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well I stared to install 2001 and low and behold it would not start up. I was starting to think the hd was bad booted up system works and everything checked out ok. so what the heck. after much swapping parts etc i found where a small friend cut thru 1 wire one on the outside "the striped wire" of t...

I cut and lapped a 1 light band surface on both sides of the adapter plates and installed the dual processor. It fired up and is working great what a difference it makes. this was fun. What is the most powerful graphics card i can install. looks like i put a radeon 9200 red card in some time back is...

Thanks oh great one! I most likely have a copy some where that may be the hot set up I will keep you posted.

michael

We I started this conversion several years ago and now i am back at it. I tore down the cube and pulled the processor board. I got a dual 500 sawtooth processor and have worked to relocate the coil. no small task to relocate and have everything clear. This step is completed and i added the 80mm fan ...

I have a mac 7600 with a sonnet g3 400 crescendo card. I used os 9 helper to get 9.2.2 running on the machine and it works great except that if i run microsoft excell 98 it installs a bunch of extensions that i have to remove to get the machine to startup again. I can trash the microsoft extensions ...

well I am back in after 7 years so i am saying hello again from the madmann .

My macs have been in storage now its time to get them back running. I'll be back

well that is a problem

i had a great deal of issues with a beige g3 not sure what the issue was mostly the original hd controler i added a sonnet tempo no more issues

you must be carful which ide hd you use.

you need an older ide 33 or maybe 66

but not a ide 133 your hd controller cant keep up with the drive. i had similar problems with my beige g3

i can tell you disk doubler will only work up to os 7.6.1

after that no joy

michael

Picher is a super fund site. many of the homes were their in picher but the people were bought out and had left. it would of been worse had the buy outs not started some years ago a lot of people did not want to leave. now they have no choice. the government will not allow rebuilding. most of the de...

well this was a close one. I nearly drove into the tornado that hit Pitcher and sw missouri Saturday. All my mac are ok though. The big one missed my house by several miles

that is not right!

dan keep us posted. My blue and white is waiting to know the results.

well when does the b&w arrive.

I expect that the adb bus in the b&w may be part of the issue

has anyone have 10.5 running on a yikes g4 the only difference from it and a upgraded b&w would be the adb

just a thought

michael

the b&w had this problem and also the yikes i belive but think it was fixed by the time of the apg. Worst case you can get a pci ide controller, they are faster and the issue is resolved. I have the sonnet tempo 133 in a b&w

Dans right get os 10.3 or 10.4 on that machine
up the memory 1 gig if possible.
and then get firefox going its great
safari if you must as it sucks

michael

I am running tiger on my B&W at 700 mhz but i dont think leopard will work.

even if it could how slow would it be.

so from that i take it you recommend the imac over the mini

well it may be time for a new mac. I have been considering a g5 but why? high cost no upgrade ppc that leaves the intel macs. but which one. I bought one new mac a II ci in 1992 since then I have been low end mac all the way. The mac pros are not low end enough "cheap" that leaves the imac or the mi...

You should head over to info-macs sister site

system7today

look under the powerbook section. Their is a lot of info for these old machines.

most of the posts deal with the pb 1400 but the 520C is also found. I would say system 7.6.1 would run the best for this old powerbook