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My pandemic-find minty 12" PowerBook has been full of surprises. Functional batteries, one at 88% capacity the other at 94%, no shiny keys, and a healthy original hard drive. Well the later changed tonight before my eyes and I blame the GDR! (More on that later). Because it has functional...

Last night I needed to burn a CD-R in an attempt to resurrect my 5,1 MacPro from bootROM woes. In the process of saving the 5,1, I rediscovered my little 12" PowerBook 1.33 and spent hours realizing that despite its age and 10.4.11, it packs quite a bit of utility for me in an unmodified state...

My last task to update my AGP is to replace the thermal paste but when I removed the heatsink I didn't see any evidence of paste, only what looks like a thermally conductive block. Is this correct? No TP needed? ;)

I replaced an ailing HDD in my 1400c with the SD card adapter pictured. From my research it should work, but it doesn't. Trying multiple SD cards of different types (cheap class 4 to SLC industrial class 10) with the OE 7.6.1 install CD, the OS can see the card and gives the correct size but...

Has anyone else encountered issues while trying to "install" the labor of love that is Sorbet Leopard? My original attempts restored correctly but the computer could see no system on it and would flash the ? at boot. My second attempts with another download (from Macintosh Garden) will not...

A few months ago some of you may remember that I ran into issues loading FCP 4 on my newly acquired Quicksilver. I'm now having the same issue on my trusty MDD; beach ball at "Loading Audio Filters." What the two machines have in common is a flashed Silicon Image SATA controller, Samsung SSD...

In 2008 I bought a 180 from its original owners. At the time I didn't know what I wanted to do with the machines that I was accumulating. I was mostly trying to buy the Macs as an adult that I dreamed about as a kid simply to have them. Anyway, when the active matrix tunneling syndrome (AMTS...

I'm attempting to replace the original HD with a SD adapter but I'm being thwarted by the clutch covers. The previous owner used some glue to keep the front and back display panels together sometime back in 1999. It no longer holds but it appears that they used quite a bit and the clutch covers...

I'm in the midst of upgrading my 3,5 Quicksilver dual 1Ghz. At this point I have 10.5 running on a SATA/PCI SSD and I'm getting ready to install a Sonnet 1.6 Ghz processor but I'm confused by Sonnet's install guide vs drivers on their support site. The manual predates Tiger and wants 9.2...

Yet another project that I'm trying to bring to completion; my 550 ->575. I have the correct rear door cover but now the hard drive sled doesn't allow it to clip in. The release tab sticks out a bit too far for the rear door. The P/N is 815-0446 Rev D, which as I understand it is correct. The...

My new-to-me 2002 QuickSilver is not seeing all its RAM. I've moved the sticks around and it appears that the slot nearest to the processor isn't seeing any RAM. Does this picture look normal? Are those two metal prongs suppose to be there in a QuickSilver?

Somehow I have misplaced the adapter to my 2300c. I've spent hours looking for it and found the duo (hah, clever) battery charger clip-on but not the actual adapter. I haven't given up hope but I thought I might try to find alternatives just in case. I see that the 2300c requires 36 watts and...

I'd like to sidestep the LBA shortcoming by using a 256GB SDXC card in a PCMCIA adapter but I'm starting to have some reservations on its effectiveness. From what I can tell, SDXC is mostly firmware locked to exFAT. I'd like to use this with 9.2.2 Before I buy a card, has anyone used this...

I've had this 550c for almost two years and I'd say this "stain" appeared about three months ago. No change in location: out of the sun in a climate-controlled office. It came out of nowhere as far as I can tell. There does appear to be a stain on the plastic bezel but I'm not certain its...

My 1998 G3 300Mhz is throwing fits. It has: 512MB RAM from Memory Masters (two 256 modules) and a 60GB Apple drive from my PB G4. I was working with 9.2.2 when the windows vanished and I received the notice that (paraphrasing) "Finder has stopped responding. You should restart." It would then...

In my efforts to rehab my Beige G3, I installed a Sonnet Tempo Trio card (ATA133) and attached a OWC 500GB SSD. The lovely MacOS9Lives restorer initialized the drive but reports its only slightly over 127GB. Now I could be completely mistaken but I thought that when using a newer ATA...

I'm having trouble booting from burnt CD-Rs. In past years, I burnt OS 9 CD-Rs (same media stock) with no issues but with 7.5.5 and 8.6, I cannot get the computer to boot from them. Even stranger is when the disc mounts, it can't open the installer. I think I might be forgetting a step? Burnt...

In an effort to put my Sonnet G4/500MHz beige desktop G3 to use again, I noticed that it does not have the L2 cache card that the G3 in the attached image does. Sonnet's Metronome utility also indicates no secondary cache (of course) but it prompted me to ask: Do I need that cache with the G4 card?

Well, my "for parts" eBay find is full of surprises: a NuPower 233 G3 card & ViewPower 16 card. No additional RAM, oddly for those upgrades. However, that does raise a few questions. I had been planning on running 7.5.5 but if MacTracker is correct, the G3 upgrade requires 8 at a minimum. Is...

I have found sources for ccfl bulbs for both the 22" and 23" Apple ADC monitors but limited instructions on how to do it. The Service Guide for the 22" makes it seems relatively easy but the guide for the 23" has no information. It even goes so far as to state that there are "no offered" part...