Recent content by indibil

Great job! Yes, it would be interesting if you shared it; I have two tray-loading drives and neither of them has a cover.

Yes, thank you, I understand. Sorry I didn't mention it. I suppose that 3D function can't be experienced without the original glasses. I was completely unfamiliar with those Formacs; I'd never even heard of them. I don't even know how they ended up in a DA.

This connector:

Wow! Thank you so much for all this information! I think the Formac will be a great addition to my collection; I'm going to keep it. I saw in a PDF that there was a card to add a "TFT" port; I suppose it must have been DVI.

Hi, lately I've been finding some very strange things, things I've never seen before. Some friends brought home a G4 DA, and when I opened it up, I found two PCI cards inside that I'd never seen before. The first is a Formac graphics card, which according to Google seems to be 128-bit and...

Thank you so much! I already have the drivers!!! I'll have to try it out one day :)

Thanks for your quick reply. I want the drivers to store with the cable; I don't intend to use it unless I have no other option. Let's see if I can find something.

Hi. I recently got this cable, but it needs drivers to work. The box only has the instructions, but no drivers. Do you know where I can get them? Thanks.

I think I've done the full dump via telnet this time; I've attached it, I have configured "unlimited scrollback". It's a shame I didn't do it properly before updating. Is it useful for comparing with the initial dump I made of the iMac G3 firmware? A question for you and also for @herd. If a...

Hi! Before seeing your reply, I managed to repair the iMac. It seems it was some cold solder joints on the VRAM chips. I reflowed them with flux and a soldering iron, and now I don't have those artifacts anymore. Now that the iMac is working, I'm a little hesitant to try this new firmware...

Hi, yes, as you say, it's an iMac, and I'm using the original Rage Pro. The graphics problem appeared before the patcher, as you can see, it already happens in OpenFirmware before running the command. It appeared after changing the CPU and cache chips, but not immediately. That's the strange...

I've added some Geekbench results under Sorbet Leopard. These are for illustrative purposes only. G4 600MHz - 512kb L2 cache - 5:2 cache ratio G4 600MHz - forced 1MB L2 cache - 5:2 cache ratio G4 600MHz - patched 1MB L2 cache - 2:1 cache ratio

You made me sweat!!! :) Plus, add to that how complicated it is to type Open Firmware commands with a Spanish keyboard layout, hahaha, it was hard to find the ":" and the "\" key. I've attached what I got from teltet, before and after; I hope I did it right. I've attached photos of the whole...

This is the output before the update. Did I do it right? I used a Linux PC; I don't have a modern Mac, and I saved the terminal text as a .txt file. I haven't updated yet; I need to figure out how to run the installer from that link. Otherwise, I'll try desoldering, programming, and soldering.

Okay, that's very helpful. Thank you. You're able to understand all this with great ease; I can barely grasp it. I'm rereading it; I admire you. Just a quick note: this part: 0x3F40: # of L2s : 0x01 ; (what would two L2 caches mean?) -> could it indicate that there are two L2 cache chips? I...