are trying to push the button on the front of the machine right after power up. (Keyboard eject does not work on the AIO IIRC). If you wait until it thinks it is boo…

Turn it on after unplugging the CD's data cable. If it ejects, then the problem is with the configuration, cable, or motherboard. Make sure the CDROM is set properly. On most beig…

Actually, there is nothing on the hard drive. It is totally blank, a clean slate. I did it that way so I could install a fresh copy of 9 with all the drivers on the machine. Shoul…