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    finially finished my project. performa bench test in os9

    a year in the making, lots of work. i could maybe squeeze a bit more out of it but for now... time to play some EV. or maybe halo...
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    6360 overclock/upgrade?

    has anyone on here heard of overclocking the bus on the 6360? also has anyone successfully gotten the 9200 radeon to fully function with a G3 upgrade card? i never made that work on mine.
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    need help with AGP riser cable

    i have three riser cables from various companies, all hongkong so maybe same company. i swear i had it worked at one point but its been a while and now im not sure. Radeon 8500 and ti4600 on a G4 QS board. with the ribbon riser cable installed i will get a boot in os9 with out drivers. can...
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    x800 pc flashed to mac

    ive been digging and i think i may have what i need but wanted to check. im planning to buy a x800pro vivo on ebay and here is why. does this sound like it will work? anything i should know? well ive done a couple days of research here. as i remembered it seems the pro vivo is the only version...
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    Installing 10.4.6 on Quicksilver, driver packs for motherboard?

    I have installed a retail version of 10.4.6 as a clean install on my quicksilver. Are there additional drivers that I need from the original restored Disk Operating System to transfer over onto this retail installation? Want to make sure Mac OS has all the right software for this board
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    get ADB performa keyboard power button to turn on G4 quick silver...

    just when i think im nearing the end of this build... one more road block. i need my Performa keyboard (from a 6300CD with the single mouse port in the center) to turn on my G4 867Mhz quick silver. i do not have an ADC video card, from what i have read pins 3/11 on AGP are in some way used to...
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    got this G4 CPU off ebay, whats been done to it?

    does not look like an over clock as the resistors in back are virgin, two in parallel to the leg of a mosfet?
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    AGP riser cable?

    thought you guys might know. i want to put my AGP slot on a cable to move it so i can install a GPU. i found 8X cables but none that list 4X
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    swap G3 for G4 CPU on CPGA360?

    ive read that running a CPU up and around 800 or so mhz on the B&W towers will kick the bus back to 66mhz. due to this im considering a 500 or so mhz cpu upgrade. the question i have: can i take the zif G3 board and solder any of the CPGA 360 G4 chips to it? or do i need a G4 zif card to start...
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    G3 L2 card and PCI Radeon graphics incompatability?

    i have a 6360 with G3 L2 from interware (japan version @ 240mhz) and both a 7000 radeon (64mb flashed) and 9200 128mb mac version. cards will work stand alone but when paired with the G3 card.... no dice. system boots, hits mac os loading screen, extension for G3 card loads, system reboots...
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    will this sata card be botable in a rev2 G3? BW

    i found a sonet card but its 390.00 for the mac version on a referb site. more than im willing to pay. this card here claims its bootable, anyone tested this? https://www.ebay.com/itm/254669346388?hash=item3b4b79d654:g:7csAAOSwgYpdMbyJ for a 3rd option - which pc cards can i swap the rom chip...
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    whats the difference between G3 beige and B&W. optical drive rom required?

    im considering modding a G3 into a 630 case. my macintosh experience was pretty much only 68K so i have a few questions the G3 beige has lots of ram slots and a different configuration than the B&W but looks like it maybe smaller. what are the fundamental differences? i know firewire and...
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    flash different rom to my performa?

    i want 9.2.2 on my 6360. can i mod or flash a different rom to this Performa to make the mac os installer think its compatible?
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    os 9.2 on 6360CD, having issues. help please :)

    i am running 9.1, just did a clean install on an IDE hard drive to eliminate variables. using OS 9 helper i try to open the 9.2.1 update for install. it gets maybe a second into the loading bar and tells me "error reading disk image from disk". i downloaded the 9.2.1 update from macintosh...
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    630 cpu upgrade?

    will a 630CD accept a 68060 CPU drop in?
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    6360 locks up when copying - do i know why?

    my older macs (68040 and 80mzh PPC) did not have any issues copying files. however my 6360 both with and without G3 card - will lock up when copying a file and then unlock, copy some, and lock up again. i tested different CD drives, HD's, Operating systems (8.1/8.5/8.6/9.0.4/9.1). while...
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    G3 addon no boot in 6360 with display port empty?

    the setup: 6360 (128mb ram), Radeon 9200, SSD with IDE adapter, dual partition with Mac os 8.1/9.0.4, interware G3 240Mhz L2 card. the driver disk and files have odd language labels. i am unsure if corrupted or just wrong langage. when i boot the system in 8.1 or 9.0.4 it gets to loading mac os...
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    PCI 9200 Radeon os compatability?

    ive done some research, ive found a couple posts of users running mac os 8.6 with a 9200 but im uncertain if this is 2D only or if it looses 3D/acceleration support? many report 9.2.2 being the lowest OS that a 9200 properly functions on. is this correct? my system is a PPC 603e. so it can...
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    newbie looking for advice on a 6360CD

    I had a 630cd as a kid, wanted the same forum factor but faster for a retro machine. i ordered a 6300 but THEN learned about the 6360 having a PCI slot for video card upgrades SO - i just bought one. my understanding is it uses the tower style board, i had one of them two decades ago. will a...
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    I'd like some input on a 6300 CD modification possibilities

    I just bought one, got it because my first computer was a 630 and this is the same form factor but a smidge better What are my options for a better video card for 3D gaming? What are my options for overclocking the processor? It is currently 100 MHz I have a lc2 networking card in the PDS. It...
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