So... does not natively supported (128 GB+ hard drives) mean won't
work at all without mystery voodoo or maybe even with it?
Many G4 Macs can have the 48-bit LBA Property added persistently (that
is, semi-permanently) to their PRAMs.
Sure, once the PRAM is cleared, the property reverts to
NOTE: This is a bit general, and I might yet find the answers I'm
looking for in the archives. Feel free to ignore me if the topic has
already been covered exhaustively there.
Yes, they are, but they are fair questions.
Questions:
1. How specific is the power supply to a certain Power Mac
I've looked at the Sonnet Tempo HD PCI card (part # THD-MW). A
question: What does Bootability - Not supported mean? Not (gulp)
what seems the most obvious, that you couldn't boot up from a drive
connected to it, right? That wouldn't be good. Especially after I was
so proud of myself for
I think anything you spend on this machine would automatically be more
than its worth. A Quicksilver 2002 would be a far superior investment,
since it supports large PATA drives out of the box.
QS 2002s are great machines.
Also QS 2001s and DAs.
For some of the later G4s it is NOT required
Sorry, another rather simple question that I couldn't find an answer
to scouring the archives here. Going from a Gigabit Ethernet Power Mac
G4 to a Sawtooth, I didn't know if I'd notice so much of a difference
in connection speed. But I do (of course, you're saying). I have found
the
These are tough to find in stock any more, except at OWC where the
7448 dual 1.8 is $779.99. I sometimes wonder if their claims about
the speed can be true ...
Right, and particularly so as Freescale has NOT been making any PPC chips
for Macs which are faster than 1.4 GHz for years.
4. Will it even work on this Sawtooth (read something about 100 MHz
bus speed being a stumbling block, might have misunderstood).
100 MHz bus is not a stumbling block per se, lack of a Key Largo ATA chip is.
Certainly, the (100 MHz bus) gigabit Ethernet PPC Macs have a Key Largo
chip, and so
The G3-G4's use half-sized AA batteries, which are some (if not that one
that
isn't half) standard. You should find them at places where they sell
electronic parts at suitable prizes. I bought mine at a regular electonics
shop (where they sell all kinds of diodes, capacitors, fuses, ... and
Long shot here, but is it possible to stuff a totally different (say,
Netgear Wireless G) PCMCIA card into the Airport slot inside the G4
PowerMac?
The number of pins and other physical characteristics (exception: length)
are the same as a PCMCIA/Cardbus, but the functions are different.
An
Hi everyone, I am new here. I have a question relating to one of my Beige
G3
Powermacs, it is the 266mhz model with 128mb of RAM. I am looking to
install OS
X 10.2 and I was wondering if I would need to update the firmware. Right
now I
have no idea what version the firmware is and I do not
I forget where exactly it is on the Mobo, but it looks like this
http://eshop.macsales.com/images/items/cudabutton.jpg
That is a surface-mounted CUDA button, as used on the last PPC Macs.
Earlier PPC Macs used a through-hole CUDA button, which had a red-colored
button.
Similar buttons were
The 7200 RPM drives have faster seek times. There may also be a
higher Bus speed and a larger buffer, making data access, transfer
and use by software more rapid.
So far as price, cyberguys.com has Western Digital IDE/ATA drives in
3.5 diameter. These have the 7200 RPM speed you're looking
Cyberguys also has 2.5 drives, but all of the drives in this size,
IDE/ATA and SATA, are 5400 RPM. The 2.5IDE/ATA drives are Western
Digital and come in 80GB ($57), 160GB ($72) and 250GB ($88)
capacities.
Micro Center stocks WD ATAs in up to and including 320 GB.
Micro Center's price on
A place named iFixIt stocks a drive cage and adapter which replaces the
ATA CD or DVD drive with a second hard drive. Doesn't come with any of the
required mounting screws, however.
There are a number of folks on ePrey (sic) which are selling a similar
product, but is SATA-to-SATA, for later
A 7,200 RPM HD is DEFINITELY faster in a FW400 enclosure than either a
5,400 RPM or 4,200 RPM. Have you ever even booted from Firewire on a
daily basis? Have you made measurements? Have you streamed video off a
Firewire enclosure? Obviously your experience is limited.
The rotational speed of
I recently acquired a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver (867mHZ, 1.25 gb RAM)
and am in the process of upgrading and updating it. I've got most
things on my list accomplished but I'm somewhat confused about what
type of wireless would be best for this machine.
