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My top two favourite Mac designs have to be the Power Mac G4 Cube and the late 2013 Mac Pro (6,1). I’m so happy and grateful to have been able to get my hands on both, each for a really good price and in great condition. Figured they look really nice side by side exposing their internals and...

I have an interesting question for you all. I have an interest in how video card support actually works after Mac OS is booted. OS9 likely won’t work this way, but I can’t help wondering: If you have a Mac version 9200 pci which seem plentiful and cheap, can you use a better video card in the...

A few days ago, I used CCCloner to back up my 867MHz PowerBook G4 (aluminum version, not the TiBook) and make a full bootable copy of its hard drive. I copied to a 30gb USB and it took 8.5 hours :rolleyes: USB 1.1 is much worse than I remembered it, I'm used to 2.0 on my 2015 imac, and that...

Hey all, I recently acquired a 2000 Graphite Gigabit Ethernet Power Mac G4 from an estate sale, and it came with the mouse, keyboard, monitor, and everything. It’s in very good condition, but the thing doesn’t power on right now because the clock battery inside of it is dead, so I’ve ordered a...

Hi, I have a Power Mac G5 running Mac OS X 10.3.0. I have installed a DVD RW drive that supports burning and reading dual-layer DVDs as the original one only can read burned dual-layer DVDs but when I installed the new one the burning option was disabled in disk utility and the system profiler...

I have a PowerMac G4 model M8570 and when I try to turn it on, the fan and the DS18 light turn red, but there is nothing on the monitor and no Apple’s classic startup chime. The hard drive turn on but there is nothing on the screen, it’s not showing me life. I checked for the BIOS battery but it...

Hey! So I recently got a PowerMac G5 and when I first booted it, just the fans where spinning but nothing else. I thought I could solve that problem later and decided to clean the Mac up, since there was dust everywhere. After I did that, I wanted to turn it on again. But nothing happened. When...

Hey guys. I have an iMac g3 600MHz Graphite (slot loading) and am looking for a replacement optical drive. As is common with these computers, the optical drive stopped working a while back. I decided that instead of simply replacing it with another CD-RW drive, I would upgrade it to a combo...

Hi, So of late have been noticing glitches (strange lighting artifacts, lines across screen etc) during video playback in Games or Movies, am wondering if it's the Vid card is going bad (ATI Radeon 1900XT VRAM 256MB) or if its my Monitor? An old but still functioning Apple 22" Cinema Display...

Hi, I have a Power Mac which has lost the use of its inbuilt network port -its old and I suspect some kind of electrical fault. Since I want to use Wifi anyway to upgrade it from 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) I have borrowed a Tenda usb wifi dongle. This has drivers etc for Snow Leopard on its web site...

Hi my name is Jason, and I got the insanely lucky opportunity to pick up an ram/hdd-less and untested dual 2.7 ghz G5 Power Mac for only $3 from a Goodwill Computer Works that was about to send it off to be scrapped. Too make a long story short, one PRAM zapping, SMU reset, a 250gb sata hdd...

I just picked up a dual 1.25 MDD for free from a friend who had it sitting in their basement, last used in 2010. I brought it home and tried starting it, but the power button lights up, then dies. Based on some googling, this seems to be a sign of a dead PSU, which seems fairly common on these...

I just recently bought a G5 Power-mac for a dollar, and nothing works. It powers up, and then the fans continually ramp up. I have tries moving the RAM around according to the (online) manual, and its all identical so I just left it the way it was, just inverted. The graphics card is the 6800...

Hi, I recently got a B&W tower PowerMac G3 (don't know exactly which model) without DVD reader and HDD. I powered it and saw a grey screen with a folder and a question mark followed by the finder logo. Probably couldn't find OS X (duh). At least it booted. I powered it off, got a OS X Tiger...

Quick question here. I'm looking for a video card to upgrade the stock Rage 128 in my Cube and am in a bit of a dilemma. I don't have another AGP computer to flash a PC video card, I'm using an Apple Studio Display via ADC (would prefer to avoid bulky DVI/VGA adapter cables), and Quartz...

This is a strange problem and I have no idea as to what is causing it. So, I'm trying to install iWork '09 on my G5 through a DVD. But whenever I put the DVD in the drive, it ejects it a few seconds later. So I tried an iLife '09 DVD and the drive read it just fine. So I assumed that the iWork...

Hello! I've been thinking about upgrading a 400 MHz AGP-graphics Power Mac G4. Get a SATA SSD, gigabit ethernet, USB 2.0 (3.0 if even possible), and of course a faster processor for Leopard. However, I am aware of the slow, 100 MHz RAM speed. How would that affect performance, even with 2GB of...