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Is it possible to loosen the screen hinges without replacing them? I have a 1Ghz Ti where the hinges have started to stiffen up while it's in use, to the point where I can't close the lid until it cools down.

Does anybody still have Thomas McQuitty's modified OS9 Belkin drivers for the Netgear MA101 Wifi bridge? There's not many references about this anymore but he wrote a guide on modifying the OSX drivers here, but doesn't mention the required OS9 modifications. Low End Mac and an old Apple...

Hello! I'm finishing a new application called Conversant, it's a chat room/messenger application for Macintosh. There's some small bugs I'm aware of already but I wanted to get some feedback on pain points and any issues that may occur during use. It's very simple at this stage, and is only...

Over the last few weeks I have been building LegacyAI, which is a ChatGPT client built specifically for Mac OS 9. LegacyAI allows you to access OpenAI's ChatGPT from your Mac OS 9 Desktop. You can choose AI models, save conversations, and can set up your own customised proxy server (if...

I managed to get a sage G3 iMac (450Mhz) for $25 but it won't power on. I haven't tried much yet, and plan on leaving it plugged in for the next few days to see if that can bring some life into it. I noticed that as soon as I plug in the power cable it starts making a ticking noise towards the...

After years of neglect I finally pulled my SE FD/HD out of the closet, opened it up and gave it a brief clean. It looks surprisingly good after a thorough air dusting, and I can't see evidence of the capacitors leaking yet. I'm going to re-cap it and will give it a good alcohol clean when I do...

I noticed that this ground(?) wire is almost completely loose after disassembling my SE. Can I touch/tighten this without having to discharge the CRT? It connects to the CRT neck board.

I managed to get a PC Compatibility card (PCI) for $20 (unsure of the exact details of it, it's either 100Mhz or 160Mhz). I installed it in my MDD because I no longer have any early PPC machines with PCI and it mostly works. The PC card boots and runs, can switch to and from the system and the...

I have two iMacs that have arcing issues and would like to order replacement flyback transformers and get them installed. The iMac G3 500Mhz (arcing issues) along with my Flower Power 500 (no arcing issues) both use the LG 6174Z1017H. I recently acquired a Graphite iMac 600 (Summer 2001) which...

I'm recapping all of my machines at the moment and have noticed the following on a PM6100, Centris and a Macintosh Portable. Part of the pads appear to be eaten away, will I need to expose the traces and repair the connection for these or should they be ok?

I have a Power Mac 6100/60 with a G3 upgrade upgrade card and have been trying to figure out how to increase the Bus speed after an interesting comment from @Trash80toHP_Mini. In the past I believe this was achieved by either replacing an oscillator with a higher frequency replacement, or by...

From what I have found it seems that SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI have ~2MB/s read and write vs ~5MB/s (correct me if I am wrong) on an old SCSI HD. What would be the fastest performing drive type on a SCSI Power Mac, is there anything I am missing?

Does anyone know of a hack that will allow an AV/Display card to work with the Crescendo G3 card? From what I've been able to find the only reason support was disabled was because of the limited space in the 6100 and heat issues. It works fine but the CPU extension disables itself once it loads...

I recently installed three small fans inside my iMac G3 to improve airflow and cooling and everything was fine. After that I thought I'd add one more running at 5v to cool one last point, and after that I noticed strange variations in clock speeds after booting. After installing the fourth fan...

Is there a way to increase the 136MB RAM limit in the Power Mac 6100 and 7100? I have a bunch of 128MB EDO sticks that work in these machines but nothing above 136MB is recognised. Are there any hacks that can be done to change this or is it locked in with the default CPU specs? I have a G3...

Does anyone have the drivers for this card? It's unrecognized by my system and I can't find the drivers anywhere :(

I've finally got my hands on a Power Mac 7100 with a CPU upgrade but can't screen change resolutions. I have tried two LCD monitors (one with a native resolution of 1024x768), and a ViewSonic CRT with a native resolution of 1600x1200. I have tried several NUBUS cards and at the moment am...

Hello, I've been trying to get the internal Ethernet card working on my PowerBook, It's a Farallon card that plugs directly into the motherboard. I previously had the driver for this and tested that it worked, but lost the system a while back when I wiped one of my drives. I've searched all...

Hello, After becoming increasingly frustrated with OSX I've revived my iMac G4 and set it up with OS 9.2.2.  I mostly want to use the system for playing music from my network drive, I have it connected to an 8TB NAS drive with all my music on it. The problem is that all of my music is in the...