I've personally never seen a Rage 128 without at least a heat sink. Like not even a picture of one.
Sone do have tiny heat sinks with a fan, some have bigger heatsinks without etc.
Maybe try to add a heatsink.
Also they can behave odd. I have a rage 128 (with a fan) that only works when...
Hey,
I have a Dual 1080MHz mdd G4. By upgrading the FSB from 133 to 167MHz to get that speed, i either broke the onboard LAN Adapter or it's not compatible with the higher bus speed.
So i paid 20€ for a sealed, new in box Intel Dual LAN Networking card and it ran pretty fine, great...
I wasn't able to find the jumper settings for the 133MHz Bus...
No but Seriously, the work on the CPU card seems fine, i admit it looks a bit dodgy on the Mainboard sadly...
The System itself works absolutely stable though, no other issue besides network connections.
I would say i probably...
Sooo...
yesterday i removed the two resistors on the cpu and mainboard that limited the Bus speed on my 867 dual MDD i got for free. I was surprised that it all went well even though i am bad at soldering and used a way too large solder iron.
I even found some faster DDR1 memory in my broken...
So the Geforce 2MX i ordered (couldnt find another GPU for it for a reasonable price, my first ever NVIDIA card lol) arrived today and now the second G4 i got works perfectly fine.
It was really the GPU that couldnt load graphics mode, just like a Text mode for open Firmware or the boot picker...
I already tried restting everything, PRAM battery is not necessary, i know, but it didn't made a difference.
No my knowledge about open Firmware is really limited.
But i will try the ram swapping again in the evening
Also thanks a lot to everyone
The powerplug thing only occurs on the first one. The second one has a better looking psu (it looks higher quality but i dunno, i am mostly dealing with modern Hardware besides the G4s).
Nope, they are both sawtooth AGP models
So i tried with a 400MHz G4 in thr first one and a 450mhz one aswell as a 1.4GHz Encore St card in the second one. The sonnet card loads the Black screen faster ^^
I swapped multiple ram Modules in the first one. In the second one i just left thr 512mb it came with.
But i have about 12 Modules...
So,
I have now two Powermac G4 AGPs,
I have a harddrive with Tiger and OS9.2.2 installed and after fiddling around... Both wont Boot. At all.
The first from which i took the Hard drive and the GPU was a bit glitchy for a while and was buggy booting the OS, it only booted one time, couldnt...