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I have a Brother HL-L3230CDW. It's been great; rock solid reliable, reasonably priced consumables. I just tried connecting to it with my Quicksilver running 10.4.11. It was detected immediately via Bonjour in the Printer Browser utility. I tried the HL-2460 series CUPS v1.1 driver and it quickly...

I've been trying to kill the high-pitched whine/hiss in the Rev. B power supply, correlated with CPU/GPU load, for a while now and have not been successful. In addition to the recap, I tried swapping the Rev. E fan control board into the Rev. B. It works fine, but no noise improvement. I...

I wonder if this was an OpenClaw thing? The Internet is a weird place to be right now.

There's one here, although I haven't verified it personally: https://caps.wiki/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Digital_Audio_Power_Supply

That's a cool story, @Huguenot! Thanks for posting it.

I just picked up a Sonnet Crescendo G3 300/1M on eBay because it was cheap enough and seemed like it would be fun to play with. This is the "big" card that Sonnet also used for G4 upgrades, vs. the smaller design that appears to have been for G3s only. I noticed that the G4 version has two...

I'm pleased to be able to say from experience that this isn't strictly the case: https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/power-mac-7500-9600-bus-speed-overclocking.45179/#post-576375 I also have a tool for this...

Testing with another PDS card would be a good idea. Unfortunately both the machine and the card are suspect at this point.

I'm about 3 hours away and would be willing to help if you can't find someone closer. Send me a PM if you would like to discuss.

I'm not sure. I think it would be worth opening another thread if you can't figure it out. Honestly, most of the fun for me in stuff like this is getting the hardware working; once I do, I tend to lose interest and move on to the next thing I want to try to get working...

Interesting, thanks for digging that up. I will play around a little bit more between 5960 and 5961.

I had some time last night so I tried changing the device ID in the ROM to 0x5964 on a card that would otherwise be 0x5960. This was the result (viewed with an NVIDIA AGP card): As one might expect, it didn't work. My conclusion is either that 0x5960 is set in the hardware in a way I don't...

That board looks like it should only need compressed air, and maybe a soft brush. It would be wise to replace the electrolytic capacitors at this point. The red dots are the glue used to hold surface-mount components in place during soldering and they are harmless.

@herd that's really cool, thanks! I've gotten a lot of good video card info from VOGONS. It's a great resource. An eBay seller offered me a good price on a PCI Radeon 9200 SE. I haven't gone for it (yet). Based on the little research I've done, I expect the 9200 SE will have a device ID of...

Formatting aside, this is useful info. Thanks for posting it.

There was a G5-compatible PCIe X1900 GT, and its ROM is on The Mac Elite. As far as I know, nobody has gotten the AGP version working. The X1300 is, in theory, 1/4 of an X1900. So as a prerequisite, if the AGP X1900 could be made to work, then maybe the X1300 PCI could be made to work. Each is a...

Hmm, yeah, that's an X1300. Big firmware lift to get that working, definitely not something I'd be up for.

Thanks guys, yeah, having some fairly low-stakes fun with these old PCI cards. I finished up jt's VisionTek card today. It got a recap, and I replaced the diodes with STTH310s, which are 1.7V forward voltage. I measured 843mV across them while the card was running, so they're definitely doing...