Also, the original HD might cause speed bottlenecks to your new GXP on the ATA 'chain.' I say check Xlr8yourmac.com for these kinda info, and email mike (owner of the site), he's p…

I just put an IBM 30GB drive into my G4/400 and had no problems. It fit fine in the bracket on top of the Quantum. [Hey Apple, could you cut the ATA cables any shorter?!] The origi…

A little side-comment from the peanut gallery: The IBM hard disk you selected is an impeccable choice. They are extremely fast, large, but a bit expensive. I've had experience wi…

On a side note... I recall reading from xlr8yourmac that the Master runs a bit faster than slave. I say if you want to get the most advantage out of your GXP, make it master and ma…

"Quadra 630 uses a Clock Generator. This clock generator is located at position U20 on the motherboard. Depending on the surface mount resistors used, this part will either put out…

Hmm... ok, then I guess I'll be stuck at 40MHz. Not bad, considering I'll be running OpenBSD on it anyway. On second thought, no one knows where to get the only PowerPC PDS upgrade…

well no i don't know that either, maybe someone does... BUT have you checked the lowendmac site on the 630? http://www.lowendmac.com/quadra/q630.shtml maybe one of the quadra 'c…

Thanks for the help. If only I had the courage to overclock my iMac DV SE...

oh i just remembered... try sun remarketing, macresq, and shreve systems, they may have that old accelerator upgrade and maybe ebay

Hey, has anyone here actually undertaken such a project? Removing the resistors requires two irons because they need to be lifted off from both sides. Has anyone here done this? Is…

I've done that mod, it was a pain. I used 1 iron and a pair of real thin needle-nosed pliers to remove the old resistors. It was a tad easyer than clocking my sawtooth G4.

From what I understand about USB, the computer activly searches for USB devices, and when it hits one, the USB device returns a little data which tells the computer what driver to …

Sounds like you'd have to hack the drivers. Yech.

Popular topic, I haven't actually done it myself but this what I've heard: 40 Gig Drive: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum5/HTML/000764.html there's a list somewhere of co…

gee... that description on installing the internal looks like a challenge. maybe one of these days.... how fast does your external run, disectamac? Is it good enough to run prog…

One important thing to remember is the sloooooow transfer speed of USB - only 1.5 MB/sec maximum, assuming you have no other constant signals through that port. In contrast, the i…

My external is a Lacie which I've had for quite some time now. I'm sure there are better ones than the one I have. At any rate, I store most of my MP3 and video on it. As far as…

I'd seriously just get an internal harddrive and switch them. They are LOADS cheaper (a 40 gig hard drive is only 300 bucks), a CRAPLOAD faster (someone said 33megs a second I th…

Ya, I'm leaning toward the internal option. I was searching through the CompUSA product inventory and found a nice Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm for $200!!! There's no way an external c…

Would a FireWire hard drive be good for an iMac DV SE? Would it actually transfer at 50 megabytes/sec?

yes, a fan-less iMac would have a serious problem with a 7200 rpm drive. those things run significantly hotter than the 5400 rpm ones however, as long as you buy a 5400 rpm ide/at…

As long as you're replacing your internal hard drive, you could consider buying an external USB case for your factory hard drive. That would also make it a lot easier to transfer y…

internal is good... The USB thing imght be a neat idea. I'd try that. Also... I have a 7200 RPM drive in my 1 gen iMac, adn nothing has gotten hotter (CD Rom is…

Has anyone seen any external enclosures with a firewire hookup? I want to expand my SE hard drive space, but the firewire drives out there are still too pricey.

ClubMac makes it's own external hard drives at an extremely low price. 20 Gig External Firewire search for others here: ClubMac Home Page --------------------------------------…