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IIRC I installed all the .pkg files from here: http://www.unna.org/unnasearch/entry.php?pkey=157 downloaded and installed the wavelan drivers and it eventually worked with a lot of playing around. It's dammed temperamental and a pain in the arse to set up but it does work.

could the ibooks be suffering from the dodgy GPU connection that seemed to plague many of them?

I don't think the Mach 64 can handle a 66 mhz slot as it's a pretty ancient card. Could the 128 be dead?

Have you tried the video card in the slower 33 mhz PCI slot instead of the 66 mhz one? My mach 64 wouldn't play nice in the faster slot but was ok in the slower.

It's arrived and I'm pretty impressed. I've actually taken OS X off and gone back to System 9 for a decent retro gaming system: Sawtooth G4 450 (mobo transplanted into a B&W case) 640 MB RAM Geforce2 MX It's very fast under 9! I did have some problems installing the downloaded Nvidia...

I haven't recieved it yet, it was an ebay buy and cost me £7 (£2 more then my Performa 6400 cost me!). I wanted something reasonable for my old G4 450 that didn't break the bank and this fitted the bill. Radeon 7000's were all going for around £25 which is crazy and the Nvidia unlike the 7000...

For my Sawtooth. I've been running the 128 pro in it since I swapped the Radeon into my 9500 and it's not very good under Tiger and the benchmarks for the Nvidia are pretty good (for an old, cheap card).

Worst case scenario I'll have to get a PB100 adaptor and run it off that, it's not like I'm actually going to use it on the road.

I have a few mates who work for an Apple reseller and whilst having coffee with one of them this morning he says that a client has just given him a working Macintosh Portable and do I want it! Yes please, how much? Nothing, nada, free! He's bringing it round next week. [:D] ]'>

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Leopard must have a G4 to run but it can run on an upgraded beige: http://lowendmac.com/mail/0801mb/0130.html second letter.

A work colleague was about to bin a PII compaq laptop she bought for £1. Needless to say I aquired it. It doesn't start up although the battery charge light comes on when plugged in, has a DVD rom drive, unknown RAM and HD. Even if I can't get it running and load on Linux I can still...

Try plugging in a mouse and holding the button through startup, this is Apples force eject protocol for these drives.

If you do have any plroblems getting it up and running or need extra parts then this chappie, http://newtonsales.com/ does sales and repairs. Nothing wrong with putting a bit of money into an old machine of you are going to get some good use from it, besides it is our hobby.

I've found Newtscape to be the best with NetHopper a very close second, a word of warning though, surfing on an eMate is going to be slooooow. It's slow on my 2000 which has a 162 mhz StrongARM cpu, the emate only has a 25 mhz chip. For email (IMAP) try MailV and for all your other eMate...

X.3.9 Panther IMHO, its overheads are less then Tiger and you still get most of the functionality. Just make sure you've taken the RAM up to 1GB. I'm assuming here that you mean a slot loading iMac, if it's a tray loader then any version of OS X is going to be sluggish at best, plus it doesn't...

It varies, sometimes 320mhz, 346mhz and even 380mhz. Gauge Pro, Metronome and Tattle tech all say 300.9mhz

Thats what I figured, the card is a Sonnet not Maxpowr. Still at least Gauge Pro got the CPU speed right, unlike..ahem..Apple system Profiler.

I have a G3 upgrade in my 9500 and Gauge pro is reporting 300 mhz G3 (correct) 1MB backside L2 (yup) and... 512k motherboard based L3 ??? I can't disable the motherboard cache but I thought the crescendo extension would do that. Is this good/bad/indifferent or is Gauge Pro wrong?

Do you have access to an old G3/Sawtooth that you could stick the drive in, install System 8 and then stick the drive back in the Quicksilver?