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LCARS, thank you very much! I'm gonna grab that restore CD. Extra thanks for the link. Do you have any recommendations for a SATA card and video card? My current firmware is v4.1.8f5. Is this the right firmware? https://www.macintoshrepository.org/28556-powermac-g4-firmware-update-4-2-8

BTW, can anyone direct me to the correct download image of OS 9.x.x so I can install Classic Mode on this beastie? There's so many on Macintosh Repository that I don't know which ones will work and which won't, and that's a lot of downloading burning and testing. TIA!

Ooops. Sorry, I fat-fingered the title: G4 450Mhz M5183 (not M5158) ;)

Awesome, thanks!

I was bored this afternoon - which is usually when I get into trouble... and I came across a PowerMac G4 on Facebook marketplace. He wanted $40 for it, and it looked in excellent condition. It was fully operational too. No keyboard, mouse or monitor, but since they're USB and standard VGA, I...

FYI: the 68040 @ 40Mhz installed super easily into the Performa 630CD cpu socket. I didn't even need one of those fancy CPU pullers. I just used a small flathead screwdriver and gently and slowly plied and pried my way around the edge of the CPU. About the second time around, the CPU popped...

OK, the comedy - of sorts - continues!!! I got in the mail today two new compact flash cards. One was a 32GB SanDisk Extreme card rated at 120MB/s and UDMA7. The other was the exact same card as Gruz used in his YouTube video - a Verbatim 4GB with no bragging rights at all (at least none...

Ease-of-use tip for fellow Performa owners: tie a small loop of string (or in my case, paracord) to the front latch of the drive sled. It makes it 1000% easier to get that drive out when you need to. They're such a PITA to get out if you don't feel like removing the floppy first.

Ya know... sometimes I wonder why I persist at banging my head against a wall... I found an old 160GB IDE HDD sitting around. So I popped it into my Performa, expecting to have similar difficulties as with the compact flash cards, but lo and behold it initialized and formatted without a hitch...

Thanks. I'm aware of the different file systems on modern macs. That's why I used iPartition, so I could specify HFS, not HFS+. I also tried 2GB and even 1GB partitions, but that didn't work either. It seems to be either an issue with the brand of card, or a volume size issue with the size of card.

rieSha, nice! I did not know that. I will check that out. Also, I tried formatting the 4GB and 32GB Transcend cards in my Mac Mini (using iPartition), but that didn't work either. Oddly enough, the Drive Setup util showed the partitions and the names I had named them on the Mac Mini, but it...

I don't think getting a faster card is going to help. The 32MB card that I have that works is the slowest card I have (type 1 at 4x). The others I have are 133x, and they don't work. BTW, those x speeds are in the same units as CD-ROM multipliers - 150kb/s. So a 4x would be 600kb/s, a 133x would...

I've had very good service from Joe's Computer Museum. He has a YouTube channel of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/c/JoesComputerMuseum/about His contact email is listed there. He's in Vernon, OH if that makes any difference to you. He's done two SE/30 boards for me, and both had issues...

Thanks guys. I tried setting smaller partitions. I tried various sizes, even under 1GB, just to be sure. But no luck. Oddly, it seems to "load the driver" onto the drive, then creates the partition, then reports "failed to initialize". If you reboot and try different card and the reboot and go...

Let me know if you can get that IDE-to-SD adapter working. I have two (same model) that I can't get to work. I'd love to find one that does.

Here's a picture of the back of my Apple CD-ROM drive. I popped the gray edge connector/adapter out of it so you could see where the connections are. Hopefully that will help you source another drive that will fit. Seems like as long as the power connector is bottom right and right next to the...

Here's a link to where I got my 128MB RAM upgrade. https://www.ebay.com/itm/173937782283 As noted above, it is taller that the smaller capacity RAM sticks, but it doesn't interfere with the Performa 630CD chassis. There's room for the logic board to slide in and out with no issues. I don't have...

I love my Performa 630CD! I can say that the 128MB ram sticks definitely work. I've got one in mine right now. One struggle with the CD-ROM you may run into goes along with that adapter mattsoft pictured above. Not only do you need the adapter, you need a SCSI drive that has it's SCSI and power...

I have an IDE-to-CF adapter to replace my Performa 630CD's IDE hard drive. I'm running System 7.6.1 and using Drive Setup v1.7.3 it works as expected with my 32MB CF card (but 32MB is NOT enough space) it doesn't work with my 4GB CF card ("initialization failed" error from Drive Setup) it...

mattsoft: I just ordered one from Herb. Shipped to me inside the US, it cost total $78, which compared to eBay was expensive, but considering that you know with much more certainty that the chip isn't a fake or re-labeled, is worth it.