If you want 100 percent Airport Extreme
Of course, drives today are almost ten times faster (more than?) but
the principles haven't changed a bit.A 133 MB/s interface doesn't
matter one wit, if the drive can only deliver 70MB/s of data.
And, the internal performance of some drives is as low as 40 MB/s.
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Google on ToasterClone 1.0 and download it from the referenced site.
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Tested on 10.6.6 (an i5-760 Hack using an ASRock P55 Pro mobo).
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Unless you've added a PCI USB 2.0 card, your Quicksilver should have
limited capability using a Belkin 54g USB adapter via the built-in USB
1.1 port. The performance should be slower than your G4 Mini's native
54g Airport Extreme card, and about the same as your iBook G3/800 with
original
For, say, QS 2002 or earlier Macks, a Mini-PCI Broadcom card in a
Mini-PCI-to-PCI adapter will more than do the job, and for about US$10,
too.
Hwill that work in an airport slot, as in a laptop?
Works in a laptop in its Mini-PCI slot.
Works in a desktop, in its PCI slot (using the
There are also a few PCI wifi adapters that are Broadcom based and
will be read as an Airport Extreme card. I'm using a Belkin one in my
Quicksilver right now. Gotta make sure it's the right one, though.
I have a few of those, too.
Most are the non-Airport-compatible versions, however.
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would someone be able to send a quick link to what exactly encompasses
a mini pci to pci adapter...just so i know i'm buying the correct
part. i searched on ebay and a few different things came up with the
same name.
Mini-PCI Broadcom Airport-compatible WiFi card ...
I wanted to upgrade my QS 2002 to SATA, and follow my upgrade of my DA
Dual 533 with a Firmtek Seritek 1S2 ...
But ...
According to owcomputing.com and bhphotovideo.com ... they are
discontinued?
Alternatives? They are available from Firmtek ... does this mean
support for PCI slot Macs
Any tip on an N mini pci card airport compatible?
I believe you'd have to go with a Mini-PCI-e card and adapter, and that
will cost a lot more money.
Plus, you have to have a 1x PCI-e slot available.
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The best that I can get with my 22 Samsung Synchmaster 22 wide
screen is 1680x1050.
My first generation G4 Mini gives me 1900 x 1200 at 60 Hz.
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I have a G4 Mac Mini 1.25 that I want to overclock to 1.42, has
anyone had experience doing this? Also by chance is there a set of
instructions on how to do it?
I once overclocked a 1.42 to 1.5.
I think 1.25 to 1.42 may be a stretch, but it might work.
I Googled on the usual suspects and
... you can count on having to add more ventilation and
better cooling. Those tended to have cooling issues without the
overclocking.
Indeed so.
Only the last (and greatest) G4s are suitable for overclocking.
It was dicey, at best, for 1.42 to 1.5, and it is almost suicidal for 1.25
to
I have Macs that have new and good PRAM batteries but a lot of times the
machines act like the PRAM battery is bad. Is there a AHT or something
like one that tests that section of the machine and system? It always
seems to be a crap shoot as to weather the PMU or battery is bad, A volt
meter
Be aware that a DVM or DMM has an internal battery (actually, one or
more), and that the DVM/DMM battery is also part of the reference
circuit for computation of voltage (and resistance and possibly other
measurements, but primarily voltage and resistance) and a worn-out
internal battery in
I did try drive 0 as slave and 1 as master - no change, also both as
cable select - no difference.
Is it perhaps a firmware issue, either with the G4 or the non-Apple
drives perhaps?
Early optical drives installed by Apple preferred Master, even though the
optical cable is indeed of the
The BW G3 doesn't support drives over 128 GB on its main drive bus, but
the UltraATA 66 bus used by the optical drives supports so-called Big
Drives - and it's twice as fast.
The HD bus is Ultra/33 (33 MB/s).
The Optical bus is DMA (16.67 MB/s).
Both buses can support large drives using the
Also, I have a Yikes and I think a DA533 sitting here, is it possible
to use one of those power supplies to test it with?
Alas, although Apple used essentially the same PSU design in many G4
models, the cables and connectors to the motherboard are different.
There are 20, 22 and 24 pin
Then there's the question of whether you want to trust a company with
your music and photos - a company that could potentially go defunct,
and take your data with them.
and any
encryption based on factoring large primes is a TOTAL illusion. the
gov't pushed that form of encryption
Ok so that option is out. Does this sound like a power supply or
something else!
Sounds much more like a weak or dead PRAM battery, actually.
