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^^It happened to my Bondi Blue so I recognized the symptoms. You could pull the motherboard, stick it into a new or custom case and run off an external monitor, thats what I'm doing with my He-Man Castle Greyskull case mod.

It should work fine. Did the G4 start reliably before you put in the 6200? Also, apparently this card shouldn't be taped so make sure there is no tape on the gold connectors. It could also be a flashing problem so it may be worth reflashing the card. If it still doesn't work after that then...

Sounds like the flyback transformer's blown. This is fairly common with the tray loaders, and to a lesser degree with the slot loaders. http://www.macopz.com/columns/imacrepair/

^^flashed PC versions?

Yes, although technically you need OS 9.2.2 or higher.

^^I think you're right to stick with the Radeon Mac Edition, I contemplated a 9200 as well but the bus speed was going to be too much of a limiter and the obscene prices in the UK put me off. If you want to take this machine to the max then go for the G4 1Ghz, crazy but fun.

^^ Rev 1 or 2 Franklinstein's right, the Rev 1's are horribly twitchy.

Have you tried an OS X install with a fully functional internal optical drive? I've had the occasional glitch on my OS 9 sawtooth with firewire that otherwise runs fine under X.

I think that the only G4 which shared the seperate Firewire board with the yosemite was the yikes. As far as I know, all sawtooth mobo's had the firewire fully integrated.

Firstly, does the B&W boot with its original CPU? If so then you can narrow the problem down to Sonnet. Is the sonnet upgrade compatible with the B&W? Check their website. Here's a good guide to different jumper settings on the B&W http://www.dgweb.ca/g3/part5.html If you have...

Woop, I've found somewhere in the UK that does replacement batteries for £18.

Free from a friend who works for Apple who told me it was a Portable (go figure). The battery is dead but that was expected, it boots fine from the mains. I also got the original floppy drive (with the fold up front). 4MB RAM, 40MB HD. Claris Works 3, Word 4 and a few other bits of...

You need the special dongle that came with the Newton originally (if this is the same setup as the 2000) without it , no chance.

The mach 64 card is horrible, if the one that came with your 9500 is the same as mine it has 2MB VRAM and is very slow. I think they are basically standard ATI Rage cards. As far as I know the Radeon 9200 is the fastest GPU available for PCI Macs

Leopard = Bad, very bad. The G4 may drop your bus speed to 40 mhz (9500's seem to be quirky this way, at least it happened with my G3 cpu) and X.5 is slow enough on a 100 mhz bus. Your graphics card won't support core image either. Stick with tiger for X as anything more will turn it into a...

If the fan is being a continuous pain then you can remove it and stick in a PCI slot fan or two, one under the CPU and another a couple of slots up from the bottom should do the trick.

Check the fan that folds up over the PCI slots is fully up, it should help support the CPU daughtercard. If not clicked into place it can stop the case closing.

Make sure you are on a firm surface like a table, lower the case a few inches forward of the rear panel and slide back once the case is fully lowered. I only use 2 of the six screws to bold the case on now otherwise it makes an even more epic task of fiddling inside.

Just plug it into your tv via the coaxial cable, thats what I did. I miss my 500, many happy hours of Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story, Lemmings etc.

Tried it on a G4 450 with PCI Radeon Mac Edition + 1GB RAM. It ran like an absolute dog compared to 10.4. It's not especially fast on my 1.33 Ghz G4 and that's way above the specs of the machines you're thinking about. There are also reports of GPU's that don't support Core Image (like your...