Recent content by mac-man6

The optical drive issue isn't related to the tray at all it seems. It seems the piece of an optical drive that goes up and through the hole in the disc was depositing some gooey substance on the discs. If there's no disc the tray opens and closes without issue, with a disc it goes back to its...

So I took a crack at the SSDs. Both SSDs had been cloned with SuperDuper to a drive formatted on the G5 with the Apple Partition Map, definitely not GUID or MBR.  The Intel 520 series 120gb - Would boot but had a kernel panic several times when starting up. I never booted successfully. The...

It's odd that they have such bad backwards compatibility especially when they sell them as great for speeding up old machines. When I find the other drives, I'll give them a shot and let you guys know which ones work and which don't. Thanks Unknown_K, answered pretty much all my questions. ...

Hello, I have a dual G5 1.8ghz. I was thinking of restoring and using it for light Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator work. This was identical to the computers I used in university and my first job in the print industry. Nostalgia aside, I'm having issues with three things. 1. My Powermac...

I had some time after a doctor's appointment and went into a thift store and this camera jumped right out at me. It came with a matching leather carrying case for $10 CAD. Even though this picture is from a  French site it only has English controls, mine must be a Canadian version because all...

Wow, that helps a lot! I thought I would seriously limit the card and not get the benefit in a PCI-e 2.0 x16 slot. It seems like max, I'd only lose a handful of frames.  I didn't make any decisions. I was just seeing what would work best. But after seeing that website, I think I'll just sit...

I was thinking about it and then I did the numbers comparing a used mac, with used ram, SSD and modern card vs. brand new build with a Ryzen and modern card. Your observations saved me a bunch of googling!

I'd love to boot the device and just see what's installed but I don't have any adapters to do so. Here's a cool review of a newer iPaq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm5omDCENPo.  I do have a PowerMac G5, would it be compatible? I was thinking of getting an older cheese grater intel Mac Pro...

I was walking through a local thrift store and found a large anti-static bag. I quickly checked the specs and it seemed better than the video card in my first Hackintosh/gaming PC (9800GT). I got it home and it works great, not a bad card and it seems like it was used in other macs so I should...

That's really neat. I know the indigogo has finished but do you still have some of those items if you pledged a certain amount? 

Hello, last week I did some thrift shop browsing and noticed a Newton OMP H1000. They realized it was an Apple and priced it accordingly at $89 CAD. I left it behind because it wasn't in the greatest cosmetic shape, it didn't have any cables or charger. I tried to turn it on but no luck, I...

To anyone reading, what would be some good preventative maintenance? Should I reapply the heat paste? http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.0_dp_pci.html http://lowendmac.com/2005/power-mac-g5-early-2005/

Hey congrats, I was going to post my conquest (I got mine today, it was free but I gave the seller a $15 doughnut shop gift card for it) but it's pretty much the same thing and I'm curious too. I never thought of an emulation machine. I used to use a machine like this when I first graduated...

Are you sure the speaker was reconnected after recapping?

I tried searching for the 4400 episode but couldn't find it. On a sidetone he does a fun video on his two EV cars