The load on the PRAM battery is only a few nano-amperes, just enough to
keep alive the RAM within the RTC function (the same basic Motorola RTC
chip
Quick question I just ran to Radio Shack and he noticed what I did -
the
battery that came out of the machine has a very high tip to it. Much
higher
than the spares I had and what he has in stock.
Is that normal with this particular battery? There is a shop I can check
with locally
Drivers were included on a CD. The card worked with Tiger, no sweat.
Ran into some snags with OS 9, but my wireless router CD helped bail
me out. Actually, it might have helped me configure Tiger as well. I
don't recall having to do much of anything manually. (What I tried
failed, anyway).
How might I inquire as to the status of the PCI ethernet card and its
drivers through Terminal? Is looking at a log (which log?) in Console
after I start Panther likely to shed any light on the situation?
By using I/O Registry Explorer, part of the X11 stuff, and downloadable
from Apple's web
Just 2 weeks ago I composed my QS 800/'02 as follows:
HD 75 GB with 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 in the lower bay
HD 75 GB with 10.5.8 in the upper bay
HD 115 GB for storage in the Zip bay
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D
1,5 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TwinView conn.to a LaCie electr22b3
ATY,Rage128
1. Purchase a Antec 430 Watt Power Supply, about $50.00
2. Purchase from Donald Hall, http://atxg4.com/ about $13.00
Generic PSUs, the as the referenced Antec, have #6-32 UNC fasteners,
whereas Macs have M3.5-0.6 fasteners.
Either replace all PSU fasteners with #6-32 UNC fasteners of the same
SOmedays ago I did a Powerpc FAQon macrumors,where I talk about some
solutions for wifi,if anyone interested here is the link:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1091765
I use the COnceptronics C300Ri V3 card,it is a 300Mbps N Wifi card
with ralink Rt3060 chip,and it is working
Here is an opposite take on claiming fixes. In the mid-1970s, I
became involved in a system that had just come online with what was
already an antiquated architecture: CDC 6400 computers running SDC's
TDMS for the database, with dumb terminals and other peripherals wired
to controllers, in
i recently installed a pci broadcom card w/ antenna in my mdd and it
snapped into place and seemed like it was good to go but I'm still not
getting any signal. is there something more that needs to be done? do
drivers need to be installed? i clicked on the about this mac tab
and under the
I have a Pioneer DVR 115 which suddenly will not burn
CD or DVD's. I have checked cables and cleaned
with a cleaning disk. OS 10.5.8 on a G4 with 2
meg of ram and 1gig sonnet processor. First noticed
when burn a play-list from iTunes 10.0.2.
Burners have a finite lifetime.
Burning
followed the exact instructions. after double clicking on the
downloaded file the name of it is bcm43xx_enabler.sh rather than
having the version tagging along. don't know if that makes a
difference. still no luck here. : (
There ARE cases, as yet unenumerated, where an apparently
Lite-On makes a decent IDE burner ... about $22 from NewEgg.
Agreed. Burners rarely last longer than 5 years if used regularly. I
can recommend this Samsung model as a drop-in replacement for G4 power
macs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151176
I've had
I have a 112D which replaced one that lasted about 6 mos. After 3 or 4
years of occasional use, it now won't burn CDs, but handles DVDs just fine
and will read CDs and DVDs fine. I've burned at least 50 DVDs since then
with zero coasters. I had never had problems with this 100 pack of TDK CDs
re: Broadcom 4318 modules which I have purchased on ePrey (sic) from
a Hong Kong-based seller
Can you share link to a PCI card from China that is known to have
Broadcom modules?
I purchased one to test -- it worked great -- then bought 12 more for
a lab and they all didn't work because
If I am not mistaken, this DVR was at one time oem from Apple. If it
is, then I had the same problem. I got mine from OWC. Mine wouldn't
burn CD's but it would read CD's and DVD's. Anyway, I wound up
replacing it. Fortunately, they are cheap.
Apple has used a variety of Pioneer drives.
The
It's a private auction, seller based in China who claims to have 100%
positive
feedback.
Always a crap-shoot with a private, foreign auction.
