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    Overheating Issue with FreeBSD on PowerBook G4 6,4

    Greetings, After a quarter-century hiatus, I'm back to BSD and hoping to make use of an old PowerBook G4 6,4 (12" 1.33GHz 1.25GB) to experiment with the various BSDs before picking one and putting it to work. I threw out the HDD and replaced it with an IDE - mSATA adapter and a pair of 60GB...
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    Help with Powerbook G4

    Hey all, I picked up a 12" Powerbook G4 a short while ago and am having some issues. I knew that it wasn't "running" when I bought it, so this is on me. To start: when I boot it up, I get a blinking folder screen with no option to do anything. I've read that is usually because it cannot find...
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    PowerBook G4 won't power on

    I bought a 12" PB G4 (model A1010, 1.33 GHz) from eBay, and I'm having trouble getting it to boot. I bought a 3rd-party 65W adapter, which appears to charge the battery just fine - the indicators on the battery blink in sequence as the battery charges. However, nothing happens when I press the...