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B.U.G. Cards are flying way below the radar at the moment. They are excellent and rare cards yet they seldom command high prices at all. Mine was £40. I think a big part of it is that no youtubers (that I've seen) have made a video about them yet, which tends to drive prices up when it happens...

My experience with MDDs is limited to just two machines but I've never seen a warped CPU card in one. That said, I have seen warped a warped CPU card in a Quicksilver that had a dead fan and overheated itself to death. Please can you post a picture of the bend in your CPU card? Once a card like...

There are definitely custom firmwares on certain "Apple" hard drives but I don't think there were really any extra features or components until the mid-generation Intel models (2012-2017). For example, if you pull the original HDD from a 2015 iMac and replace it with something generic then the...

It is promising. Like a jigsaw puzzle without the lid of the box it came in is promising.

I was able to get the PiStorm to "work" with a Macintosh Classic, in that it was able to boot up from a floppy disk and putter around the OS. It took about two day's worth of time spread over an entire year to get to this point. I had to use an early version of the Atari firmware due to the...

I hope this comment hasn't caused confusion. I'd like to clarify: this is in reference to the two O-rings at the bottom of the LCS assembly, between the CPU card and the water cooling assembly. If you are disassembling a unit that has never been serviced before then you will likely find the...

The board is currently in the hands of its new owner (my brother) and will be getting a thorough testing once I've cleared up some space in my (currently) moderately hellish tech space. All the basics are working well, though. SCSI, floppy drive, sound, and ADB are all working great. The only...

I was finally able to get my SE/30 Reloaded board to work properly today. I checked every single trace, reflowed the whole thing twice, and was just about to give up when I realised that I hadn't tried reseating the CPU yet. It was a complete hail Mary, but lo and behold! I'm not exactly sure...

The SE/30 Reloaded is alive! After months of chasing my own tail, so sure that there couldn't be a single bad solder joint or faulty component left to test, I finally had the brainwave of removing the CPU and putting it back in again. Sure enough...

You can install the heat blocks without the o-rings. They don't really do very much - I think they're just a last-ditch effort to try and block a hypothetical leak in any way possible. My Quad is running fine without them.

HP is almost the exception that proves the rule... I have an unmodified HP oscilloscope that still reads accurately and it's from 1989. Their equipment from that era is legendarily reliable. It helps that it was all very expensive stuff, even compared to an Apple computer from the late 80s. My...

The image looks a bit strange because it's a close-up taken with an iPhone so there's a lot of "AI" sharpening going on. The aluminium has split around the edge of the cap and the contents have leaked. You may be correct that it was caused by external factors but that doesn't change the fact...

PowerMac G4 logic board with leaky capacitors. The capacitors in Quicksilver PSUs are also garbage and prone to failure/leakage. Computers from that era are by no means problem-free and it's a bit silly to assume otherwise, honestly. They're twenty years old and electrolytics have comparatively...

The IDE on the 1400 is sadly just really slow, as is the boot process before the OS actually starts loading. Those two factors combined make for a very slow boot to desktop. With a G3 upgrade it gets even slower...

I'll post some photos of the installation process in a short while. It is very straightforward; nothing to fret over.

You can get the extension that enables the serial port here. There is also a second extension/patcher that allows you to bridge the serial LocalTalk connection to ethernet, here.

I can't get over how nifty these things look! Those on the waiting list for G3 kits can expect a message from me in the next day or two.

@CRG (Glen) I'm very curious as to if and how you fix this. I have a reloaded board that is exhibiting the exact same symptoms.

Whereabouts are you located? Here in the UK we are definitely well past the bottom of the curve. Ten years ago people were still giving G4-G5 era stuff away for free but nowadays we are trending towards loony prices. Base model Sawtooths are going for £50+ and nice Quicksilvers have even touched...

This site may be helpful in this endeavour. It is a (fairly) complete list of all known PowerPC GPU ROMs, including differentiation between AGP and PCI versions.