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I tend to shuffle files between my 6500/TAM using either USB (slow 1.1 speeds but fine for little things), SCSI (real SCSI HD or SD based external device - SCSI2SD 5.1), or pull the HD itself for big jobs (moving an MP3 library for example). The easiest would be your BlueSCSI; I'd pull the SD...

No, it’s not that simple - I’ve been soldering for years and BGA swaps for CPU and GPU, RAM are the point where I opt out. You will need significant upgrades in equipment for this to be successful. There are members on here that can possibly do the transplant if keen. You will need to change...

You can, Wegenerer Media was a store years back that did just that

Bonus time! It's amazing how we still find treasures like this when the pool of Macs is thinning out. My best surprise, years ago, was a PowerBook 540c sold by an eBay reseller shop front that was not far from my work. I went to pick the Mac up in person, got it for about $30 and the lady...

Probably not - Aluminium G4 PowerBooks, Snow G3/G4 iBooks tend to not fetch much, great Macs but not a goldmine.

That's not a great thing to find when delivered :( A working CPU will result in a chime, I'd inspect the CPU connector very slowly for any damage/pins dislodged. The CPUs cards are known to sag in tower Macs, and over a long time make poor connection (worse if dislodged due to shipping...

That's popped out too? A thin sheet of flexible plastic might to, JB welded on the other side. But if really damaged = find a junk Pismo for the parts.

Yeah looks like that stock HD is hosed, probably not worth keeping especially with bad blocks. Anything else in there will make the Pismo zip along.

Yep you just don't see later 700 - 900Mhz iBooks around, they were so bad a common "repair" was to clamp or shim the GPU to get it to just work again before they were probably all junked. The iBook 500, 600s were great units for OS 9 and the 500 could be overclocked to 6 x 100 nicely.

Yes, confirming the Rocket in a IIfx gets all bothered in a IIfx with 24/32 bit addressing if configured with 32MB and above RAM; the next step down is 20MB which it is happy with. This is also confirmed in Radius' own documentation for the IIfx. No idea why.

Welcome @MacPlus2300 , your pics are quite small I can't read the output of the crashlog - could you repost? I'd suggest the old IDE drive is on its way out and the javascript update bought it down.

Glad its working, interested how you go with your G3 Takky, I've one recently rebuilt and it certainly pushes the limit in terms of power draw and cooling, working well now though.

It's ABS, you could consider some sort of metal mesh on the other side to reinforce it

Sonnet accelerator cards were pretty pedestrian in the day, they sold well and are sought after upgrades now as they still work. I can confirm that other more bleeding edge upgrades do have issues with faulty cache and/or need to be derated in speed to function reliably. It's unusual then that...

If the iBook G3 works well now, it'll keep going most likely = OS 9 works well on them. There are much fewer around though nowadays because of the frequent failures. Another caveat (similar to Franklinstein's comments) just make sure the (clear) keyboard doesn't stink - another common issue...

I'm guessing with a tear down, strip down to known good working basics (remove G3, cards, piles of RAM), clean it all and check it over, it'll fire up again. Add components one by one with the G3 and HPV card last.

Not my image, but SB16 midi should be visible.

What’s your sound card, I’d reinstall the Windows 3.1 drivers for it. Adlib it isn’t!