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I must be slow. I'm still not seeing firmware commands in any of those threads. I've got the MacOS9lives Unsupported G4 OS running but still cant find the additional open firmware commands need to get USB etc working.

Well, I feel .... It turns out the little cable from the power button to the logic board was not properly seated. All is well. Now I need to figure out how to make this boot OS9 natively.

Nightmares...I got Leopard installed on the SSD fine but now it is randomly going to a black screen and occasionally responding to the power button, sometimes chimes to a screen, sometimes chimes but no screen. Other times seemingly dead. Mind of it's own.

I left it to install, came back an hour later to a black screen and it wont boot at all....but I do get a chime (but still a black screen) when I hold down Option-Command R-P....very weird. Any ideas? EDIT: Disregard...now it's back. Gonna try a reinstall.

Well I wound up going to Micro Center and getting some DVD-R's. Made a Leopard install disc and it hung up using the internal DVD drive. Connected an external DVD drive to the USB ports and it looks like I'm in business... at least that verifies the USB ports are working correctly... fingers...

Does Target disk mode work only over firewire or it possible to do with USB? I just don't have a firewire cable at the moment.

Ah the Target Mode is a great idea. Yeah I should've said USB Drive not Disc..It's just a Samsung thumb drive.

I've got a USB drive with a 10.4 Tiger image. It works fine as an install for my Power Mac G4 MDD. Trying to format and install tiger on a new SSD in the PowerBook G4 but the USB disc does not show up at all. It doesn't show up in open firmware mode either under "dev / ls" but as stated, it...

Thanks!!

Man...MacOS9lives is such an unintuitive website try to search for a clue on how to do this. Not sure how you guys navigate that mess. I tried and tried. Mine is the first 12" 6,1 867mhz....Can a kind person throw me any clue? Thanks in advance.

OK. Up into the machine which is what I thought. That's interesting because SE's and SE30's blow air out rather than in.

Is it supposed to be blowing air up into the computer or down out of the computer?

Exactly lol...very zen.

If you want to pay for the capacitors (roughly $50 of caps to recap the analog board, logic board and floppy drive.) plus shipping to/from Atlanta, I'd be happy to whip that sucker into shape. I've done about eight of these without any problems. I wouldn't charge for the work...that's just a...

yes it so happens the the classic analog boards are the worst of the worst in terms of leaky, unreliably caps. Just a bad period in time for capacitor manufacturing and the Classics were in the heart of it. Main thing though is get that nasty, nasty ugly lithium battery off the logic board...

99.99999% just capacitors have gone bad on the power board and possibly the logic board. If you want it to work again, you've got to replace them or have it done. All Classics and Classic II's need to be recapped. They ALL fail this way. 100%. There's a slight chance it's a damaged video chip...

ah..the 7200/90. The first Mac I ever bought with my own money back in 96 I think.

Wondering what the prospects of finding one of these are , if they exist or if I should bother trying?

Sorry to hear this. Mistakes happen and we've all made them. Hope you can get the board working and whatever you do, certainly do not chuck it. There are many parts on there which are still fine and could contribute to another troubled board.

Put UV mask on the traces under C10 on my SE/30's. No reason not to.