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Press the CUDA reset button on the motherboard. Or just unplug the CPU card, disconnect the PSU connector from the motherboard, remove the PRAM battery, and press and briefly hold in the front power button on the 9500. That will reset the motherboard. It's unlikely you've permanently damaged...

Looks like a ROM SIMM or cache SIMM. Definitely not RAM or VRAM. M

Low-tech method, but one that's worked for me in the past: run HD SC Setup again. I had an old SE with this problem, and when I tried reformatting the HD it didn't work, and the HD wouldn't mount on the desktop. Rebooted, went into HD SC Setup again, then tried formatting the drive again (HD SC...

Because the CC and LCII share nearly identical logic boards, there were reports that 6.0.8 (or 6.0.8L) would run on a CC. But it turns out that isn't true - it runs on an LCII, but not on a CC.

I definitely find Tiger better - better Web browsing, faster, better functionality, and more up-to-date security updates and the like. If you have less than 384MB RAM, or a CPU slower than 266MHz, I would say go with Panther. The only other exception is that if you're installing Tiger on an...

I had one of the pre-iSight iMac G5s (I had the Rev. B low-end model, 1.8GHz, 17", combo drive). It was a terrific machine. The only thing that bugged me was that it was noisy. It had five fans I believe, and one or two of them would crank up pretty loud whenever the CPU had to to any heavy (or...

Fantastic haul! The IIsi Nubus cards, the Q700, and the Apple/LaCie HDs are in my view the real gems here. [8D]

Nice haul!

I've never even seen or heard of 8MB 30-pin SIMMs (though I've got a box full of 8MB 72-pin SIMMs in the basement - as I'm sure many of us do!) M

Thanks for the reply, sircabulon. I think you're right - the card is toast. I tried it again in the 66MHz slot, and this time I got some video, but it was the same corrupted video I get in the 33MHz slot (and in the beige G3). I inspected the card and could find no visible broken solder...

(1) Beige G3, ATI Rage 128 PCI video card, 17" Apple blue and white CRT monitor: works great. (2) Power Mac G4 "Yikes," with either of two similar ATI Rage 128 PCI video cards, and same Apple monitor: works great. I sold the two cards from the Yikes, and today I needed to boot it up and test...

You need the Iomega driver, which is usually installed as a Control Panel and an Extension. If your Jaz disk still has its original formatting (or was reformatted using the Iomega formatting utility), then it should have an invisible copy of the driver on it, which will allow the Jaz drive to...

Should work just fine - but I wouldn't count on any of the claimed performance benefits for this particular pair of modules making any actual real-world difference - RAM overheating isn't really a problem in the B&W machines, and the CAS latency likewise doesn't really come into play given...

That really is a fantastic haul - congrats!

If the problem is that one of the tabs won't disengage, it's very unlikely the problem is a screw or anything like that holding the case down. I've found IIsi cases are really stubborn this way. I've also found that many 68k Macs - particularly IIsi's, as well as IIci/IIcx/Q700s - have this...

I would say your main question is this: Do you want to enjoy this machine by playing with it and using it now and then, or, do you want to enjoy this machine by really challenging yourself (and spending money) to upgrade it as much as possible? If your answer is the first option, i.e. something...

Yeah, I would stick with Tiger on anything slower than a 1GHz G4 - and even then I'd prefer a DP G4, plenty of RAM, and a decent video card. M

No offense intended, but I have to admit I was skeptical until I saw the pics - WOW! Amazing conquest!

Nice - these still are incredibly useful machines - especially for free!

Yeah, I always strip machines of everything - RAM, CPUs, and of course all expansion cards and drives. I've often thought, "Why am I saving all this crap" - but then some strange situation comes up where I actually need one of those saved items. M