On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:44 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > 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? > > Is your 500 GB a WD PATA drive?
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