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    Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated

    Just to necropost a bit here. My VRM from Artmix is still busted. He's had it since September "waiting for parts". No updates unless I pester him on ebay messaging. More of a warning to those who are thinking of buying from him. If repairs are ever needed, ymmv.
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    Affordable graphics card upgrade options for G4 Cube

    I (personally) found them to be very hot. For the ~$20 for a new old stock fan.. why take the risk?
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    Bondi Blue CD hints?

    Make sure everything is seated properly. Any chance a disc is stuck? (Should be able to put a paper clip in the front). Worse case. They’re actually not that bad to replace IMO. (vs. The slot load models). Just fleabay a PC laptop CDRom (or CDRW or even a DVD) IDE drive. Key is IDE. The...
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    Interest in adapting 744x to 7400?

    Hey Herd.. is that something I can pay you for (a 1ghz+ upgrade for the Cube?.. ) Currently waiting on my Artmix VRM to get fixed so I can use a Sonnet 1ghz without letting out the smoke. I have a few spare stock 450 CPU cards that could be used as a donor card.. I could even send you the...
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    Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated

    I mean.. if he were to create a list.. would it really be that large? There's only a handful of GPUs that fit the Cube.. 7000, 7200, 8500, 9000/9200. Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 3, 6200. Most are hard to find today. CPU upgrades could be limited to single core models, (outside of custom modules...
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    Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated

    I am a bit curious how a hot 9000 potentially BBQ’d the VRM then. Yeah I’m annoyed. Maybe I’m the a-hole here. I’ll pay to get it fixed. Don’t have much choice really unless I want to eat $200+ Anywho. Gauging by the response here. I’m not being reasonable with him. Lesson learned about not...
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    Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated

    Hardly. When I buy a VRM that claims to allow these upgrades. I expect it to function for more than 30 minutes. Call me crazy I guess.
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    Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated

    How about a warranty on his product?
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    Cube Owners: Artmix VRM II available, slightly updated

    Bumping. I ordered one. Received. Popped into a Cube with a Radeon 9000 and a sonnet 1ghz. Ran Quake 3 for 30 mins and my Cube shut off. Smelled burning. Great. Unplugged everything. Radeon was hotter than hell.. clearly too hot for a Cube. So swapped to a GeForce 2. Stock VRM boots. So the...
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    Elegant SSD options for G4 Cube

    Correction. It looks like it’s a perfect fit. But it causes the IDE cable and Power to pop out a half inch or so. So the airport bracket no longer fits. Boo.
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    Elegant SSD options for G4 Cube

    This Amazon one fits like a glove. Combined with the cheapy sata-ide bridge, its almost a perfect fit and the 3 screw holes are there for the heatsink chunk to screw in properly. Probably because the external sata connector is on the far side vs. the middle like almost every other bracket...
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    Cube VRM - bump up components

    Sorry to necropost, but any chance you have a part number of the newer FET you used?
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    Replacement SCSI DVD rom - discs won't mount

    SpeedTools did the trick. Thanks! (patched Apple driver kept bombing on startup even with other CD Extensions disabled. FWB didn't seem to work either).
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    Replacement SCSI DVD rom - discs won't mount

    Hi all, Recently replaced the busted (SCSI) CDROM in my Performa 6360 with some NOS Pioneer DVD Rom off of fleabay. Drive detects, I can boot OS 9.0.4 installer from it (it installs OS9 from it no problem), but it won't mount inserted discs after. I can run Apple System Profiler, it "sees" the...
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    Studio display - bad caps?

    Hey.. so quick update. Cap replacement did squat. Same "pulsing" sound. Quicksilver had an AC Bel? PSU inside. I did plug the "new" monitor into the QS first.. so, I guess possible that it broke something? You'd think it'd be some sort of cap/resistor/diode that I could change out on the...
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    Studio display - bad caps?

    Thanks for the suggestions, couple of thoughts; With two monitors doing the same thing (and they were known to work previously), we can probably rule out the ADC cable. Similar thought to the PSU/Temperature since there's 2 desktops + adapter all exhibiting the same issue I did teardown the...
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    Studio display - bad caps?

    Hi, Had a working 17 inch LCD Studio Display which I move between a Cube and Dual CPU G4.. been working fine for years. Now, if the monitor is connected to either the Cube or the G4 Tower, both computers won't power on. I can hear an electronic "chirp" from the power supply area on the G4 tower...
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    Aspect correction software?

    Hi, picked up a beat up Mini 1.25.. cleaned it up, hooked up to my main PCs monitor under another input.  Runs OS9/10 @ 1920x1080. Obviously the 32mb Radeon isn't going to be able to do games at that resolution.. issue is when I pick something like 1024x768 it's stretching it wide. Since I'm...
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