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I think I have a CD bezel still, if you want it let me know and I'll dig around for it.

I'll have to try out that Patchburn software and see if I already have an IDE DVD burner, then.

Cleaning the floppy drive absolutely did the trick! This Plus is still ugly though and I don't seem to have anything non-conductive to widen the picture with, but it's actually usable now!

I'm thinking my Power Mac G5 optical drive has gone bad, as it's experienced great difficulty just reading CDs/DVDs and won't burn them at all, even at a reduced speed. Do I need to be overly specific when looking for a replacement or will any SATA DVD burner do after taking the front panel and...

Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for! I'm thinking something in the power circuitry is toast as literally nothing happens when you flip the power switch. The CRT heater doesn't even come on.

I have a Plus (that was converted from a 128k) that doesn't power on at all. Where can I probe with my multimeter to see if the power supply is putting out any voltage?

That's what I thought, I'll have to clean it out and hopefully it'll come back to life.

Manual eject pushes the mechanism up but then it sinks back down once I pull the paperclip back out.

I just picked up a Mac Plus that works, but the floppy drive seems to be jammed in the down position despite there not being a disk loaded. Is this something I could fix just by cleaning and lubricating the drive or is this a more serious issue?

Wow, dusting this one off as I finally bought something Mac again. Took one last trip to Kemner's (as I doubt I'll be back there before he goes out of business and picked up a pair of Mac Pluses, one of them being effectively free. This one came with the keyboard, it's a pretty typical early...

FireWire AND USB? Dang, I didn't even know such a thing existed!

I've decided to downgrade my iBook G4 from Leopard to Tiger so I can use classic mode and stuff but unfortunately like a large number of Mac laptops the optical drive is busted. I installed OS X Leopard on this thing like 2 years ago via USB but I have no idea if the methods for Leopard work for...

Damn, and to think there's even more!

If you mean the two big chips, those are L2 cache. 1MB I believe for a 400MHz CPU.

I did, that's why I've been working on the iMac the past two days, trying to get it to finally work.

The DIMM is marked PC2700 but the SODIMM is not. DIMM clearly isn't bad, unless I have two bad DIMMs (I tried with two different DIMMS).

That's very strange, since it beeps like that with both sticks it had in there before, and all I did was replace the inner DIMM and then reinsert the original DIMM. I also reseated the SODIMM.

Well it seems I've made things worse because now instead of booting up silently, the machine beeps three times when powered on. Did I break something internally?

Yeah, I really hate taking this thing apart and I hate getting it back together even more but it's either fix it or try and hock it on Craigslist.  Fortunately I have a spare 1GB DDR stick to try, so I'll take it apart for the third time in 2 days and see if that makes it boot again.

I've had this iMac G4 (1.25GHz) for over a year and it's been mostly problems so far. I finally got the previous problem I had sorted out this week and decided to try installing OS X...and now it has a new problem. The first few boots, I got display and the blinking folder, but then it started...