all fixed now I had to press the magic reset button next to the pram battery and a phone call to macupgrades where I got the Sonnet 1.8Ghz prosessor and they advised to select the …

What!?? Why did they do that? Click to expand... Control. The US government is scared of cryptography and hence they wanted the monopoly on machines that could decipher encodi…

What!?? Why did they do that? Click to expand... Control. The US government is scared of cryptography and hence they wanted the monopoly on machines that could decipher encodi…

What!?? Why did they do that?

... The longterm puzzle is to find a Gefen EXT-VGA-2-ADC adapter so that they can share a 17" ADC Studio Display. Click to expand... eBay's @#$%&* software fritzed on m…

The PMU of the Sawtooth and later Macs is a little more all-encompassing than the PMUs of older PowerBooks. Newer PMUs are rather more wide-ranging, and Apple describes them as 'c…

does that switch do the same or more ? Click to expand... Well, er, it didn't have a sign on it saying "Do not press this button".....

I hit the reset button by the pram battery and it started to work ( well at least it's starting up now) I still got to figure out why Leopard is not booting what is that reset but…

The video output is an issue with the Processor, I did test with a good I/O Board. The machine won't power on without a good I/O i thought??? Click to expand... That's what I w…

Start back tracking. My G3 B+W refused to start, I opened it up and there is a little reset switch on the motherboard, I pushed that and it burst into life. I disassembled the fro…

The video output is an issue with the Processor, I did test with a good I/O Board. The machine won't power on without a good I/O i thought??? I repair power supplies for the Lisa,…

I remember that...brings back memories from Grade 9. (when the G4 first came out, and the US Govt prevented them from exporting it)

Unfortunately, I don't have any spare I/O boards (I presume you mean the main I/O daughter card - not a parallel card for the expansion slots). The video out problem might just be…

Yikes. Power Mac G4 - the first personal computer classified as munitions and under export restriction because of its power. Click to expand...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_n10131702 Was the Powermac G4 a super computer? It depends whose definition you use. Click to expand... It was a gam…

I'm using Leopard on my dad's brand new iMac right now, and I honestly cannot see myself installing it on any of my computers, ever. Especially not one that could run OS9 as nicely…

That is simply amazing. I am glad I just got a G4 ZIF for one of my G3 Powermacs. Installing Leopard will be added to my 'to do' list.

Gefen Click to expand... Griffin? with an 83MHz-rated Grackle and Rev. F ROM. So, it runs 416MHz on an 83MHz bus Click to expand... I wish I could find a beige wit…

I just caught up on this thread. I'm going to have to dig up some of my supposedly "dead" beige motherboards and try TechTool on them. Thanks for the tip Driverguru. Meanwhile: …

Thanks for all the responses! I have one 2400c completely disassembled, and have found one bad fuse out of like 11. I'll be looking into replacing that. Its the fuse right by the H…

Now if only someone would come forward with a schematic for the power board, I would be really happy, as I could fix the dead ones I have without having to totally replace them. …

One of mine did the deathbead GLOD thing, where it would work sometimes and then degrade, before finally not cooperating at all. A new power board cured that problem. I figured tha…

Sonnet works (for instance, the 500 MHz Encore) from 8.1 to 10.4 with XPostFacto. Click to expand... But this is for the beige, right? Click to expand... Not just that. Thi…

My B/W G3 has a Sonnet G4/400 in it an so far the only thing that needed to be installed was a firmware patch to allow G4 processor upgrades. Other than that no drivers were necce…

I may purchase another identical zif module than mine to see if it performs better, lets hope yes. Only this model guarantee the compatibility I need.