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I reckon that ATX hack is worthy of it's own thread and a sticky if ever anything was!

Hmmmmm.... might be time to try a reflow on my artefacty Rage128 card.

So given that I usually run my 9600/200MP with a Crescendo G3/400 card for daily driving because it is fast, cool-running and not terribly hungry, I have a dual-604 daughtercard sitting in the cupboard most of the time not doing much. I'm keeping it for if I ever decide to revert back to...

Yep it's almost guaranteed that the PSU is cactuar, and this will be the primary issue that prevents it powering on... However it is likely that it has logic board issues or will have them eventually. Unfortunately, the PCI-x G5's were complete and utter garbage. I have a 2.0DP that makes a good...

Hmmmm I might  drop it down a slot in that case and try again. I was getting a fair bit of wierdness all round after I put it in so that is likely the answer... the more you know! :)

I do actually have one of these floating around somewhere in one of my stacks, might actually do just that! :)

9.2.2 should fly along beautifully on the 1.0 Ti... not entirely sure about Leopard's performance however. I know as much as it will run, however it may be a little painful as I don't beleive the Ti runs a hugely powerful graphics controller. It would help to turn off some of the UI graphics...

I agree with Falcon on this point... I'd leave the Cube a Cube and instead opt for a less rare machine to franken the CC with such as an early G4 Mini, which are twice as fast as a Cube anyway. :) I'm not terribly comfortable with the idea of irreversibly franking a Colour Classic either but...

For what it is worth you likely will not hate the experience as much as you might expect if you play your cards right with the initial setup... I actually go out of my way to use the 9600 for a lot of things, simply because I can, and there is period or even current software available that does...

Hmmmm that's what I was thinking, that it might be actually logic board related rather than the Targa card itself. I might actually bring the 7600 over later today and throw in the Targa card and see if it works or if it displays the same symptoms... Seems like the easiest diagnoses I guess...

So I booted up the 9600 this evening and it froze before the icons appeared on the desktop, which I discovered  after I turned back around to open up Classilla and check something out. So I restarted it and this time it booted up but gave me a dialogue saying that localtalk bridge couldnt run...

I'm very much a fan of the 5400 and even moreso the 5500... There was a lot of machine in them for the money, with a decent video controller as well, and they were actually decently expandable for an AIO unit. Only real drawback was the small capacity for RAM, which stands now at 256Mb capped...

The stomping of the various YT frontends was a direct result of the API changeover, yes... a month ago, they all still worked. I hate Youtube a whole lot, not gonna lie. But anyway, pertaining to the original subject matter, whilst not wanting to detract from the intent, this isnt as much of a...

I had a 475 that did the same thing Elfen, and it turned out to be bad pin rot from leaking caps on a fairly significant chip (can't remember which one but suffice to say it was stuffed. At that particular time I had no real interest in the 475 and had one that worked fine so I beleive I just...

I have an entire cupboard full of them... Not sure I have enough for every single one of the 50ish Mac's I own, but certainly enough for every one that I would be using concurrently and then plenty left over.

The 575 was always the pick of the crop for me... Has the nice Sony screen still but has the '040 in it so still quite usable. As a series though, the 5xx are still probably among my favourite 68k Mac's.

Yep! Straight into the bootable floppies blessed System folders and they are good to boot off... then just copy into your 520's System Folder on it's hard drive and restart and it should boot right through. :)

Unfortunately it will be 575's  only for me in the forseeable future... Unless I take a trip to the states. lol

Nope not a special version, you just need the correct system enabler installed, which for a 520 is System Enabler 403. You need to make a boot floppy with a blessed system folder containing 403 so that it is bootable on your specific machine, then when it is booted, copy 403 over to the hard...

I'll be back. I just have to... go and do... a thing. Over here. yes...