[] ]'> Leopard has no grafics acceleration for that card. That's all. Put another compatible card in the sawtooth and you'll be more happy with it. Click to expand... …

Magma answered my questions...nifty useful tools!

So those PCI-PCI expansion boxes are common? Was the 3400 the only Powerbook that was capable of such an expansion option? This is friggin' awesome!

Magma made one. I've seen things about them online like this. They show up on ebay occasionally. The PCI-PCI expansion boxes seem more common.

Aside from whatever identification strings and machine-specific features that may or may not be enabled in OF (i.e, video spanning), the iBook G4, PowerBook G4 Al, late-model eMac…

Sounds like it is a 'dead hd' given the circumstances you said. You could always try and take the drive out, and put it in an external enclosure to see if it is recognised on anoth…

I have an old edition, (2nd, I think) It's from 1994 and covers the very first Power Macs, so that's where I read it.

YEAH! I think I read that in Mac Secrets or something. I have 2 of the 5th edition of that book. It is a GREAT book. It even lists each Mac model. You can get the PDF of that …

This is more trivia now, but it used to be in the old days of System, and I think this is System 6 and before, you could really mess up a Mac by creating a file named .Sony.

Hah, I remember that about the .Sony driver now. Cool. Certainly doesn't ever hurt to rebuild the desktop Bunsen, might as well try it and automatically fix a few other problems …

... noting of course that in return for the bargain price, you accept the risk that it's DOA. Click to expand... Sixteen purchases from this seller, all but one ZIF cards, and …

Is there some specific reason behind that suggestion, Bunsen? / to rebuild the desktop Click to expand... It rang a vague bell with something I've encountered before.

but I've been having some trouble formatting a CF card Click to expand... Some CF and USB memory sticks can only be used with FAT16 or FAT32. They omit the DOS partition table …

Interesting. Anyone know why a 1.2 GB partition fails to format in disk utility then?

Standard HFS can go to 2Gig.

I use a piece of folded paperboard that fits VERY snugly against the flat side of the battery and the case stiffener where the original gasket would've gone. It requires a bit of e…

It's driver is on the hard disk. It's .Sony

There is no extension for the floppy drive. Its driver is built-into the ROM of the Mac, and may also be inside the system file somewhere. The CD-ROM has an extension. Neither l…

Honestly, the best way to use IIe software without a IIe (and the only one I know of that is guaranteed to be 100% legal) is the Apple IIe card for an LC I'm not sure how/if the I…

I'm pretty sure AppleWin has what youre after.http://applewin.berlios.de Click to expand... Cheers for that - does indeed look like it will fit the bill - had a quick play with i…

i have ran into these issues before, sometimes the driver extension can get messed up, sometimes it can be the eject system getting gummed up, or a bad cable connection. i think i…

Honestly, the best way to use IIe software without a IIe (and the only one I know of that is guaranteed to be 100% legal) is the Apple IIe card for an LC. LCs are easy to find and …

I had been planning on putting a fresh copy of an OS on there, and I ended up putting 8.5 on my G3. Ejecting floppies doesn't appear to be a problem any more. I really wonder if …

I would never have thought of that. Is there some specific reason behind that suggestion, Bunsen? Are you suggesting to rebuild the desktop on the HD or the floppy, or both?

Try rebuilding your desktop.