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Hello all, I decided to create this thread because of an idea I had and I wanted to know if this idea would be possible.  The idea came to me while I was using my SE a couple days ago.  My SE only has an 800K drive, so when I want to back up the documents I created to something like an SD or CF...

I haven’t used the FireWire port in about a year, but it worked when I last used it.  The only ports I never tested were the microphone and modem.  All the other ports work.  I have a USB 2.0 card and gigabit Ethernet card in two of the PCI slots, so I don’t use the built-in USB 1.1 or 10/100 mb...

How should I clean up the water damage?

Decided to take a picture of the board.  

Hello all, About a year or so ago, I saw a Power Macintosh G4 on ebay that had some rust on the case.  After searching online, the consensus seemed to be that rust on a computer case isn't a big deal, so I went ahead and bought the G4.  What I didn't notice until recently, however, was that the...

Splicing wires isn’t something I’m comfortable doing.  Thanks for the suggestion though. The more I think about it, the more getting another adapter makes the most sense. The brand for the adapter I have now is Belkin.  Think it was made in 1995-1998 (‘95 because of the date on the box, but...

Hello all, When I bought my Centris 650 a few months back, I also bought an AAUI adapter so I could hook it up to the internet as well as transfer files with my OS 9 machines if I needed to do that.  The adpater, which was NIB when I got it, worked fine for a while, but I think there must be a...

As promised, I'm finally giving an update about the shareware CDs I bought.  I finally got around to uploading some disc images of the shareware CDs I bought that weren't already on Macintosh Garden.  The CDs were Shareware Breakthrough, Shareware Breakthrough 2.0, and Shareware Breakthrough...

One thing I noticed while removing/replacing these batteries is that if you’re not careful, the plastic on the top half of the battery holder can snap off.

Just out of curiosity, what other Mac models act weird without a PRAM battery?

Well it turns out I needed a new PRAM battery, so I bought one off of ebay and things are working as they should.  I noticed that since I installed the new battery that the display works correctly even without installing the Basic Color Monitor extension.

Update: bought a Saft brand battery and everything works as it should now. Thanks again everyone!

You’ll need Leopard Assist to install 10.5.  I recommend using a separate HDD for OS9.  I tried installing both 10.4 and OS9 in my Sawtooth on one HDD and OS9 froze on me when it booted up for the first time after the installation.

I recommend checking out this thread in our Peripherals section:

Yes I am running it without the PRAM battery. Any recommendations for brands available today that are the least likely to leak?

Hello, I recently added a Centris 650 to my collection and am having a bit of a conundrum regarding 32-bit addressing.  I removed the PRAM battery the first day I got it.  It wasn't leaking, but I didn't want to take any chances.  Unfortunately, 32-bit addressing must be a PRAM setting because...

Thanks to Jinnai, I now have a total of 32 MB of RAM in the Centris!  I also finally figured out how to make the green tint on the screen go away, thanks to an old thread I found here.  I found out that I needed Apple's Basic Color Monitor extension.  I found  a copy of it on Apple's old...

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I looked up one of the chip numbers and it’s for a 16MB stick.  If you are willing to sell it, how much would it be?

I put the old 8 MB RAM stick back in and everything is working again with 16 MB of RAM.  I wanted to upgrade the RAM because I thought I would need a lot of RAM for Netscape.  I bought an AAUI transceiver for this purpose.  Turns out 16 MB is fine as long as virtual memory is turned on.  Problem...