Thank you for responding, everybody. I'm sorry I haven't got back.
Update: RAM and video card change show no difference in behavior.
I hate saying things like "known good RAM" when we can't test anything more than electrical connections or use built in memtest. This leaves out possibilities of...
I feel like that's going to start to be a recurring theme in these machines, eh?
A-What's it doing?
B-Well I plug in the keyboard and this happens
*Water pours out of the speakers*
A-Let's try swapping the RAM
I kid, but the wild behavior in this machine is something else. When it came to...
Quick Stats:
Power Mac G4 MDD FW800
1.42 DP
2 GB Ram
OS X 10.4.11
The Problem: Every single game I try to install from disk fails to load after a successful install.
Seriously! Halo: Combat Evolved (both PPC and Universal), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, True Crime, Max Payne...ALL BUMS...
See?! This is a huge reason for computers with blinkenlights. Just some kind of status would set the mind at ease.
Anyway...crazy concept...have you tried to install OS 9? It has a different AirPort client than X. Maybe first install 9.2.2 and get everything all setup, then install 10.4.11 to...
When you're staring at the business end of a 20 year old machine, I reccon anything will be better than the dried out and brittle gunk hiding under any paltry heatsink it may have (I'm looking at you 630CD > :( ). I get plenty of G4 'Books my way and every one of them gets new paste if I...
I currently have an unsecured guest network for my original Airport cards for when I just need some gophering or a visit into the forums. The catch is that the guest network is isolated from the NAS so I leave an airport card in the G4 Cube and turn on the sharing if I need to do some software...
You guys are great. I love the high level of detail everybody brings to the boards. Your technical data is top notch and vital to keeping these things alive.
However, in my line of work, "sea stories" are traded like a valuable commodity. And again, you guys deliver!
Bibilit, I get it. It's...
The meat of this post is because I keep getting beat out of auctions on ebay and I'm wondering how you all got into your Newts.
Do you just keep increasing your budget till the stars align? Do you get lucky and find one in a junk heap? Are you one of a declining few that still carries your...
It certainly does. About a dozen. I pushed around some alcohol and cotton to try to get some of the more boogery joints cleaned up, but I'm sure that's just evidence they need complete replacing. This poor thing may need to back burner for a while.
Then again, the on-board video should be fine...
Wow! All that's really informative. I don't have that chunky adapter for using the onboard video, but I believe I can find one somewhere nearby.
At any rate, my original question wasn't about identifying the cards in the system, but it was about fixing the cards. Do these sort of things respond...
Has anybody got any experience breathing life into aging video cards? I've got this WGS with a pair of older cards. The PDS model gives me NO sign of life, but the NuBus card pumps out 640x480 through a DB-15 at 8-bit color. The system profiler in System 7.6.1 seems to not care at all about the...