look up the pins (or you could just run a screw driver over the pins) where the button connectors connect to the board and try starting it that way.

Yes there was - it was briefly marketed as an upgrade for the Beige G3 (not slot compatible with AGP graphics G4s). I think it was pulled for power and/or reliability issues. You…

it can natively boot linux/bsd without needing to bootstrap from within MacOS (as can any machine with of1.0.5) Click to expand... Is that right? Awesome. How do you get that…

I had the tunnel vision/darkening corners fault on a Duo 280 greyscale. i think that's a fault in the LCD itself rather than the backlight, but I am open to better information.

OMS is also freely available (Open Midi System). Apple MIDI Manager runs best on older System software (7.x.x and below). There's nothing wrong with a 61xx if you're running a st…

You will also need MIDI software. Click to expand... Apple's MIDI Manager is freely available.

I hated my 6116. I would get the suggested MIDI kit and use that instead on the 7500.

why is it in this day and age there are still lots of people that don't own cameras? it's not hard to get an inexpensive one new that doesn't suck terribly or buy one that doesn't …

There are MIDI kits for the mac serial port (macman midiman for one), try to find one of those. You will also need MIDI software.

Maybe the button is faulty?

The only issue I have run into is on an old Powerbook 170. It suffered from black corners of the LCD when on for a long period of time. All my other powerbooks work fine. Mind y…

I'm running a Power Mac 7500 with a Sonnet Crescendo G3/500, 224MB RAM, 2 SCSI hard drives and Mac OS 9.1. It has been a faithful machine to me for the past 5 years. I will be lo…

I'll try to take a picture. I don't own a camera, but I can borrow one from work.

I kind of love the PCI PPC era because of the clones. Apple's decisions in this era as far as chassis layout and design is enough to make anyone dislike them on that basis alone an…

I sorta remember a fuse on the ADB port 5V line. Don't have a II cx to look at, but have a squint at the mobo for a little surface mount chip labelled F-something. There is also a …

Turned out great. Click to expand... Thanks for sharing a photo. :O

...but upgrading would require pulling money out of my MacBook savings!

Does "nbplkup" run on the server show up the 605 as a workstation?

have you tried just installing an ethernet card?

So MLA, what should I do with it? Click to expand... Well, it's certainly a good candidate for a mod. Considering how many Mac Pluses there are out there, I would suggest that …

Didn't there used to be a G4 daughterboard of some sort that could run 2 unbalanced G4 CPU's, i.e a 350 mhz and a 450 mhz. Always imagined that could be useful if you could find a…

Nope. No red button. Only two buttons near the PRAM battery.

How do you reset the MoBo? Click to expand... If memory serves me right, there is a red button that is labeled "PRAM RESET" on the motherboard. While the G3 is unplugged, hold …

Yes but the one near the processor Lights up and then turns off. This makes me think its the processor. Well whatever if it is. At the lab we have a few 350MHZ ZIFs How do you res…

I don't know, that was the way it came. What I think happened was the heat sink pulled away from the processor, so the processor with no cooling burnt itself out. The replacement I…