i managed to flash one of my video cards an nvidia geforce 3 ti 200 for the quicksilver
it works just fine
but when the Qs boots and displays the grey apple screen said screen is al garbelded
is there a reason for this and something i can do about it ?
the QS is now humming...
picked up a 2001 quicksilver recently with a new psu
512 mb of ram 60 gig hd and a sad sad ati rage 128 16 mb video card for 50 euro
733 mhz
i upgrade the ram to 1 gig when i got it home
and other then the sad excuse for a video card which i want to replace its...
recently i got my hands on a 2001 QS 733 with a vile ati rage 128 pro card with a piddly 16 mb ram
and the rage 128 just decided to die ...typical
as it happens i actually happen to have four spare video cards 3 agp and one pci
an radeon 7000 32 mb ( pci )
an ati...
just the chip and the voltage regulator from the IBM server it came from not a whoel work station
so yes i got my hands on a pentium 3 xeon 1266 mhz 512 kb l2 133 mhz fsb 1,45 V
which forms the heart of my franken pc slapped together from the parts of at least 3 other...
i have a wallstreet wel several wallstreets and unfortunaly no means of getting data from their hard drives other then a zip disk module ( but no zip disks ...go figure)
and i have been seeing several reasonable prices usb 2.0 cardbus cards from sitecom and trust
before i buy...
now this ere emac i got my hands on has a problem ( doesnt it always ?)
it works fine other for the fact that it spits out any cd i put in there orginal or cd-r dvd or audio it spins them around for a bit and then ejects them
fortunally i have an external dvd writer which reads...
no not an asus EEE but an emac
700 mhz 640 mb ram 40 gig hd and a wonky combo drive you wil hear more about
and a ibm thinkpad 700 mhz no adapter no hd but a gorgeous keyboard
...i think i have a new favorite
bought a brand new intel imac core 2 duo 17 inch
i was going for a 20 inch aluminium imac
but i saw this white monster for 899 blow out price because it was the last one they had in stock and i went for that
so far i am happy withit apart from that damn build in i sight camera
i have a small problem that cropped up recently with my tiger cd's
i get an error when the installer checks the first cd and it says the cd si damaged or dirty when i pull it out there si nothing on the disk its as clean as can be
if i press through with the installation it wil half...
has gone from godawfull system 6 to system 7.0.1
which is equally awfull but less awfull at least i got more choice in software now it reads floppies with out whining too much ( getting 7 took a herculenan task of digging my pm 6100 up from its coffin formatting 6 floppies using...
my ibooks are quite frankly driving me to the brink of what is left of my sanity
i have been busy for a week to try and get them online ( usinga direct cable modem line no routers or anything in between just a straight cable)
and not a bloody thing happens
via my imac G5 it...
apart from the se\30 i also managed to bring in
a 4400 ( free )
a IIvx ( free)
2 external scsi cd rewriters one lacie one plextor
photoshop elements
toast 5
and several games including sim city sim city 2000 full throttle klingon honor guard myst
i finally got my hands on a much vaunted se\30
i dont car emuch for the image writer but it comes with it
it seems to be running system 7 with software still on it
...right break out the tools i am going to install a scsi cdr in it
i got a 500 mhz ibook here which i orginally intented to buy to swap the logic board out and put it in my 800 mhz
but i am having second thoughts now the 800 mhz is working just fine with a shim
and i am looking in to the posibilites of getting this 500 mhz working again
it...
(think its easy to think crap titles up like this ? )
anyway i got a friend who has a mini who seems to be in a spot of trouble i dont have the mini on hand but she told me the mini is stuck in a restart loop
computer keeps requesting to restart before the log in screen is reached...
got my hands on a ibook 500 mhz with out an hd and a wonky cd drive for 60 euro
best of all its logic board is in fine working condition
with some luck i can swap it out in to my 800 mhz ibook
if not il need to scrounge up a 2,5 hd
i stumbeld about a cube (not mine btw )
who had an interesting problem its dvd player was set to region 1 and sertting it to region 2 was easy enough except it needed to reboot
it reboots goes to open firmware and then you manually have to typ ein mac-boot where it greets...
i have a 12 inch ibook G3 800 mhz who has ( surprise surprise ) the dreaded logic board failure desease its running now with a shim made of 2 cd's who are so large the under side is bulging ( that cant be good ) and i plan to either make a proper metal shim or reach for the...
i got 2 new ones
7 inch and a whopping 12 incher
and they come with cables now
not only that fullsoftware cd's ms dos floppies system utilities and manuals as well
now all i need is a beige G3 to stuff all this in
does the 7 incher fit in a tam ?