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https://www.ebay.com/itm/353801822391? This is the Dell Radeon 7500 I was talking about, it has VGA and S-video only and 32MB RAM. No idea if it's DDR or SDR, if it's DDR it's probably a decent performer but SDR wouldn't be much better than the stock card.

I've found a lot of Dell Radeon 7500s but I don't know if they have a ROM large enough to flash Mac firmware onto.

I have plenty of PCs, including multiple with AGP slots, so flashing a card isn't a big deal. The hard part is picking a card to flash in the first place...

I did try that actually, but when I tried to open the files with PowerISO I got errors saying they were corrupt.

Any idea how I would convert those to something I can actually use?

It's branded "IO Data" but I think it's a Pioneer drive, yeah.

I don't actually know what to do with the weird format they put their files in, .cdr is not a file type I've ever heard of before. Anyway, I got another conquest in the meantime from the land of the rising sun, a fully loaded (and very anime) PowerBook 2400c. Was not cheap, but the CD-ROM drive...

The 7500 seems like a decent bet. I'm not planning to go insane with my Cube but even by the standards of January 2001 (which was when my Cube was purchased, according to the shipping label on the original box), the ATI Rage card is pretty weak. Actually...I have a GeForce 2MX something card in...

I'd like to upgrade my G4 Cube's graphics a bit but I don't really want to spend $100+ on a video card. What are some good affordable options? Was there ever a Mac Edition Radeon 9200 AGP card that could fit in the Cube, or a GeForce 4 MX440/460?

I picked this up over the weekend, definitely one of my best computer pickups ever...a complete in box (minus the software, unfortunately) Power Mac G4 Cube that I somehow got for just $50. I can't wait to get this thing up and running!

It blows my mind how long these Macs can stay in use for, I'm pretty sure my SE/30 has files on it from the early 2000s(!!!)

I'm going to let it sit in my nice dry house a while and see if that helps before doing anything drastic.

I believe it's caused by layers of the display partially separating and allowing moisture inside, but don't quote me on that.

Somehow my recent-ish Conquests thread vanished so I have to start over again...I've gotten a couple Mac things recently but one I only just got today and the other hasn't actually arrived so I'll start with this one, a PowerBook 180 with a 6MB RAM upgrade I got off eBay to replace the 180 I...

I mean, that sounds like a good deal to me! I don't even know if this drive works because, being SCSI, I can't just borrow the cable from my parallel Zip 100 drive and expect it to work.

I recently acquired a SCSI Zip drive from a thrift store, but it didn't come with either its power or data cables. The power cable should be easy enough to replace, but what kind of data cable do I need? Would a straight-through DB25 to DB25 parallel cable work?

Damn, I'd have snapped that up in a heartbeat!

Took a while but I got a mini-VGA adapter and still nothing. I guess this iMac G4 is a goner.

Thank you! The connector was still attached, but I disconnected and reconnected it and also pulled the PRAM battery to drain the PRAM too just in case. Sadly it had no effect, and I don't have an adapter from mini-VGA to VGA to see if the machine will output video externally.

Fried graphics chips? Jeez...I sure hope not. What does the video cable look like? There's a lot of cables inside the iMac G4 and to be brutally honest, outside of the obvious IDE drive cables I don't know what the other ones are for.