Here we go again!!! (Another eMac 700)

[coius]

Well, as you all remember, I had an incident after trying to overclock an eMac (my last one) when I go to post on craigslist about the issue and doing a trade for a board. Well... It kinda went like this:

Guy responds, says he has eMacs he needs fixed. Well, i get one up, the other (which I was going to keep) died on me during the install. Dead as a doornail. So, i deal with the guy again. The guy doesn't know this, but he brought me another one, that is not exactly like the other one. It's different, but it's actually the same model as my last one. Well, there was a problem. No video. System turned on, loaded. But no CRT. ok... Analog board is bad.

So I hauled out the carcus from the previous wreck that I caused. Popped the board out of the dead machine, into my system. It works!!! I am currently installing Leopard (Into the 2nd hour of install. Dang Apple) using a modified DVD-R DL. It's going well. I would also like to let you know that I ****ed up the antenna connector that connects from the eMac to the Airport card. The system CAME with an Airport card, which I am selling to a friend, but since it will be on a wired network, it's really no biggy. Not worth fixing.

Anyways, specs:

DVD/CD-RW (DVD Function not working. had the SAME problem with my last eMac)

80GB HDD (upgraded it from 40 while I was in it)

1GB (2x 512MB) PC-133

Fresh PRAM Battery.

Airport card (antenna not usable)

White Apple Keyboard (Taken from my mom's iMac, gonna get an aluminum for it , my mom already got one)

Might mouse (my mom got a logitech m600, same as mine)

Stand (swivel)

and...!! Leopard!!! (Well, i already owned this )

but anyways, I will let you guys know how it runs with these improvements

 

[coius]

Pics!!!

New eMac!!!

Sorry, it is kinda a crappy picture. It was taken by the Core2Duo iMac camera pointed at the eMac. it has a SUCKY camera on it. Ditto for the MacBook/Pro systems. They have a HORRIBLE camera compared to the iSight in Camera factor.

Oh, how I *WISH* apple would release another camera. I would buy it in a heartbeat!!!

 

[coius]

Notice it's installing Leopard

It's a Hacked DVD and somewhere in the middle of that mess is my family-pack Leopard (is now on 4 machines in the home) is the original DVD Retail (5-User Family License)

 

[aphetica]

Conquest threads are a hundred times better with pictures.

 

[coius]

I decided to take leopard off of it and put Tiger on it. It was too dang slow with 10.5 :-/ . even with 1GB RAM and a faster HDD, it just slowed to a crawl when I had 2 or more apps running at the same time. Tiger should be MUCH better, and I get most of the features of tiger

 

[coius]

The eMac in it's natural habitat!!!

it's a nice machine. I am typing this message on it right now. BTW, that white keyboard was my second liberation that day, but kinda not. It went to the iMac Core2Duo in our livingroom. My mom upgraded to the new Aluminum model because this one feels so horrible to work on. And it was either this, or the DV Keyboard from the iMac DV 2001 system that died a bit ago (Like less than a month )