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  1. madmax_2069

    DOA G3 MT

    The Personality cards in the Beige G3 line had a tendancy (or was shipped like that) to work loose or not to be fully seated. the issue was the metel tab that cought on the casing not allowing the card to be properly seated. bending the tab up a little will allow the card to go down further and...
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    Help upgrading g3 B&W powermac

    i think this site will have what you need http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~t-imai/maine.html just click on Mac tuneup and select the Mac of your choosing. when you choose B&W or PCI G4 (at least i think your talking about a B&W, correct me if i am wrong) the first page will show you the...
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    Sharing an OS X internet connection with a Nintendo Wii

    here is what i get when i type in ifconfig en0 into terminal. en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::203:93ff:fe1b:7ab6%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:03:93:1b:7a:b6 media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active supported...
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    Sharing an OS X internet connection with a Nintendo Wii

    i shared a internet connection with my Xbox using my Beige G3 AIO with the Xbox hooked to its ethernet and the Beige G3 using wifi. i kept running into a DNS error cause i was using the wrong IP address setting on the Xbox. below is what i dd to get everything working. in OS X keep the internet...
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    CD stuck in slot-load drive

    and you don't call a software issue that is keeping the drive from ejecting the CD a emergency. that is why that feature is there. that is not a normal way to eject a disk. on a QS G4 ( i know his isn't but its a example), there is no accessible eject button, if you have a KB that has no eject...
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    CD stuck in slot-load drive

    have you tried holding the mouse button when you start the Mac, that is a emergency eject system on a Mac for issues like these. i have never done it so i don't know if you power on the mac and hold the mouse button when you hear the start sound, or hold the mouse button down before you power...
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    A step closer to Leopard on a beige??

    it might be doable on a Beige G3 but i would not run it on one, i have issues with Leopard on my DA 533 due to only having 768mb ram (right now) with the HDD always swapping. with the slower bus and slower speed of the IDE bus on the beige G3 (minus the IDE bus if you have a PCI IDE controller)...
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    Help with Internet, please

    does that router have a unused ethernet port, if it does just buy a long ethernet cable and connect it to the iMac and run it to the router. or buy a wifi router, and a wifi card for the iMac.
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    Help with Internet, please

    if you want to use the internet on both the PC and iMac using the DSL modem i suggest buying a router so you can have both the PC and Mac using the same connection. all you do is plug the router using its wan port via ethernet up to the DSL modems ethernet port and connect each computer to the...
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    I would like to build a game machine

    i second the motion to use a G4 for gaming as for a USB gamepad/joystick i use a gamemon USB hub that has 1 PS2 port, 1 Gamecube port, 1 Xbox port, and 2 USB ports it works well but in OS X, i cant remember if i tried using it in OS 9 but some reason i remembered using a PSX controller with...
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    Java development on a 68k

    this sounds interesting.
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    Got a G4...

      not trying to be mean or anything, you should always look at the date before posting if its something deep in the pages or if browsing threw someone's posts list (cause the user could not be active anymore and could have been from a wile ago, like this one), if its a few months (not being...
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    PowerMac G3-G4 score

    very nice
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    Dual G4 Processor

    i think its done by moving some surface mount resistors on the card If i am not mistaken. i cant find any place that shows how to do it on that systems CPU i thought this link would have it http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~t-imai/maine.html but it only has G4 listings of PCI G4, DA and above. have...
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    Would this work?

    i would try that simm stacker if its the proper pin count, its a good possibility that it would work, it would almost be worth a little over $9 to find out.
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    Would this work?

    your talking about one of these, it might if there is room. http://cgi.ebay.com/2X72-Sims-Memory-Stacker-NEW_W0QQitemZ200078180755QQcmdZViewItem
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    Reminder:Firewire Target Disk mode won't copy desktop items

    yea as alk said hold the option key when you drop the file/s to where you want them to make a actual copy of the file/s
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    Idea for the forums: Featured Member

    I guess that excluding posts from the lounge would make things a bit easier since the majority of the posts there are useless knowledge
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    Two G4s in a beige!

    the reason they pulled these off the market was due to it causing data corruption. also i think that you could only run from 1 CPU on it under OS X IIRC, i am not sure if it was due to lack of drivers for OS X or was a hardware limitation not supporting dual CPUs
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    Idea for the forums: Featured Member

    It could go off of a point system, like who contributed to help others gets a point, who ever goes off topic or starts trouble gets a point deducted, look at the Macs they have in their collection and what they have done on it or did to it. and could have a opt out for this also. but this would...
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