Recent content by matthew28845

No corrosion to speak of. Went ahead and removed it though.

I ran MacBench 5, and the CPU benchmark came in at 30% of a G3 desktop, which I would assume to be way below what it should be. The program also displays the computer as having no L2 cache. I guess that confirms the cache being somehow messed up. From what I can find, I’m pretty sure that the...

Good thinking, I’ll run a benchmark when I’m home from work. If there is a definite fault with the cache card causing it to not boot, is there a way to work around it? I can’t imagine it would be easy to find replacement parts for this thing.

I have two RAM cards, one 64MB and one 128MB. I’ve gotten the same symptoms with both as well as just the 32MB onboard RAM. Is there a way to test the onboard RAM or even disable it?

If that's the case then why would updating the working install break it?

I'm having a very strange issue with my recently-purchased PowerBook G3 Kanga. When I install Mac OS 8.1, it works perfectly - installs fine, runs fine, no issues at all. However, when I try any newer OS, the system will either fail to boot, fail to install and throw a read error, or once it...

They're great machines, and excellent for productivity. The keyboard might be my favorite on any Mac laptop.

Oh awesome, I didn't know about that website. I'll buy one from them.

The drive is a Seagate, so I'm guessing that's not the issue. But yeah, if a SCSI2SD is the best solution, I'll just get one of those.

Hi everyone, A couple of months ago, I bought a Power Mac 7500, and it did not come with a hard drive. I bought a 1GB SCSI drive on eBay that was comparable to the original, but after installing an OS on it the computer has tended to lock up when moving around a lot of data, so I'm pretty sure...

CD versions of Tiger exist. That would probably be the only way to get Tiger onto your machine, considering it has no FireWire and I'm pretty sure is actually too old to boot from USB at all.

This is actually something that I did a few months ago, but I figured it would be worth it to post it here. I went to my local university's recycling center to look for some computers to buy. Luckily enough, they ended up having a whole shopping cart full of untested old computers. Among them...