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I discovered something sad about this 32MB GeForce4 MX with DVI. At the OSX desktop it works perfectly, with a nice image. But at the boot selector menu, or in OS9, it's a sea of noisy pixels with a barely discernible image and the monitor repeatedly loses sync or just goes black. A couple of...

@Byte Knight that all sounds awesome. I love your avatar. I'll be ending with many similar upgrades to yours: SSD, USB 2.0, SCSI. That looks interesting, but there's not much info in the linked post, and the original post has lost all its images. What kind of serial port is it? Where is it...

I tried installing this ROM in my SuperMac ColorCard SE/30. Since I don't have any blank 16KB 27C128 EPROMs, I used a 32KB W27C257 and repeated the 16KB Spectrum SE/30 ROM two times to fill 32KB. The modified 32KB ROM file is attached. Upgrade successful! With the stock ROM, the card will do...

Here's a dump of the SuperMac ColorCard SE/30 ROM. It's a 27C128 EPROM labeled: 1003038 - 0001 COLORCARD SE/30 Copyright 1989 SuperMac Technology All Rights Reserved

I think this is an issue with Macintosh Garden's server configuration interacting weirdly with the Quicksilver's Ethernet settings or something in OSX 10.4. I'm normally in the habit of clicking the first download link in Garden listings, which is a www server in Sweden. On my MacBook Air this...

Over LAN - from a server on your home network? Maybe that's a clue. Have you tried downloading from Macintosh Garden via FTP? Or other sources on the web?

Or if you really need to import them and run Disk Copy 4.2, you'll probably need to set the type and creator IDs on the imported file before Disk Copy 4.2 will agree to open them.

Just drag the DC42 files into the Mini vMac window, and they'll mount as new drives. Don't use ImportFl.

The wiki has been broken for months. It's a little bit concerning.

I just posted a huge set of G4 disk benchmarks, including an IDE-to-SATA adapter and a SATA card. See here: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/power-macintosh-g4-disk-drive-benchmark-roundup.45933/

Right, good thoughts. At the moment I've gone back to using the IDE-to-SATA adapter, which has a max speed of about 55 MB/sec when writing large blocks (roughly 1MB), and maybe 10-40 MB/sec when writing smaller blocks. So you're right, there's no way I'm going to see transfer speeds of hundreds...

Did you find an explanation for your slow downloads? I'm having a similar problem on a 933 MHz Quicksilver under 10.4, download speeds around 300 KB/sec. A different computer using the same network cable and port is able to download dramatically faster.

My new G4 Quicksilver running 10.4.11 seems to have strangely slow network speeds, but I don't understand why. The Quicksilver has a gigabit Ethernet port, where I've plugged in the very same Ethernet cable that's normally attached to my desktop computer. The desktop reports speeds around 450...

I'm trying to get Basilisk II running under OSX 10.4. I've downloaded several different PPC versions from the Garden, including the 2009 version and "Nigel's Port". I've left the preferences at the default (IIci with 8MB), and gave it a IIci ROM file. When I launch Basilisk II, I simply get a...

I recently discovered that Classic Mode under OSX 10.4 Tiger is pretty lousy for original MacOS games. Reading more about it, I'm not the only one with this complaint, and apparently Classic worked much better under 10.2 Jaguar. I also read about an intriguing alternative called "Mac on Mac"...

Hehe, we've all been there. Glad it's working! I don't know of any Disk II tester programs but someone else might. I think if you can copy a disk with it, then you're good to go.

How are you testing that Drive 2 doesn't function? You can't boot the computer from Drive 2, that's normal. You'll need to boot from D1 and then try a command like "CATALOG,D2". You could try replacing the 9334, but that seems like a lower probability point of failure. If you have the tools...

Thanks for that link to the Sintechi IDE-to-SD adapter. The desktop version described there looks identical to the one I used in my tests. They found a similar 25 MB max speed to mine. You raise a really good point that I didn't touch on: regardless of speed, SD cards aren't really designed for...

I think I understand now. Those ST chips are LD1117's, it's just that the name is abbreviated when printed on the tiny chip. They have a dropout voltage of a little more than 1 volt, which is the problem. The replacement regulators that have been suggested like the MIC29150 have a lower dropout...

I'm not sure why the Adaptec 1210SA wasn't showing up in OSX System Profiler initially, but after flashing the card and disabling the 24WC02 EEPROM by lifting its VCC pin, now it's working. Unfortunately I'm now running into the dreaded sleep problems with my G4 Quicksilver. The computer will...