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Thank you for responding, everybody. I'm sorry I haven't got back. Update: RAM and video card change show no difference in behavior. I hate saying things like "known good RAM" when we can't test anything more than electrical connections or use built in memtest. This leaves out possibilities of...

I feel like that's going to start to be a recurring theme in these machines, eh? A-What's it doing? B-Well I plug in the keyboard and this happens *Water pours out of the speakers* A-Let's try swapping the RAM I kid, but the wild behavior in this machine is something else. When it came to...

Quick Stats: Power Mac G4 MDD FW800 1.42 DP 2 GB Ram OS X 10.4.11 The Problem: Every single game I try to install from disk fails to load after a successful install. Seriously! Halo: Combat Evolved (both PPC and Universal), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, True Crime, Max Payne...ALL BUMS...

See?! This is a huge reason for computers with blinkenlights. Just some kind of status would set the mind at ease. Anyway...crazy concept...have you tried to install OS 9? It has a different AirPort client than X. Maybe first install 9.2.2 and get everything all setup, then install 10.4.11 to...

I've seen 130s for around $100, but in the box?! That's pretty cool. I'd be pretty resistant if it was an earlier model though. Good find!

If you're not much into using them why do you hold onto them, especially the parts? 

When you're staring at the business end of a 20 year old machine, I reccon anything will be better than the dried out and brittle gunk hiding under any paltry heatsink it may have (I'm looking at you 630CD  > :( ). I get plenty of G4 'Books my way and every one of them gets new paste if I...

I currently have an unsecured guest network for my original Airport cards for when I just need some gophering or a visit into the forums. The catch is that the guest network is isolated from the NAS so I leave an airport card in the G4 Cube and turn on the sharing if I need to do some software...

Finally have a good number of Palm OS devices, just looking for the elusive ( read: affordable) Newton Messagepad 2100 to fill out the ranks.

So like a constant hunt, poised for the kill. *clearing calendar and canceling exams* I'm ready! }:)

You guys are great. I love the high level of detail everybody brings to the boards. Your technical data is top notch and vital to keeping these things alive. However, in my line of work, "sea stories" are traded like a valuable commodity. And again, you guys deliver! Bibilit, I get it. It's...

The meat of this post is because I keep getting beat out of auctions on ebay and I'm wondering how you all got into your Newts. Do you just keep increasing your budget till the stars align? Do you get lucky and find one in a junk heap? Are you one of a declining few that still carries your...

It certainly does. About a dozen. I pushed around some alcohol and cotton to try to get some of the more boogery joints cleaned up, but I'm sure that's just evidence they need complete replacing. This poor thing may need to back burner for a while. Then again, the on-board video should be fine...

Wow! All that's really informative. I don't have that chunky adapter for using the onboard video, but I believe I can find one somewhere nearby. At any rate, my original question wasn't about identifying the cards in the system, but it was about fixing the cards. Do these sort of things respond...

Has anybody got any experience breathing life into aging video cards? I've got this WGS with a pair of older cards. The PDS model gives me NO sign of life, but the NuBus card pumps out 640x480 through a DB-15 at 8-bit color. The system profiler in System 7.6.1 seems to not care at all about the...

So what if we make a proper snap in panel for the PDS slot that has the USB B connector molded in it and give the design to the community?

You know...I read that some people like to do that, and I'm not really against it. I like the simplicity it offers, and I like that it offers redundant access to the data store. The only thing I don't care to see in this specific example is that isn't a very elegant solution. Somebody might have...

The parts came in!  They are perfect! I got a set of 5 printed gears for the Superdrive and a purple universal SCSI2SD (that's universal for v5 and v6) mount that is claimed to fit all styles of classics in the wild. Special thanks to @joethezombie for taking so much time to proof the design...

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I've thought about seeking out a network card, but initially the nostalgia of disk swapping appealed to the my inner luddite. However, after going through the process of searching the repository servers and downloading, then storing on my G3 server, then using either Tiger or OS 9 on a...