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Help needed- Obscure issue with Powerbook Pismo G3. Black Square on Startup OSX 10.4.11
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For upgrading the Pismo CPU there are a few options. A faster version of the same G3 (750S or 750L) can be installed to achieve...
Yesterday at 4:29 PM
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Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated
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Measuring the total power used by a graphics card is more complicated, but I saw a nice project where someone is gathering actual data...
Thursday at 3:06 PM
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PowerBook G4 Titanium (400 MHz) cache chip replacement
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I think the problem is more likely to be a bad solder joint. If you can get the board set up in a way that you can test it on the...
Tuesday at 1:40 PM
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5 Power Macs configured by AVID
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Nice find! Thanks for sharing. Do you have plans for it?
Jun 29, 2025
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QS '02 CPU upgrade issues
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What CPU does it have? I would guess that a 1.4GHz upgrade uses a 7455, and if so it would not need anything changed in the firmware.
Jun 22, 2025
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How did the PowerPC 603 / 5200 at 75mhz compare to PC:s (486/Pentium)?
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If quake is your measure of daily usage, then yes, the only thing faster than a pentiumTM is another one with more cache. My point is...
Jun 21, 2025
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How did the PowerPC 603 / 5200 at 75mhz compare to PC:s (486/Pentium)?
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I was curious so I looked and the dnet statistics server is still up: cgi.distributed.net/speed/ You can pull up graphs like this...
Jun 20, 2025
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How did the PowerPC 603 / 5200 at 75mhz compare to PC:s (486/Pentium)?
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Respectfully, I disagree. I think that would be one of the worst ways. Even among contemporary x86 chips, quake is notorious for...
Jun 20, 2025
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Mac G4 Cube graphic card options
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There is still a lot of good info in archives of cubeowner.com
Jun 15, 2025
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A Digital Audio restore/upgrade
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G3/G4/G5 Power Mac, iMac & eMac
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I thought I'd share a little weekend project here. I picked up a "dead" Digital Audio tower and below are some steps I took to restore...
Jun 12, 2025
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G4 Quicksilver questions
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I can't think of any issues in particular; these are generally nice and reliable. I'd look at the usual things to check on a used...
Jun 11, 2025
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Powerbook G4 12" trouble booting from USB
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Are you using a little thumb drive, or a whole disc? If the port works with other devices, it could be that it can't power the drive...
Jun 11, 2025
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iMac G3 (Rev A -> C) G4 CPU Upgrade
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With a few versions to compare, that location seems to agree with the cache speed. 133MHz 0x86, 150MHz 0x98, 167MHz 0xB1. Maybe 0xFC...
Jun 1, 2025
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iMac G3 (Rev A -> C) G4 CPU Upgrade
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Nice work! What does the Lombard EEPROM dump look like? If the Wallstreet CPU had cache chips rated for 150MHz, what is the speed...
May 31, 2025
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iMac G3 (Rev A -> C) G4 CPU Upgrade
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Take a look at "MPCPCMEC.pdf" as this seems to be the closest documentation to what you have. For example, it says: "The Software...
May 29, 2025
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