Recent content by chikorita157

I’ll go grab a 128k ROM. I have to go and dig out the floppy drive and flash it on the Pentium III PC. Desoldering the old ROM shouldn’t be that bad since I have the Hakko hot tweezers.

I tried the 66 MHz slot, it only shows a grey screen and won't boot into Mac OS 9. This seems to be only the issue with Mac OS 9, card works in OS X. I think it's the reduced ROM as I have the 9250 mod drivers installed. Can try another one, but I think I'm going to find a bigger ROM chip and...

I soldered the resistors correctly and used the Tome ROM. I installed the 9250 drivers, but it was in a regular PCI slot rather than the 66 MHz. Maybe I’ll try putting it in the dedicated slot, as the video card works under Mac OS X even with a 3D program. May be just a conflict with the...

I finally managed to move the resistors (or rather, replace them since I lost the two when I tried to remove them and move them), and it seems to work in Mac OS X with a reduced ROM. However, it only shows a blue screen when booted with Mac OS 9. The question is, do you need a full size ROM...

I have used a Crucial and an older Samsung 840 SSD with a genuine Seritek 4 port and never had issues. Sure, the ACard SATA adapter is a bit more picky with not booting after a restart, but seems to work most of the time. This was especially the case with a ADATA SSD, but the Inland...

This is kind of cool, and I do have a Power Mac G3 B&W, but I have a G4 installed, so it might not work with that without putting the old CPU back in. Someone should try to get AIX working on these Power Macs.

Should use MACh Speed Control instead, since it will work on any ZIF and G3/G4 accelerator cards. http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/machspeed-control-combo

I finally got the rare G4 ZIF upgrade from PowerLogix. It wouldn't boot up after installing it despite having the G4 enabler patch installed, so I installed the patch again with the G3 and put the G4 back in.The same thing, until I turned the dial to the correct setting. Had to look at the...

While I failed to win a Radeon 9200 PCI on Yahoo Japan Auctions, I tried finding an alternative. Yes, it's the original Radeon PCI Mac Edition (aka Radeon 7200), which is another rare GPU and is the 2nd fastest PCI Radeon video card (9250 and 9200 are basically the same thing). It's supposed to...

Most of the tinkering with old systems is to put in newer stuff just to see how it will perform, even if it can't take full advantage of it. Things like PCI SATA cards with an SSD already gives a noticeable improvement over a SCSI emulator or a SCSI hard drive. Also, the 9600 was a better...

For a while now, the Power Mac G3, which I got from a family member for free back in 2007 haven't got much upgrades. With my two recent additions, I don't know how it fits in my setup as I have a lot of machines that can run Mac OS 9 with a G3 in it. Actually, three of the beige Power Macs...

The prepatched ones are junk. I tested them like 3 years ago and it wouldn’t boot my Mac OS 9 partition on a Power Mac G3 Blue and White, it shows a floppy drive icon with a question mark. http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=5900.0 There are better options, including the Rabbit Hole...

Managed to win a lot of DIMM FPM RAM from Yahoo Japan Auctions for 5000 yen, or about $32.While it mentions that it’s a lot of 32 MB RAM, I saw there are 64 MB, 4 of them. I guess I can finally max out the 9600 to the official maximum of 768 MB, although 1.5 GB would be nicer, but finding 128 MB...

Could be possible the PowerCenter is even pickier when it comes to RAM, it even had the issues of stability issues with the RAM I have. I only had the newer sticks of 128 MB installed, which is an OWC and MemoryMasters that had flatter DRAM chips and so far, no issues hopefully. Probably the...