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Hi, Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I have a Sonnet Encore 1.8GHZ upgrade installed. I don't have the original CPU I have tried reinstalling the the OS as suggested but without luck. I think that the Sonnet CPU/Firmware may be screwing with the OS 9 installer. Does anybody...

Hi everyone, I am hving a little problem with my Quicksilver machine, wonder if you can help. I purchased have a 2001 QS machine. I would like to run Mac OS 9 on this machine. I have installed Mac OS 9 sucsussfully from a 9.2.1 retail cd (I dont have the original disks). The only problem I...

Quick update. I opened up the 2400 which was a substantial task. The hard disk had been upgraded at some stage in the past an was not touching its heatsink. Also the thermal paste on the CPU was non existent. I removed the hard drive(for a quieter machine) and applied some new thermal paste...

I scored a 128k with Imagewiter 1 from eBay for £50! Link The case had lots of dirt on the outside but has cleaned up well(using water only). Inside is clean. Serial number details: Your Macintosh 128 (M0001), with serial number F4143LVM0001, was the 4177th manufactured during the 14th week of...

Hi everyone. I have a Powerbook 2400 with a few problems. I wonder if any of you knowledgeable people can help me out? My machine works pretty well. It has a NUPower G3 upgrade, the memory is maxed at 112mb, 20gb HD, and the battery lasts around 1 hour. Problem 1 Screen flicker on battery...

Thanks everyone. This fixed it! javascript:emoticon(':beige:')

Hi wonder if anyone can help. I have a Powerbook 540c that was in full working order. Unfortunately the screen appears to have developed a fault. I was using the machine under normal circumstances when the screen suddenly faded to white! You can hear the rest of the machine working fine but...

Just a note on this. I remember my school (Edinburgh) having tons of 5500s with these stickers on them back in 1998. Around 40 i think. Always remember that they came with all the extensions enabled, including software for printer,scanners zip drivers that we never had. This made them...