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A while back I got a 9600/233, and it mostly worked pretty well (honestly I only bought it because it was $10 and had a G3 upgrade in it). However one day I plugged it in and *pop*. Power supply's out. Inrush probably killed something. I checked it and the fuse is fine, nothing is on fire or...

It is interesting, and mad props to the engineers who created it because it's an impressive piece of kit, but it's of questionable value, I'd say: unlike most other types of upgrades, these don't always play nice with your computer's existing configuration. For example, earlier versions of the...

Pioneer was OE for a lot of Apple's higher-end optical drives back in the day so they're usually a safe bet. I'd probably avoid anything with extra buttons (play/pause/skip/etc) and/or from low-end manufacturers (AOpen, etc).

No, just the G3/400. Which is more than enough since I only really wanted one to play with a little bit, but the Amiga weirdos have priced even these basic ones way beyond attainable at this point. Mac people don't go buying up your upgrades of questionable value, Amiga people, so quit doing it...

I had some trouble getting FW to work on beige Macs. Make sure you have the proper extensions. If there are utilities for your specific FW device, try running them or possibly other utilities to check if they can see it. You may have to restart after plugging something in. Sometimes on Classic...

Browsing ebay-kleinanzeigen, I came across an 8200/120 a few hours away. It was of course missing its CD bezel, it looked a bit scruffy, and according the the seller it doesn't work, but it's only €60 and... what's this sticker? "Powered by Sonnet," eh? Well, this is interesting. Don't mind if I...

I put a 233MHz card in an 8500 because I wanted something a smidge faster than 132MHz. The bus clock of this card is 46.6MHz, which should be well within spec of all of these machines, and even though my card has "FOR 9600 ONLY" silkscreened on it, it works just fine in the 8500. There were a...

I'd love to be able to do that sort of thing but a good rework station is well outside of my budget and I don't have one handy at work or anything, so lots of projects just sit. Maybe if enough pile up I can justify a few grand on a rework system, but it's not likely. Anyway you may consider...

There is also a fifth type of module, for some of the later 100-120MHz 5xxx/6xxx series (non-PCI) that didn't have the ROM on the L2 cache module, so it was basically identical to a x100-series PM L2 cache. However it isn't electrically compatible with the x100 series; it works only in the...

They generally came with GF 6600s in basic trim levels. Not great but not terrible. These are faster than basically any video card that came stock in a computer that could natively run Classic Mac OS (the best of those being either the GF 4 Ti or Radeon 9000) so it should suit your needs fairly...

Yeah, as above basically Apple works in Apple except for potential trouble with >200MHz or MP cards. A basic third-party card (604, G3, or G4) should work the same in any of the processor card-based models. Clones are a whole other can of worms with their own caveats. If you notice in the 7x00...

They probably changed pin assignment between the 60x PDS and the Gossamer's PERCH slot: what was once ground or NC is now a data line, etc. Unless you can find a pinout sheet for both and pore over them to ensure they're 100% identical, I'd say it's probably not going to work.

If I had to guess (and that's basically what I'm doing here because I am not an optical drive engineer), I'd say the speed of the burn correlates to the intensity of the burn: faster burns spend less time burning the pits, so it may be a little harder for older drives to make out, especially...

If you have a generic ATA optical drive, you can give that a go. Most 4400/Tanzania models in my experience will play nice with generic drives at boot. Of course you'll need some third-party extensions for it once you've installed the OS to the hard drive but they'll generally boot off the CD...

Thanks for posting that. I may have to give it a go. I have at least one single-sided FX4500 hanging out somewhere to try it on.

That is an odd serial number. I can only speculate: maybe it's the first of the International SE/30 models sold? Maybe the first of that model built in Cork? Maybe a unique configuration or customer? Otherwise, SE 1/40 just means an SE with 1MB RAM and a 40MB HD. Pretty typical configuration...

From what it appears, the 53C80 chips should be identical regardless of any suffixes since they're the same CMOS-based 5380 core. I mean if you're stuffing it into an SE/30 it won't be getting any signals faster than 16MHz anyway (and only 8MHz in a Classic). The other thread referenced above...

Try using Rufus. Microsoft decided to drop the bootable device option in the format utility with Win7 which didn't do anything for anybody except cause inconvenience. I think there's a way to get it back natively with some hacking (at least, in 7; 8 and later may be lost causes) but otherwise...

Interesting. I also have one in storage but never tried using it in anything except the LC it came in. Both machines use the same LC PDS to interface the upgrade card, and both use 16MHz 16-bit buses with most of the same support chips on the logic board, so you'd figure it would mostly be a...

As Byrd said, PNY never built OE or even aftermarket cards for Apple so at the very least this example, based on the picture, would have been a reflash. It does appear to be the correct model for flashing though (only the cards with the metal bracket on the rear will work). Reflashing isn't too...