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I own a few Power Computing models as well, but have not yet powered any up, so this is of interest to me. However, something occurred to me. If you cannot display video out, check to see if there is any vram. No vram most likely will result in no video. Or it could even be faulty vram ...

G3 Beiges are great machines to play with. I have one that I setup to play movies on for a short while using the ultra rare Bordeaux card and 6mb of vram. On a 21 inch Sony flat tube screen, running 9.2.1, Star Wars episode 1 looked incredible. It did stutter sometimes, but that was more...

Absolutely will give that a try! I had a bunch of games I liked on it and would like to get it going again. The Lombard is a nice little machine that doesn’t get the love it deserves.

Yeah. It was a recycle unit that I picked up. I suspect that the heat issue may have helped it along to my hands. Ideally, I would have preferred a thicker chunk of copper, but you are very much correct. It has been a bit of an experimental machine for me. It has 9.2.2 and a cribbed...

I have a 333 mhz Lombard that was running hot. The fan ram all the time. I had some arctic silver cpu paste and a very thin sheet of copper at hand, so I removed the old pad on the heat sink and “glued” three or four carefully cut strips of the sheeting together with the arctic silver. I put a...

Hooray! It is alive! All specs are the same as I listed, with the exception of 64 more mega of ram. It is running 8.5. It is a snapshot in time. It was made in Singapore, sold and used there, and brought to Tacoma, Wa. Replacing the battery brought me the happy mac sound and booted right up...

Well, it looks like it is my turn to share my most recent acquisition! Tonight at midnight, after getting off from work, I took a friend to the bank atm and then returned them to their apartment complex. On my way out of the complex I saw what looked like a light colored box sitting in the dark...

just a couple of possibilities here for your consideration. If you haven't already done so, you may wish to see if the SCSI data cable is seated properly. Once upon a time that plagued me on an IBM ps2 8580. Also, another possibility is that your machine has suffered a data cable failure. I...

Well, here is my two cents worth on your dead mini. I was about to suggest that you try a different drive to see if it was a HD data cable issue. I had one go bad once, just how I do not know. It's just wires, right? Ha. The drive was good, just as yours is, and the machine worked fine until I...

Oh yes. It is very real . Before I got my units, Chris , the former mac guru at REPC in Seattle smirked a bit and handed one over for me to sniff. I about burned my nose out. It is kinda like scorched electric gym socks. He said that some had the smell,and to get rid of it you had to get another...

I never tried to run mine with out the personality card. If you fire it up without the wings card , or whichever one you have, it might freeze up. If that is what you mean by removing the card.

it could be a component issue. If you are using the second mobo, and have transferred all the components from the other board, that is to say the ram, CPU, video ram if any, any PCI bus cards, and the problem persists, then it is likely one of two problems, considering the exhaustive work you...

I have a few of the stinkers. The former mac guru of RE-PC in Seattle, Chris, sold a few to me. they were nice machines, if you can ignore the keyboards . however, I must ask if you can provide a closeup of the sticker with the black apple logo on it, which is on the left hand upper corner of...

Is that a left-handed AEK?

I have a couple of bmt G3s. One is a rev c server 333mhz board in a 233 case. I last had it stoked with a gigabit eth card, an atto SCSI controller, and a usb-FireWire card. I did run a 16mb vid card in it , in place of the USB card, but never encountered any problems with it not playing nice...

My 8500 started life as a 120mhz machine. I was able to get it from well known Seattle computer recycler REPC for a superb price. I fired it up and discovered it is sporting a g3 sonnet at 550mhz. It will be my appleip server as soon as I dig one of my 50gb scsis out of its hidey hole and clone...

That is a nice one. Good speed and all. However, as with three of my Power Computing machines, there could be a G3 upgrade hiding inside. Addendum. The 8500-180 has a 604e, so I dont think I would have a problem trying out my 180mp. It shouldn't be a problem for a 604e in your machine. But I...

Hey Jessenator, do you have a newer model of powercomputing computer that you could test the CPU in? I neglected to consider that the card itself could have an issue. A power tower pro, i think, might be useful in checking CPU functionality. Some time back i ran across a small list of CPU...

I found the thread, it is an 8500 board in a desktop case. The thread is "Odd Power Macintosh 7xxx? Setup" from hyperneogeo. The CPU is an overclocked 604ev, not 604e. I should have gone looking first before blabbing. But that raises a couple of questions. 1. Can the 8500 actually run an ev, or...

With regards to the 604e running on the 85/9500, I can't really say. I believe there is a thread on the board that shows a crossover 8500 prototype running a 604e. It could be a revision change, as they went forward into the next model line, to test out CPU hardware. That board may or may not be...