hello everyone! i am undertaking a nice little project with an ibook clamshell i just acquired; upgrading the living hell out of it. so far i've done the following: max out the RAM, upgrade the hard drive to a 30GB SSD, and (attempt to) swap the 512KB L2 cache for 1MB.
this mainly went smoothly except for one issue. i did not realize the chips i put on got damaged due to excess heat when i was removing them from a powermac G4 CPU card, so the built in cache test failed in OS 9. i have new chips on the way and will update you with the results when i get them in, or if i decide to pull them from another G4 CPU card... also i would install a 7410 if A. i had the chip, and B. if i didn't suck at reballing processors
posting from my phone so sorry if the pictures got flipped.
also here is what i plan to do:
-overclock the FSB to 100MHz and run the CPU at 400MHz
-install an LED backlight into the original display (stock CFL backlight is worn out as you can see)
-install OS 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 (with shuriken to optimize performance)
-look into bumping up the onboard RAM to 64MB (there are 4 unpopulated pads on the motherboard which are provisions for another 32MB it looks like)
thanks for checking out this project. if you have any input please feel free to talk to me here.
this mainly went smoothly except for one issue. i did not realize the chips i put on got damaged due to excess heat when i was removing them from a powermac G4 CPU card, so the built in cache test failed in OS 9. i have new chips on the way and will update you with the results when i get them in, or if i decide to pull them from another G4 CPU card... also i would install a 7410 if A. i had the chip, and B. if i didn't suck at reballing processors
posting from my phone so sorry if the pictures got flipped.
also here is what i plan to do:
-overclock the FSB to 100MHz and run the CPU at 400MHz
-install an LED backlight into the original display (stock CFL backlight is worn out as you can see)
-install OS 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 (with shuriken to optimize performance)
-look into bumping up the onboard RAM to 64MB (there are 4 unpopulated pads on the motherboard which are provisions for another 32MB it looks like)
thanks for checking out this project. if you have any input please feel free to talk to me here.
