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It lifts right out.

I would remove the RAM card completely and just try booting it with only the onboard RAM. Also, forget about the PRAM battery. I'm pretty sure the computer will boot with a dead one connected(some G3 and early Titanium PowerBooks will not boot with a dead PRAM battery connected) but just get it...

I only got the 10.4(.0) disks. They are CDs, once again in line with the fact that it shipped with a CD-RW and not a DVD drive. I did buy it open box and with some run time on it, but whoever owned it had apparently returned it to the box when it was retired. A lot of the accessories-like the...

There is an MDD-specific OS 9 build. Granted it won't boot at all on a normally configured FW800 Mac, but when you run the MDD restore disks they actually install Jaguar and then dump a 9.2.2 system folder onto the drive(although the folder is bootable in a FW400 MDD). I do think the MDD...

 I will photograph it, but my Xserve G5 shipped with Tiger. The box lists it as such, and it includes the Tiger media in the box(as I mentioned above a full-size retail box version of PPC Tiger).

I use to check every computer branded USB mouse I came across to see if it was Logitech because I knew I could get the right click and scroll wheel to work in OS 9. That because academic after I found USB Overdrive, though-not only is it much more capable but also works with almost every mouse...

Remember that Tiger was the last shipping OS of the PPC era. My boxed Xserve G5 had a separate retail boxed set of Tiger install CDs in the box. Interestingly enough, it came with CDs because Xserves shipped with a CD-RW drive-I upgraded mine to a SuperDrive robbed from a PowerBook. I did my...

The X-serves are designed for 19" Telco racks, although they are quite long. I think the G5 is about 3 feet. Mine came with the unused mounting kit with hardware for both 2 post and 4 post racks. The unfortunate thing is that all I can really fit at home are shorty 2 post racks. I'd like to...

I have an Xserve G5 stuffed back in a closet, although I don't run it all that often. Mine is a dual 2ghz, and it definitely seems to finish jobs faster than my dual core 2.0, although my dual 2.7 and of course my quad beat both of them. It's a LOUD beast, though, and also throws out a lot of...

Just be sure when you format it as HFS extended, you click the "options" button and select "Apple Partition Map" from the menu that comes up. Neither MBR nor GUID will boot on PPC Macs. (as a side note, despite a lot of information out there to the contrary, many Intel Macs will actually boot...

The folks over at OS9 Lives have been working on getting OS 9 on unsupported machines, and the FW800 MDDs were-I think-the first ones they "cracked."  The early technique was to downgrade the firmware to the FW400 firmware. As I recall, this disabled the FW800 port, but actually had the...

The Dock I bought is coming with a 210, but my intent is to use it with a 230 since the 210 reportedly had some issues. 

Some MDDs are unhappy with high density 512mb RAM. Depending on the specifics, HD512s may ether not show up at all or read at half capacity. When you're buying Mac RAM, it's almost always a good idea to buy low density RAM. Non-ECC LD RAM will have 16 chips total(8 per side) while HD generally...

I have a DuoDock on the way, and one of the things I noticed in the photos that is that it doesn't look like it has the FPU. I'm not overly familiar with these, but I think that because there's an empty socket on the front left side of the board in the dock. From what I've found, these used the...

Outside flashing, there are four options for PCIe G5s. The factory options were the 6600, 7800GT, and Quadro FX4500. There was a retail Radeon X1900GT. The Quadro is the "sexy" card that everyone wants, but for most folks the Radeon is the better card.  BTW-with regard to the above comment on...

Here's a good guide on taping cards http://themacelite.wikidot.com/pins-3-and-11

I maintain a pretty heavily used PPC system for both legacy software and legacy peripherals. For about two years-up until last week-that system was a dual 1ghz PowerMac G4 Quicksilver(I've since replaced it with a dual 2.7 G5, something I'd been planning for a while but just hadn't take the time...

Alright, I pulled the drive which actually surprised me in that it was half height rather than full height. I'm use to working on 3400Cs and Kangas, but then the 2400C is a LOT smaller. It's also not the easiest hard drive I've ever pulled, but it does beat the heck out of an iBook(any version)...

Thanks! I though it did look familiar. Unfortunately, like I said pulling the disk is my only real option now as I don't have a PowerBook SCSI adapter. I've gone a bit nuts on OWR and 68K PBs lately, so that's something I REALLY need to fix. A CF adapter also seems like it would be a good...

Thanks for doing that-I should have tried it! In any case, apparently he doesn't remember correctly-that doesn't work!