That having been said, I have purchased computer goods and industrial
machinery goods from China-based sellers, and the worst that ever happened
was
Applicable Mini-PCI cards may be identified in two ways:
1) by manufacturer-to-MAC-address
Examples:
Broadcom is 000DB6, 001018, 001BE9, 18C086 and 0005B5, and possibly
others; or
2) by MAC-address-to-manufacturer
Example:
0016cf is Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
Now, most of the cards
Biggest problem I've come across to date is that unless I can find
someone who makes decent sized power supplies with enough wattage and
still fit inside the case, your pretty much left either modifying your
case to fit it, or putting the power supply outside (which is what I
usually do). I
I believe that the upgrade which the original poster linked to does
not support the MDD. At least, the item description seemed to list
all the G4s except the MDD.
That board is specifically for 133 MHz bus machines ... DAs or QSes.
Giga-Designs had a board which was specifically designed
I think a good quality SATA control is worth it. The performance is
sweet. And you'll save a bit down the road as SATA HD prices get
lower and lower and lower.
The capacity of IDE/PATA drives have already topped-out, and there is no
more market for, or interest in improved capacity IDE/PATA
Is it safe to say the 133mhz ram and 100mhz ram don't mix?
On a 66 MHz bus machine, you may mix PC66, PC100 and PC133 RAM in any order.
On a 100 MHz bus machine, you may mix PC100 and PC133 RAM in any order.
On a 133MHz bus machine, only PC133 RAM is permitted.
Most models do not support
Powermac G4 MDD dual 1.25 takes...? low or high
density ram?
I have 3 high density 512mb chips... am I good to go?
It takes what it takes. PERIOD!
Pre-MDD requires, no, demands, low density.
Later models may, indeed, accept low density or so-called high density.
No
I have 3 high density 512mb chips... am I good to go?
You know, there are so-called high density RAM which are actually low
density RAM, but are stacked two-chips-high, and these, too, also present
problems.
My Brother printers (several kinds, including 5-in-1 monochrome and a
4-color) require
Pressing C on the keyboard does nothing.
IF you are using a KVM switch, DON'T.
Certain basic operations, such as Open Firmware, expect a real keyboard to
be attached to the USB port (the monitor, however, need not be connected
directly).
So ...
IF using a KVM switch, select the Mac to the
For an x86 Mac, either FW or USB will work just fine. I prefer FW
because it's faster and more reliable than USB.
If using USB 3.0, say, and it is an add-in 3.0 card, then you're stuck,
sort-of, even if it is a Reneses/NEC-based card.
You can back-up using CCC at 3.0 speed, but booting must
What kind of wireless cards are there that I can buy?
The most cost-effective is a true Airport Extreme (802.11a/b/g) Mini-PCI
card (Broadcom chipset, the same as Apple uses) and a Mini-PCI-to-PCI
adapter, purchased off of eBay, from Hong Kong.
I have a dozen such combos here, and all have
Just curious here, is the Airport extreme card a mini-pci card? will it
fit into a mini-pci slot? has anybody tried this?
The Broadcom cards which are sold for use in Dell laptops are indeed
Mini-PCI cards.
For use in a desktop Mac, you would also use a Mini-PCI-to-PCI adapter
card, one which
Peter, in another post I asked if you would/could send me those ebay
links? If it's not too much trouble that is:-) Jeff
I did, but I'll do it again.
1) the Broadcom-licensed 4318 Mini-PCI card itself (made in China under
license from Broadcom, and generally sold to Dell and many other laptop
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Broadcom-wireless-wifi-B-G-mini-PCI-card-BCM4318-/260726618089
For example, this card's MAC address begins 00179E (you can read that on
the back of the card).
This indicates that Sirit Inc actually made the card.
One clue to the widespread use of this very same design,
The Digital Audio has this quirk that it has 3 physical RAM slots but
4 logical ones.
System buses have a finite load capacity.
The trade-off was the sum of slots on the associated LSI chip is seven.
Earlier models had three PCI slots and four RAM slots, for a total of seven.
DA and QS
Replace the pram. They aren't expensive, or difficult to replace, and most
likely is causing all your problems. Repairing the permissions is always a
good idea to.
Losing time is almost always the PRAM battery.
They are nominally 3.6 volts, but brand new ones will usually measure 3.68
volts,
gosh, and you haven't been thrown into a window-less (pun intended)
dungeon below SJ's house for EULA violations, yet?
Apple's Draconian EULA is essentially unenforceable against individual
end-users.
Sure, there is, indeed, case law against blatantly commercial violations
of its EULA
IBM had no interest in making low-power, high-performance PPC processors
for Apple, Motorola, errr, 'Freescale' couldn't and the primary driver of
computer sales (laptops) was rapidly leaving Apple behind.
