On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Nicholas Fantuzzi wrote:
I own a similar Mini. I will make some recommendations based upon
my experiences. First, I'd strongly recommend you overclock the
1.25 GHz to 1.42 GHz. I've never heard of a 1.25 GHz that wouldn't
safely overclock, and the modification is relatively easy
I don't think the overclock is so easy..probably I should search of
an expert solder man :D
You don't need to solder. You can use a "pen" that uses conductive ink
to "draw" the jumper contacts. Also, there is the same stuff for
repairing the rear window defrost traces in cars, a type of conductive
paint. You can "cut" off any resistor that needs to be removed with a
tiny sharp edge, or a tiny screwdriver. Then "draw" on any resistor
with the conductive pen. No solder, no heat. The 1.25 to 1.42 is a
little harder than the 1.42 to 1.58.
Sorry, my english is terrible. I put a PATA to SATA adapter in place
of the superdrive. I know that I can't boot from USB but only from
FireWire. It's a chinese made adapter MCE Optibay like, I've found
it on eBay.
I'm not familiar with this product. I looked on the website <http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/index.html
> and the information there is contradictory. It appears there must
be multiple versions? The photo on the right clearly shows a PATA/IDE
HD with SATA connectors on the bay, so it's the reverse of what you
say you have. There's not much information, and not any information
about multiple models, so this isn't clear. If you say an 80 GB SATA
HD is recognized, and a 500 GB isn't, that's a big problem. Sometimes
if the HD is new, it needs to be reformatted into Apple format, but
this seems unlikely to be the problem, and if the HD is SATA I don't
know how you'd reformat it if it's not recognized in System Profiler
or Disk Utility. Sometimes adapters have firmware updates that correct
issues, so you might check for that, but I saw no support pages on the
MCE website, so it appears unlikely. Perhaps the 500 GB SATA HD is bad?
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