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It's possible the hard drive is bad, or the volume is bad. Depending on what you're connecting the unit to in target disk mode, if the volume has issues it will not mount or show up at all. Leopard has a tendency to ignore volumes with certain issues. If the drive itself is bad, you'll have the...

Titaniums are a bit of a pain to remove the logic board, at least compared to newer Macs. I helped a friend transplant some guts of one Titanium to another and it took a lot of fiddling. The thermal pads on both machines basically turned to glue and it took a lot of flexing and shimming to...

You don't actually have to do it from another machine. When I flashed a card years ago I just turned on remote desktop before I installed it, shared the screen and flashed it directly on the Mac.

http://img266.yfrog.com/img266/2238/img0023ouc.jpg there she is

A guy at work had this and didn't have any use for it.. it's a G4 Cube, 450 MHz, 786MB RAM, 20GB, DVD-ROM, in LIKE NEW condition with the original speakers and discs. I just upgraded it to 1.5GB RAM and put an Airport card in it.. it's reinstalling Tiger now. I'll post some pictures in a bit...

I just removed the resistors, which was incredibly difficult, my 15w iron didn't seem to melt the factory solder very well, and then just cut small wires, tinned them and soldered that between the points. The difference between 400 and 433 is like, nothing.

I ended up overclocking it to 400 mhz, I didn't try 433 because I didn't want to risk messing up soldering twice if it didn't work. http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/7540/400k.jpg It's considerably faster now.

I found an iBook G3 clamshell on Craigslist today for $50 which said it was "locked" and needed to be "unlocked". What they meant was they didn't know the admin password. I had no idea what the specs were but for the price $50, which I got down to $40 over the phone, I didn't care. I went and...

Cool. They are a bit of a pain. I've never worked on one of these and was able to dig into it with ease. Mike, do you have any good deals on Airport Extreme cards for one of these by any chance? All I have are spare original Airport cards.

Found a 1ghz, 768MB RAM, 80GB hard drive lampshade iMac G4 (not the USB 2.0 model unfortunately) for $100. Picked up today, got it home but found the optical drive would just spit out media. I threw a DVD+RW drive in and it has Leopard installing now. Now it needs a little more RAM and an...

Just an FYI, it's a huge pain in the ass to do sort of drive replacement on a 12" PB.

You can most likely find a Mirror Drive Door G4 for the cost of a CPU upgrade for Sawtooth. I just sold my FastMac 1.4 GHz CPU upgrade for $100 just to sell it quick and it recouped half of what I paid for the machine I bought to replace the Sawtooth. I bought a dual 1GHz MDD, 1.75GB memory, DL...

I used to on my graphite. Just make sure the jumpers are set correctly. The bus is slower, so don't boot from that drive.

The 9200 needs OS9 or later.

Unfortunately it sounds like it's failing. If you have something else to boot off of on the machine, such as another PPC Mac like your G4 via Target Disk Mode, do that. You'll at least be able to see if it's a software issue. Reset the PRAM for good measure, but it most likely won't help. You...