I was playing around with the Emac that did boot and the video came on. It boots to the loading screen and stays there. The apple screen with the spinning pinwheel. Left it runn…

An IrDA port is just a serial port, I think, so it should be trivial to programme. The bondi iMac I took apart certainly had its IrDA ports connected to a standard mini-DIN serial …

See if you can get one working unit. From there see if the problems are related to one specific component. The G3 iMacs commonly bad flyback transformers which would allow the comp…

Reseat your RAM. My iBook wouldn't boot because its ram stick somehow came loose. Usually when RAM is in halfway it will blink the sleep light.

I came across a pile of emacs. They had been tossed off a truck, I picked up a couple of them as I dumped my stuff off. They are 2005 models with 1.42ghz cpu's. . THey are c…

now that i think about it, I am probably wrong because i seem to remember it being a bug with xpostfacto

This link sources a few different places you can get it. Also for a few different Apple laptops. I went with Digikey. http://www.jkllamps.com/laptop.cfm VERY inexpensive and th…

you would have to use os 9 because it is disabled in osx Click to expand... Are you sure? I've never used it but I have IrDA options in Network system preferences and Internet…

you would have to use os 9 because it is disabled in osx

So, a few days ago, my PowerBook G4 started acting funny, not wanting to sleep, freezing on waking from sleep, etc. Then finally, it locked up during the boot sequence and never ca…

Hell, my newton used to control my Sony TV... I bet it can be done...

Where did you get the bulb?

There was a utility to do this with Windows laptops I saw a while ago... can't remember the name.

I thought you meant, that the Battery Reset was not written for the Clamshell. Excuse me while I go shoot myself.

That battery reset actually is written for the clamshell as well. But thats the only iBook compatible. Click to expand... I have no idea what you're saying. The OP was talking …

Like trick it into thinking your sending a file but it is actually the code to change the the channel or something.

You might need some sort of direct hardware access to do that because it isn't a typical serial signal. I really don't know where to start, though. IrDA can also receive IR signa…

In the hacks section of applefritter there is a guy who put an iMac into a 21" monitor. I had forgotten all about it untill this thread!

My thoughts exactly. I had Leopard on my dual 450 G4 with 1.12GB of ram and the Radeon 7000, it was alright, but it gets annoying after a while. Leopard seems to chew on hard drive…

Fabulous. I have a mac display to VGA adapter sitting here as we speak. So I could use a standard display.

That battery reset actually is written for the clamshell as well. But thats the only iBook compatible.

The only thing is, if you're using an old Apple display, the monitor must be a multisync monitor, ie: a Multiple Scan or AppleVision Display. If you're using a third party SVGA mo…

Tried it on a G4 450 with PCI Radeon Mac Edition + 1GB RAM. It ran like an absolute dog compared to 10.4. It's not especially fast on my 1.33 Ghz G4 and that's way above the spec…

AFAIK, there is no reset app on the clamshell -- the one that I'm familiar with works with the earlier G3 powerbooks. On the clamshell, only an extension gets installed, and it's …

The flickering is a sign of insufficient voltage. Either the battery is marginal, or the power regulator board has a problem. The crashing could also be due to power instability. …