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One of the things i added to my souped up PowerMac 7300 was a SCSI card and an LVD hard drive, Seagate 80GB@ 10,000RPM . Now this drive takes a bit longer then its original HDD to spin up and i don't think the system likes this. I have to wait for it to spin up and then reset it in order for it...

I know what I'm doing, i shouldn't have to ask :) But some one didn't follow any standards in its design.

Hello, I got the guts to a G3 iMac here, i thin its 400 or 450mhz. I'm going to re-purpose is as a StepMania machine for my GF. There are some labels on the pin-outs on there but not enough, i would like to use an ATX PSU on it, or put the AC right into it (the power supply). For the later...

How does one flash a ROM on a video card?

I was looking there, but some of these upgrades are hard to come by and pretty expensive. I do have a PSU that will work, i have most of the case as well.

Yes i have just come to that conclusion lol. I have a DA mac siting here with a bad mobo, and missing all the plastic parts, but i have enough laying around i can make a decent machine.

I did a cap replacement on a 1.8ghz G5 iMac, but it only lasted another 6 months and the smoke got out. I think the PSU might have been bad, causing the caps to go in the first place. I still have it, but never got around to testing it.

Good morning! So i have a G4 with gigabit Ethernet running at 400MHz (4x100), 512MB PC133 (4x128). I have a dual G4 533 (4x133) in my possession and would like to install it. Now to fit this i will have to remove and/or relocate the IDE connector, but before i go through this i was wondering if...

good news! I let it sit over night and it powered up and booted!! :D

Hmm. I tired to re-seat them and made sure the contacts were clean when i did the capacitors. I will give it a good look over to see if i missed any damaged connections.

Hello. Well i got my mac off of eBay. It ran for about 45 minutes and when i went to use it later on it gave me the vertical bars. It looked like the capacitors on the logic board were bad, and i replaced them with new ones (thanks trag!) and did a through cleaning of the electrolytic fluids...

I under stand what you are saying. I did grab a 160gb drive from micro center the other day on the clearance table, a made a refreshed copy of my OS 10.4 disk and i am now up and running. I did not install over drive yet because my pram battery is still in the mail some where. So for now i can...

Serious cat agrees.

I tried it piggy backed off the CD-ROM. I have tried a hand full of drives, and i tried 2 in my G3 iMac and they worked fine. My 10.4 disk is kinda scratched so i will try and make an image from it and burn a fresh copy, try a brand new HDD and if i can a new DVD rom. I have a 10.3 disk, that...

Oh cool! Now does this just pretty much modify the NVRAM making it independent of the software once installed? Like i install it, turn it on, and i can swap out the hard drive with a bigger one? And i guess that means i should make sure my PRAM battery is tip top?

I have tried all of that, the OEM one is set to cable selct, i tried that, i tried as a master and master single, master with legacy support, master with 15 heads instead of 16 (theres tons of settings on the DeskStar hard drives.) The thing is it runs fine with the OEM drive and a 2nd one...

Hello again. This time i am trying to install a bigger HDD in my G4 tower. It came with a 10gb drive. I cannot get 10.4 to install on there with any other HDD other then the one it came with. I have tried 6 or 7 drives now and the DVD hangs while booting, it either freezes or the spinning wheel...

well that didn't work lol. It wasn't even recognized as being in a PCI slot

If i get a chance i will try after work and post my findings. I have a whole lot of different cards, some simple scsi, some RAID with 128MB ram, daughter cards, batteries, and heat sinks! -off to work, ill be in the IRC.

Hmmm, the have ROM and RAM but i don't know if the MAC would read it right. They are Adaptec and Promise raid cards, maybe a re-flashing? I will have to play with it.