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Hi all, quick question. I have a B&W G3 with the entry level 300mhz chip in it, and a parts donor with 400mhz chip with twice the L2 cache. Do I just need to switch the CPU card and the jumpers over to upgrade it or are the logic boards different and would require the whole board to be...

Hi all I have a Quadra 610 with its install disks and would quite like to wipe the whole thing and do a fresh install of 7.1. Unless I've been looking in the wrong places, it doesn't look like it's install floppy has a disk utility app to wipe it so I'm curious to what the procedure is. Is...

A few days ago on eBay UK I won what I thought was a 6400, the seller didn't specify much, it was a low effort listing and there was no way of knowing if it would even work, it did, so £57 plus postage was a good price. It arrived yesterday and after taking it apart to dust it off, noticed it...

Hi all I got a IIsi today, its jolly nice and up and running, just finished the long runaround of finding and putting a copy of stuffit on it that isn't compressed with stuffit, thats always fun :/ I have it outputting to an LCD screen via a converter to VGA but im not entirely sure what its...

Hello I have a 6200 with what I think is a borked power supply, as the logic board and hard disk are all ok when inserted into another one. Trying to turn it on makes the speaker pop faintly and holding the button down results in the noise happening every couple of seconds. Just wondering if...

Hello I've got a jaz drive sat around which sounds like it works, it spins a disk up and ejects and so fourth. Now I just need the right cable but im not having much luck finding anything confirming what sort of SCSI is on the back of it. Just from looking at pictures and going on what it looks...

Hello I got a PB 5300c recently, and as far as I can see only two things on it are broken (which given this models reputation, is probably quite good). The first is the battery which was at the early stages of leaking, caught it just in time before it did any serious damage, and the second is a...

Hello Recently got a replacement Performa 630 after my last one croaked it. I have a quuck question about start-up. So this one needs to be plugged in for a minute or so before it fires up and i'm just wondering why that is. I'm guessing that as its soft power running through the keyboard that...

Hi guys I've got a 630 that won't turn on. It sits on my desk in the warm and was last running quite happily maybe a month ago, playing some Diskworld. So i'm just wondering what the things are to check, i'll open it up and have a look for any damage/bad caps and disconnect the clock battery...

Hi. Just wondering if PowerBooks needed specific PC cards or Drivers in order work with them. Index like to get a USB 2 card for my Pismo but im not sure if I get a generic one whether I'll be able to make it work. Any and all advice is appriciated, I know sod all about this Cheers!

Hello I resurrected a 233mhz Mainstreet Powerbook (borked power cable and non-booting clicky HD) and was just wondering what MacOS you guys would recommend putting on it. I have plenty of machines running 9 (which is what it's donor drive has on it too) but as this is an older 'limited' mac, i...

asides from eBay of course. :p I'd quite like to acquire a physical copy of a 68k compatible Adobe Premiere. Curios to know if there is anywhere on the net that anyone can recommend I keep my eye on. Cheers!

Hi All Anyone able to diagnose whats up with the example linked below? I'm not interesting in buying (although it is a relatively blemish free case which is uncommon) I guess im just curious, the image its outputting is bizarre Failing Graphics chip perhaps? Cheers...

I'm picking up a Performa 630 sometime next week, an Ex University machine. So i'll need to start thinking about getting a screen that will work with it. The unit comes with a cable to connect it's DA-15 to DE-15 and i'v seen a snap of it running happily with this cable on a 3x4 LCD screen...

Got my recently acquired TiBook running 9 with the help of you guys. I've since had an interesting development in regards to a very bad and immensely strong smell its now making whenever it gets a bit warm and the fan spins up. Difficult to pinpoint exactly what sort of smell it it, i guess it...

Hi all I've got a 1ghz TiBook that i'm hoping to stick 9 on, preferably without removing the 10.4 install. Unfortunately, while I have an install disk, the machine boots off of it fine but wont refuses to run the install application. Just wondering what the correct OS9 install image is for...

There is an eBay listing located near me geographically selling a couple of G4 Quicksilvers. They haven't been powered up and they don't have a drive so there being sold as spares, the price is appropriate for this. I am curious to find out what the clock speed of them are but the seller doesn't...

Hi All just a quick post to gauge the feasibility of restoring an old Hard Disk from a 5200. It hasn't been spun up in a while and when we tried it (the rest of the computer seemed to work fine), the HD sounded very squeaky. The Mac was unfortunately unable to boot from it. I've read somewhere...

Hi all, im wondering if anyone might be able to make any suggestions regarding a 400mhz Pismo I have. As the title suggests, it boots so long as its plugged in at the mains and the reset button that sits among the ports has been pressed for a bit. The obvious first thing to do was to disconnect...