IBM did, indeed, make such processors.
They are now at G7-level, which is at least
I have to ask though with the
X86 Mac what on earth was Apple thinking with Intel integrated
graphics. Intel integrated GPUs were considered a joke on the Wintel
side long before Apple made the switch so why got with a graphics
platform that many consider to be an oxymoron especially
Only one Mac uses Intel graphics
A few more than one.
I'm counting at least 12 models with three different families of Intel
graphics.
Without these many [ a ] hackintosh would be SOL.
And, the Macks would be SOL, too.
Although all standard distributions have GMA950 and GMAX3100 support
The OS is what you use; the nuts and bolts don't
matter...
My $.02 ...
And, the kernel of that OS is copyright by The Regents of The University
of California, before there ever was a 68K Mac, much less a PPC Mac or an
Intel Mac.
One of the reasons Hackintoshing is so easy, now, is the kernel
Which SMC do you use?
I build my own DSDTs, by hand.
The device within the DSDT is a usual one.
Device (BUS0)
{
Name (_CID, smbus)
Name (_ADR, Zero)
Device (DVL0)
{
Is it possible to use a Quicksilver G4 power supply in a digital audio G4?
No, 24 pins + 4 pins (two cables) in QS; 22 pins (one cable) in DA.
Although the two are basically the same mobo (4 PCI slots, 3 RAM slots,
similar processor location) the power distributions are quite different
If this site is correct, then I would expect the Quicksilver G4
supply to be easily modified to work in
the Audio Digital G4. This is what I`m trying to find out.
I have a G4 Audio Digital 733 which has a failed supply.
If the Quicksilver G4 supply can be modified, I`d like to
use it. If
If this site is correct, then I would expect the Quicksilver G4
supply to be easily modified to work in
the Audio Digital G4. This is what I`m trying to find out.
I have a G4 Audio Digital 733 which has a failed supply.
If the Quicksilver G4 supply can be modified, I`d like to
use it. If
Fax is a dying technology, it would certainly be easier to scan the
documents and then email them, which I would think would nearly always
be the preferred solution.
Legally speaking, possessing faxed documents with a signature are usually
considered the same as possessing the original;
Sorry. This is wrong.
A dual processor card from a Gigabit Ethernet won't fit *physically* into
a
Digitial Audio/Quicksilver/Quicksilver 2002. It is mirrored in its design
– it
would extend towards the memory banks and overlap them, hence won't be
fittable
at all (even though the
BUT… before I can do that, I need to know for sure if the Dual-1 GHz
QS2002
has any issues in a QS2001.
Because otherwise (both cases) I'll have to wipe the dream of 2×1 GHz out
of
my mind…
Any QS 2001 proc will work in a QS 2002.
Any QS 2002 proc will work in a QS 2001.
Actually, the
Speaking of LBA48... Yellow Dog Linux and Debian Linux both report and use
the full 250 GB (because that is the size of my HD) in my QS 2001. But Mac
OS 10.5 sees it as a 128 GB drive. I know this has nothing to do with the
thread. But good info none the less.
MacOS X is pretty blind. It is
The chief danger in that script is that if you do an OF reset you
will lose access to the part of the drive above 128Gb until you
re-activate the script. If you keep your current 128Gb partition that will
still be available, just any new partition you create will not be
available. You might
Power Mac G4 AGP Sawtooth 1.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1 each SATA (750 GB)
PATA (160 GB) hard drives, gigabit ethernet USB 2.0, ATI Radeon 9800
Pro, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 Leopard 10.5.8
Try for an Initio-based SATA card.
These are (or were) sold by LaCie, OWC and possibly others.
Some are all
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I hope this isn't too complicated. (I tend to write too much.)
Just remember this: Using the LBA48 property on a Mac that doesn't support
it
(without hacking), ALWAYS end and start your paritions at 128 GB!
Because then it won't see anything at all of the
Whether you use the LBA48 technique, or buy a PCI ATA/IDE card, the
extra space still hasn't been mapped out by the OS. I believe it all
has to be linked together at the initial partitioning time as well.
A PCI card necessarily models the HD as SCSI.
There have been these versions of the
Is there a way for us with G4's to play Netflix movies on our Mac's?
Everything I read says I have to have an Intel Mac.
It is a Netflix issue.
Micosoft's Silverlight is available for PPC Macs, but Netflix won't
support anything except Intel Macs (and, of course Intel Hacks, after
making a
For the OP perhaps a 'repeater' would solve your problem?
