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Just heard back from a couple of services on ebay... nope! They won't do it. Going to look around and revisit the article that was posted a while back about a company in Mass that did it for like $60 + S&H

How would I know what the speed rating or model number for the cache is at? It was my understanding that the 400MHz and 500MHz in the Pismo's used the same L2 cache. Or is this not the case? I'm in contact with a BGA reballing service on ebay and hoping they can get me 30 day turn around. The...

Those were nicknamed "the black bastard" by the IT guys at work back when they came out. Avoid them like the plague unless you really want one "just to be retro". I recycled mine after a VERY short time. I've been using "yoyo" 45w PS units almost exclusively on my G3 and G4 systems as they...

I have the VST LS120 drive in a pismo that works perfectly with nearly every floppy I've run across... except for the much loved 800kb!!! I could never get it to work and instead moved everything over to 1.44MB as a result. The LS120 VST drives are out there, but, they are not a savior by any...

Luckily, it was only a test to see if I could get it done. the CF was already in an ipod that took a bad spill and I had it laying around. The adapter was only $3.... so live and learn. I caution folks who are going to really use this for any workload. Even the SD adapters have their...

I recently swapped the againg 40GB 5400 rpm drive (IBM?) with a Toshiba mSATA drive and a JC20330 based adapter. I tried the CF mod for a while, but, it failed ... I started getting errors in Tiger when running photoshop and eventuallly it would not boot. CF cards don't have the longevity that...

Is there a fuse or such on the Pismo batteries? I didn't think it had that protection on it until the later G4s.

So the battery cycle counter on both my Pismo batteries reads "0" in OS X (Tiger) when I go into the system profiler. Is this normal or are these some how defunct? The one battery is "dead" (not even walking-dead). The other battery will run for about 20min and then drop into sleep. If I...

New here by not new to older Macs. I have in my formerly nicotine stained hands a 533MHz 7410 board from a G4 Powermac. It is one of the low power units. I also have an extra PISMO board (400MHz G3). I have 2 Pismos running today. Both have the 500MHz G3 cpu on them. With the extra Pismo...