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  1. B S Magnet

    The Big Sad: your dead Macs ☠️

    I think a few of us around here have some of these in our homes. Straight-up — list and/or describe the dead Macs you have lying about! They can be donor and also gravely wounded Macs. I’ll start. In my dead lot: A1104 PowerBook G4 (bad RAM bridge, donor) M6411 iBook G3/466 (graphite, dead...
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    • circle of life dead mac the big sad upcycling
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  2. PowerPCFan

    I installed Leopard and now my computer shuts down by itself when I turn it on.

    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...
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    • cfcard dead mac failed hdd g5power pmg4 power mac powerbook g4 psu usb1.1
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  3. 000Jon000

    fixing dead imac g4

    17" iMac G4, GeForce 4 MX, 1GHz, 256MB Hi everyone, This imac was last powered on 6 months ago, it now makes no response to pressing power button at all. Here is what I tried: Replaced PRAM battery, reset PRAM by pressing the button, Hold power for 10 sec and plug back in, plug in and power at...
  4. Luisfer420

    Batery

    Hi! Im from Mexico and I just found this forum, hopefully someone can help me out.. The battery of my macbook pro is dead.. when turned on shows an X in the battery icon and if disconnected, turns off right away. I made a little research and yeah apparently de battery is dead and need a new...
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    MacBook Pro 2008 15"

    My 2008 MacBook pro is compleatly dead after 3 months in storage, it was no problem when I used it before storage , I cant find any way to wake it up, battery is ok but nothing happends when I push the start button, all reset commands described by Apple is tested, so it looks like it is some...
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