I tried this a few years back with my previous 180c (which had a busted display cable)...anyway, there is no way to enable "clamshell" mode on these old machines, clamshell mode di…

I am a dirty filthy liar. It's a 350 MHz B&W, not 450. Other than that, though, everything checks out okay. 128mb RAM, 6 GB hard drive, and it's running 9.2 happy as a cla…

G4 towers have 2 ATA busses, a slow ATA buss to which the optical drive and Zip Drive attach, and a fast ATA buss for hard disks. If you need big cheap modern drives, you'll need t…

http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/index.cfm?load=newertech.html You can download the NewerTech Gauges from that page.

I use a Sonnet SATA card. Not cheap, but bootable and reliable.

well i dont have the software to do it, so if someone would point me in the proper direction that would be appriciatd.

True, but only the first few times. I have a weird habit of taking stuff apart just because, so I ended up disassembling and reassembling my 12" G4 probably a dozen times for more …

You should benchmark it just for fun.

GREAT STUFF! I especially like that Compact Trio. Very, very nice! I like most of Jonathan Ive's Design Aesthetic, I wonder what he'd come up with w/o the need to kow-tow to "The …

After owning each unit for the past few days I have swapped the RAM card and Hard drive in the 230 into the 280c. Still works great and I gained new experience in opening up a duo…

Holy hell. I wish I knew how to ingratiate myself with public schools doing cleanouts so well as some of the others here, yourself included. You got some pretty sweet swag, comra…

Well, I'd say either look for a normal LCIII motherboard or seek someone out with a broken LCIII board with a working CPU and get the chips swapped. It really shouldn't matter sinc…

Very nice haul there. The G4s were an awesome deal and the 1st generation iPod! I'd love to get my hands on the original as there are not to many around.

Damn! You really did get those G4s for a steal. I've never seen one go for under $90 in my life . They're one of my favourite Ive designs - the floating screen is just spectacu…

Nope, didn't work . . .

How terribly anticlimactic. Oh well.

It's not hard to find decent SATA drive to PATA bus adapters. Whether or not some are flakey, plenty are just fine. I'm using several - one is on a PowerMac G4 with a 1 TB drive, a…

I didn't buy it.

Yeah! It kills me when this happens.

As for the Daystar Diskrunner, I know next to nothing about it. Click to expand... Same here, but I do seem to recall someone else here extolling their virtues. I'll see if I …

The onboard PATA bus can do 133MHz/channel, so unless you really need more than 1.5TB of storage you should be set. You could even do set up a software RAID in Disk Utility for ex…

So, Dog Cow, how does this saga end? You can't just leave us hanging!

As for the adapters, the kind that let you put a PATA drive on a SATA computer are significantly more reliable than the other way 'round. Yes, there are ones to put SATA drives on…

In part maybe, but it likely has much more to do with the ROM code not recognizing the foreign floppy drive, or the pinouts not conforming to Apple's hardware specs.

Sil3512 can be. If their rom is stored on a flashable chip. I have a really cheap possibly shady one from a bargain bin in Japan with very few markings on it and it does not flash …