coius
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After getting this up and running, I am now on a roll. I just got a troublesome quicksilver up and running.
It was originally not booting, or booting to openfirmware prompt and freezing. It sometimes wouldn't even boot to nothing but a grey screen.
I now have it up and running and I am now on it. I am super tired right now from a long boring day, but when I got around to it, I feel very happy since I got (what I feel is) more accomplished tonight than I got accomplished during the day.
To make this short, I have narrowed it to either the optical drive cable, or the optical drive.
I think the drive is fine. It boots in the Sawtooth, but I have a feeling that when I put an improper screw into the HDD bay overt he cable, I musta done something. if that's true, I may need to track one down. This will be fun, but I know a place I can check (I know where to get 3' IDE cables) to get them cheap.
Yay for me actually getting this up and running. I have it booted from the eMac 700Mhz which I acquired a while back (didn't tell anyone about it) but I am copying the boot volume from the eMac to the G4 Quicksilver now to get it setup. The eMac just had a fresh install on it.
These are the specs now:
Quicksilver 2002 Model
733Mhz G4 overclocked to 800Mhz (was 867, but thought it was the issue and downclocked it).
1.5GB PC-133 RAM, CL2, 1x iRAM brand, 2x Kingston RAM
USB 1.1, FW400, Modem, Gig-Ethernet, Sound in/out
GeForce4 MX AGP 4x GDDR RAM
Sonnet PCI-SATA card (2 Internal SATA ports)
120GB 7200RPM SATA HDD (Samsung), Sony CRX-XXX DVD-+RW/DL/RAM drive. believe it or not, Apple profiler says it's actually Apple-Shipped. So some model of G4 (I think a G5 had it) shipped with this model. The drive was pulled out of a Sony Vaio Desktop when it died. Picked up the drive for $10. Yay!
This machine is quite speedy. Might try throwing a 250GB SATA HDD into it for the hell of it. I have one sitting around.
It was originally not booting, or booting to openfirmware prompt and freezing. It sometimes wouldn't even boot to nothing but a grey screen.
I now have it up and running and I am now on it. I am super tired right now from a long boring day, but when I got around to it, I feel very happy since I got (what I feel is) more accomplished tonight than I got accomplished during the day.
To make this short, I have narrowed it to either the optical drive cable, or the optical drive.
I think the drive is fine. It boots in the Sawtooth, but I have a feeling that when I put an improper screw into the HDD bay overt he cable, I musta done something. if that's true, I may need to track one down. This will be fun, but I know a place I can check (I know where to get 3' IDE cables) to get them cheap.
Yay for me actually getting this up and running. I have it booted from the eMac 700Mhz which I acquired a while back (didn't tell anyone about it) but I am copying the boot volume from the eMac to the G4 Quicksilver now to get it setup. The eMac just had a fresh install on it.
These are the specs now:
Quicksilver 2002 Model
733Mhz G4 overclocked to 800Mhz (was 867, but thought it was the issue and downclocked it).
1.5GB PC-133 RAM, CL2, 1x iRAM brand, 2x Kingston RAM
USB 1.1, FW400, Modem, Gig-Ethernet, Sound in/out
GeForce4 MX AGP 4x GDDR RAM
Sonnet PCI-SATA card (2 Internal SATA ports)
120GB 7200RPM SATA HDD (Samsung), Sony CRX-XXX DVD-+RW/DL/RAM drive. believe it or not, Apple profiler says it's actually Apple-Shipped. So some model of G4 (I think a G5 had it) shipped with this model. The drive was pulled out of a Sony Vaio Desktop when it died. Picked up the drive for $10. Yay!
This machine is quite speedy. Might try throwing a 250GB SATA HDD into it for the hell of it. I have one sitting around.
