Thanks for the tip!

If you do, take *everything* electronic out, use the steel wool to clean only the components with rust on them while they're removed from the case, and wash them thoroughly before …

All three rectangular metal self resetting fuses F1 F2 F3 should measure about +26.5V on both ends, also SMT cap C40 at the + end. You can also inspect T1 T2 T3 to make sure no on…

Have you tried an OS X install with a fully functional internal optical drive? I've had the occasional glitch on my OS 9 sawtooth with firewire that otherwise runs fine under X. …

Have you tried an OS X install with a fully functional internal optical drive? I've had the occasional glitch on my OS 9 sawtooth with firewire that otherwise runs fine under X.

I tried all three ports including the internal. In the OS 9 system profiler, it does not show any devices, just a few bits of gibberish like "g45dv, 7hd5h" for the bus and some oth…

I think that the only G4 which shared the seperate Firewire board with the yosemite was the yikes. As far as I know, all sawtooth mobo's had the firewire fully integrated.

From what I've gleaned from teh intarwebz over the past week looking for potential fixes for my dead PBG4, it seems that FireWire failure was pretty common on at least the early Po…

Did you try the internal one as well?

I've read reports of dead FW ports on xlr8yourmac.com - the fix has been to get a FW PCI card then all is well.

It's back up for now, but it would be nice to figure out the cause. Thank goodness for being able to preserve users and applications, otherwise it would be considerably more painf…

My PowerBook G4 did the whole prohibitory-sign boot failure once or twice immediately before it refused to turn on ever again. Still not sure what died on it.

I'm home now and am in the process of a Archive and install of 10.3. It sucks but at least I won't have to reinstall my software. Strangely enough, I did not have to remove one o…

Probably the best looking G3 AIO I've ever seen! (i'm sorry, but I've always found them to be profoundly ugly, even back when they were new )

Doesn't sound good - cmd+v should be passed to the kernel, which would be the very first thing that gets loaded... if it's not even doing that... Try boot hd: or mac-boot from the …

Doesn't sound good - cmd+v should be passed to the kernel, which would be the very first thing that gets loaded... if it's not even doing that... Try boot hd: or mac-boot from the…

Yes, before the bong sound.

Are you holding the keys down as soon as you press the power button?

Try booting up in verbose mode (hold down command-v on boot) and see what message it gives you when it crashes. Click to expand... No response. It still does the same thing.

Try booting up in verbose mode (hold down command-v on boot) and see what message it gives you when it crashes.

Find an old Super 7/Slot 1/Slot A/Socket 370-friendly PC case and ATX power supply and you can mount a Gossamer-based board in one with little trouble. I thought about doing that,…

i dont think it can be enabled for both PCI and AGP cards, i think it has to be one or the other.

The process listing should have the path to the programme running. What's it look like? Also, have you tried checking the system logs?

Interesting stuff. I've never thought of booting from CardBus. I usually don't leave a card in when I power down (too many machines, too few peripherals), and if I need to boot fro…

Another note: If the CPU upgrade is a G4, you need to update the firmware to allow G4 upgrades. Sonnet should have an update utility on their web site. At least they did when I …