PowerPCs will boot from USB: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384 http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061017084322177 You can also use anothe…

Good thing is that the processors aren't too expensive. http://cgi.ebay.com/PAIR-OF-APPLE-POWERMAC-G5-2-0Ghz-PROCESSORS-630-6425_W0QQitemZ270463905178QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCPUs?hash=…

and are you going to move to Macpro..? do you see benefits of ditching your machine in favor of a macpro (besides speed)...? How often do you buy Mac's? Jim Click to expand...…

Oh.... Does anyone have a copy of SMCfanControl for pre-intel machines? I'd like to bump up the fan speed see is it due to heat... might be a dry joint.

Well, there's 4Gb of ram in there spread over six sticks - that's how it arrived. Four of them seem to be stock Samsung stuff (what Apple seems to use) and the other two are Kings…

It does sound like a bad CPU or bad RAM, unfortunately. If you have spare DDR anywhere, I would try that first. The heat-related symptoms does lead me to suspect that it's probably…

And the competition for best thrift score ever hots up. Congratulations. Click to expand... You conjugated that verb incorrectly. Fail. Click to expand... I guess he mean…

Silly question, but did you try replacing the PRAM battery? Click to expand... Yep. I actually took out the PCI cards and it works fine...

Silly question, but did you try replacing the PRAM battery?

It is a Mac edition card. I have a Sawtooth G4 with the same card that runs Leopard as my server. Hopefully this will be come my OS9 gaming machine (if I can find a cheap LCD).

i will have pictures in a few days, it probably won't be powered on though

That or it's an Australian thing. Cool conquest anyways - plan on taking any pictures?

And the competition for best thrift score ever hots up. Congratulations. Click to expand... You conjugated that verb incorrectly. Fail.

This pic gives a good sense of the mess the machine was in. It's still hard to believe it came up so well with just a clean.

And the competition for best thrift score ever hots up. Congratulations.

what did you use to burn the DVD? and did you make sure that it was set to burn a bootable DVD? Click to expand... I downloaded the Yellow Dog 6.2 DVD ISO, which is supposed to…

yeah, it came w/ the straw... thats how i knew what it was (well, that and the command key)

Here's a video for those interested - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPbXm12lWg

what straw? it came only with the laptop and power cord Click to expand... This: { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Pr…

Of course. Should just need to replace the damaged components and it will be good as new. Are you good with a soldering iron? Dr. Lee's document should be useful here.

* thinks of the list of Procrastinations-in-Progress™ . . . :I * * leaves quietly * Click to expand... * EEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [:I] ]'> * * leaves quiet…

That's an amazing haul! Especially with all the packaging. Congrats :approve:

i have already seen those websites, but thanks anyway. i really need to figure out how to turn it on, i cannot find that online.

info on your mac from the early mac serial number decoder site: Your Macintosh 512e (M0001E), with serial number F6403GUM0001E, was the 4040th manufactured during the 40th week of…

Try here and here for some info. It looks quite cool! :O