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Apologies if I am preaching to the choir, but revision A of the beige G3 logic board can't use slave drives, while B can. So I guess there are significant differences to the IDE controller between them...

No problem! No trace and no via means it's not connected to anything. I did a bombed 650 board (same board as 800) recently and most of the N/C pads were gone, and a couple of the connected pads needed some repair. All worked fine when I soldered the IC back on (along with some other repairs...

That pad is N/C. You can safely ignore it.

Can anyone recommend a suitable one? I'm afraid that whatever generic led I buy will be way too bright. The original was very subtle and I really hate bright glary leds so I'd like the replacement to be similar... Thanks.

I just use one of the below units configured as a wireless bridge connected to the computers ethernet. Works on any mac with ethernet and avoids all messing around with drivers and wifi configurations. Got a quadra 700 sitting next to me right now connected to my home network via one of these...

Is it possible? I am having no luck doing so. It will boot and load extensions, but freezes on the loading screen after the extensions have loaded before going to the desktop. With extensions disabled, it freezes in the same place just with no extensions loaded. I have the Sonnet firmware...

I was watching it on ebay too, and had the exact same intention of using the 601 card in my 700 if the 950 was truly a gonner - decided I didn't need any more projects in the end! Good to see it's in capable hands!

Hi, yeah the problem appears to be independent of the VRM - same on both. If you didn't see my other thread, I got it working with a wireless bridge instead of direct connection to the router. I don't know why, but it works now. On the heatspreader, I left the foil on the heatsink side, I just...

No, I am in the UK. Well, I have an update. I did the large folder duplicate and it worked fine. I have some cheap wifi bridges/endpoints laying around that I use at work so I decided to try one of those. It's on a very short (about 15") ethernet cable. With that it is running just fine. Been...

Thanks for your thoughts, I really appreciate it. I am 99.99% sure it's just the ethernet. If the machine is just idling on the desktop with nothing running it will sit like that indefinitely, sleep and wake no problem, launch applications and go back to idling etc., but when I plug the...

I made a new post in the proper subform about this as I have been working on it; https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/g4-cube-becomes-unstable-when-ethernet-is-connected.38641/#post-417773 I discovered that it's some how related to the ethernet. I can launch every app on the drive...

In this thread; https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/unexpected-surprise-in-a-g4-cube.38554/ I noted I was having problems with the machine locking up with a spinning beachball and had attributed it to disk problems. After a bit of tinkering I found out that the machine is actually rock...

I have the Artmix VRM installed and all good, got the cube online and launched safari, and got a few pages in and soft hang. As in it all locks up, but the gradual lock up with spinning beachball that comes with a failing hard drive. Something is not right with the SSD that I'm using. Seems any...

That's reassuring thanks! I don't have much to go on to say whether it's a cube processor or not. The SG4K designation doesn't appear anywhere in Sonnets knowledge base or manuals that I can see. Cube processors are apparently designated on SG4C, but this old newegg listing shows the SG4K part...

Thanks for the warning, it's my first cube but I did a lot of reading before I bought it, so I know what the result of burning out the vrm is. Impatience and the desire to tinker would not allow me to leave it alone until I got the new VRM! I have tried to be careful not to do anything to pull...

Thanks for the comments :) I made a usb boot of the tiger dvd and it booted off of that, so I hooked up a mini-pcie ssd>44pin>40pin and installed it on that, and it booted and ran fine but needed the sonnet firmware patch as it was showing 0Mhz cpu. I had a weird false start when trying to...

Bought a clean cube a little while ago on ebay, came with a really nice boxed 20" cinema display, and I was really pleased to get one in nice cosmetic condition. I have been struggling to get it to boot properly, I had to the point where it would boot an existing 9.2 installation to loading...

I have a soft spot for the 7100, I had a 7100/66 that saw me through university. It was already old at that point - I attended uni between 97-01 - but I was on a tight budget and couldn't afford anything newer. Many hours were spent by me and a few of my flatmates playiing FA18 Korea, even did...

The slot loading dvd drive on my recently acquired cube was extremely sluggish to eject and would not inject fully without assisting the mechanism. I completely stripped it and cleaned and lubed the moving parts to no avail, and tried the trick to shrink the belt in boiling water that seems to...

I doubt it, I had the cable disconnected and reconnected multiple times at both ends while I was messing with it. A mystery!