Alas, many of the Broadcom (and perhaps other) WiFi sticks are power-hungry.
Some, in my experience many Broadcom Mini-PCI-e sticks, will degrade over
time, thereby necessitating a replacement.
The first indication of the impending
Why not just upgrade the burner in the Gig-E?
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-11170CAWELAID=240987833
That is the best option.
SATA burners are now priced significantly below IDE burners.
A 22X IDE burner should be available from NewEgg or TigerDirect for under
$25, with free
Netflix is absolutely not Intel only. Silverlight installs for
supported browsers and runs on AMD chipsets too.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y96fe7v
As I stated earlier, there IS a Silverlight installer for PPC Macs.
The Intel version is also applicable to AMD as both are Intel_64/i386,
I run Netflix on several Hackintosh systems. There is NO modifying of any
kind required to install SilverLight on a Hackintosh.
Well there IS a required alteration.
The installation package must be opened and the installation_check module
must be deleted, then the package must be closed.
Peter, I have NEVER modified in any way the SilverLight installer to make
it
install on a Hackintosh. I've installed SilverLight on 7 different
Hackintosh systems, with NO modification. What system did you install on
that required a modification?
Usually, I install applications on my Hacks
If Apple goes to ARM on laptops, wouldn't that be like going back to the
PowerPC. I know that the times are different today and that ARM is way
better off than PowerPC was in 2005 as far as Apple is concerned, but
still,
what would the performance of say future equivalent of MacBook pro be?
If I REALLY wanted SCSI on my Mini, I would adapt the top slot of the
riser (the one for the optical drive) first to standard IDE, and second
to
SCSI using a SCSIDE card, available from ACARD.
The Acard product converts a SCSI host to an IDE device. I would need
the opposite conversion.
If I do anything with this SCSI idea I'll need an Airport card or
combo Airport/Bluetooth card from which to reverse engineer the
connections. Anyone have a dead one they'd like to dispose of?
Failing that, is there an inexpensive source of these cards or have
they become expensive?
If I
Peter, the Acard product, such as the 7720U let's one put a newer IDE
device such as a new IDE hard drive into an older computer equipped
with a SCSI interface. So, for example, one can put a 750GB PATA
drive into an old SE/30 on the SE/30's SCSI bus.
This would be the opposite situation.
Here I was, looking at my ACARD 7720UW and I was thinking completely
backwards.
Thanks for setting me straight!
No problem. I've been on the confused side often enough.
I believe all ACARD SCSIDE devices are architected in the same way, or
at least in a very similar way: a bi-directional
I'm looking for a used, good-condition PowerBook that will run OS X
(and, optionally, boot into OS 9 as well). Do listees have any
recommendations, both as to model and a reputable source for same?
The need is primarily for research (i.e., note-taking) and scanning
photos from various
I'm considering replacing the case fan in my Sawtooth with a new and
different one, a cooler and supposedly quieter model. I haven't
replaced a case fan before. What worries me, besides everything, is
what I'm going to encounter in how the fan is connected to the power
supply. (The new fan
It is my understanding that as long as the Powermac shares the same Front
Side Bus, in this case, a 133 MHz, then yes, a CPU from a later model will
be compatible.
There are two 133 MHz processor standards: DA and QS.
Processor card power comes from the motherboard on a DA.
Processor card
Because 450MHz is about the fastest 100MHz CPU that Apple has used,
your only option would be a CPU upgrade like Sonnet etc.
There was a 500 MHz dual processor.
A related dual processor for a 133 MHz but was 533 MHz.
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Has anyone successfully (or unsuccessfully) used a RealTek 8169 based
gigabit ethernet card in a Beige G3 under OSX?
Drivers for the 8169 were released by Realtek years ago.
The 10.3 driver came first, then the 10.4 driver.
Finally, Realtek went back and even did a 9.x driver for it.
A 'Net
I'm working from memory here, as the machine is at home, but I do
remember that it was pci10ec,8169 and I think the vendor ID was 10ec
and card or device ID was 8169. I remember that, because the RealTek
drivers include a ReadMe about changing the ID/Name in the mumble
list if the card
I'm wondering if i would be worth it to replace my currrent PowerMac
G4 867Mhz with a G3 of some sort with a 1GHz processor upgrade. All I
need it for is some rough video editing mostly, so I'd add Firewire
cards. Would a 1GHz G3 outperform a 867 G4?
Possibly.
I have a 1 GHz G3 machine, but
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