Recent content by Unknown_K

Taking it apart and cleaning would be the best solution. On YouTube I forget if it was Mend it Mark who does electronics/computers or most Likely Spare Time Repair who does audio gear mostly where I seen the guy take apart micro switches, LED panels, pots, and other stuff to clean them and...

Clean it sooner rather than later.

Shame about the battery damage. Some of the surface case yellowing will come off with a soap and water scrubbing.

can you put up pictures of the Micromac SE insides (very interesting)?

OSX 10.4.x with 256/512MB of RAM and an unsupported GPU is not fun (yes, I know the geforce2mx is supported in this case).

I put a Daystar 040 into a IIx and from what I remember it was a tight fit, but it has been a while.

That's a perfect OS 9.2.2 machine to me. I have a later G4 1.25 Ghz widescreen iMac that is OSX only but would love to run OS 9 on it if I could.

Looks fine to me for a zero footprint drive.

I have a box of OEM DELL system restore disks a guy gave me a long time ago, many copies of XP and Vista plus FreeDOS.

NVME would be interesting if you could make it bootable, or if you still run video editing on the old beast.

You can spot Apple FB-DIMMs from the unique heatsink airflow design (and they probably need it since that RAM does get hot). I quit looking for Pros a while ago because they were heavy to ship and people still wanted some cash for them compared to the dirt-cheap PC equivalents. I love the look...

It's a must if you have a 200W+ CPU that needs to be kept cool. G5's like the 2.5 MC have a TDP of 125W which today is easy to air cool with a few heat pipes, its wasn't the norm when Apple was designing the G5 (just aluminum or copper fins and fans). The downsides of liquid cooling are leaks...

I figured the only people that cared about those adapters were people looking to make a gaming PC from an old server motherboard that was PCI-X only. So, there was a brief period of time somebody would have wanted one. Kind of like PATA to SCSI adapters.

Could be refresh related, try a CRT monitor if you have one.

You can go crazy with RAM 16x 16MB SIMMs is 256MB, I even had a max out Daystar PPC card with another 128MB but generally 64MB is more than enough.