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Congrats! I love the Plus.

Hmmm. Maybe it's a dubstep.

True. That's why I went with the MDD. But a max-spec machine that doesn't go to sleep properly nor open its optical drive unless you manually pry open the shiny drive door and manually push the button with a ball-point pen nor set screen resolution properly nor run applications in a way that...

I've not seen this thread before. Awesome!

This thread is shaping up to go quite well with the thread about making my MDD OS9 bootable. I think both of them are good lessons for anyone searching for a long-term OS 9 box. In retrospect, I would encourage anyone looking for a long-term OS 9 machine to get a box that doesn't require a...

I would very much appreciate any pictures you could provide. Before and after pics. Pics of the components. Pics of the soldering process. I have several Mac Pluses that need maintenance, and the more information about how you went about doing this process, what tools you used, etc. would be...

Software testing update: Oni MDD 1.25Ghz SP G4 OS 9.2.2: Ran installer. App started, opening cutscenes played. When it cut to the main menu, all I had was a black screen. Music played, but had to force quit. Couldn't see the cursor after the force quit, and had to randomly click around the...

According to lowendmac.com, the OS 9 compatible 800Mhz iMac G4 (Jul 2002) had a 17" screen. The second 800Mhz model (Feb 2003) was the low-end model and had a 15" screen. The high-end 17" model was bumped to 1Ghz. Neither could boot in OS 9.

Could it be the IVAD cable?

Of course, running Apple hardware test didn't come to mind until after I'd did some blowdrying. No results yet from the blowdrying, but only did it for five minutes or so.

I'm suspecting similar capacitor problems with my 700Mhz eMac are causing the screen problems discussed in this thread. Tonight I got out the hairdryer to test, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Should I just blow-dry stuff while it's running? To do that, I'd have to take off the white...

Okay, so I played around some more and got the NetBoot image to work. Same deal in the monitors control panel, 1024x768 only. I did test my copy of Syndicate, and it runs at 640x480 in the middle of the screen with black bars all around (although the menu bar stays at the top where it belongs)...

Yeah, I actually dropped in the new ROM before I tried it the first time. I'll keep fiddling, but unless I can get my hand on better disks, I'm about to call this a failed experiment.

All of you are being super helpful. I couldn't ask for a better community. The 3.5 drivers dropped into the system folder and were recognized as extensions and placed accordingly. They do not cause a crash. They also don't do any good. Still limited to 1024x768 in the Monitors control panel...

Ha! CC_333 wins the prize! Monitors shows only 1024x768 as an option, so even if it's not the sleep problem, I definitely need a driver update. I know USB devices can cause the problem, in particular my thumb drive, but I've already dealt with that one, so I'm pretty sure it's the video card...

Well, another incompatibility with OS 9 pops up. It won't go to sleep properly. It goes to sleep, but the fans keep running (and as we all know, MDD fans are not quiet). It says there's a piece of hardware installed that's not compatible with sleep, and checking the system profiler, it appears...

To my knowledge, there was no ATI Accelerator extension, although I'm not looking at it ATM. I didn't have to turn off or disable any extensions to get it to work.

This whole experience has gotten me thinking about how useful it would be to have an online wiki for the various versions and pieces of System 9.x. It would list: All the various versions of OS 9.x and when and how they were released. Photos of CDs with part numbers, etc. Box scans with...

Okay, so I'm able to boot with all extensions on. I switched out the PC2700 RAM that was causing AHT to failboot, and put in the one 256MB PC2600 stick that passed AHT. So I'm at stock RAM levels right now, but, whatever. After I did that I turned off all the extensions and worked up to a...

If you've ever used Ex Post Facto to install a not-officially-supported version of OS X on a machine, you know how I feel right now. If you're looking for an OS 9 box, there definitely is merit to getting a machine that can boot from a retail OS 9. They're much more common than whatever...