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powermac g4 agp

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    Flashing a 9800 pro over VNC

    Hi guys. I finally picked up an Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer for my 9800pro recently, but unfortunately seem to have buggered up the card fitting it. The screen now has a lot of artefacts, mostly in vertical rows. I suspect I tightened the rear screws too hard and the pressure flexed the PCB...
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    Best PCI Upgrades for a PowerMac G4

    Hello all, I decided to make this post here because I was interested in knowing what some of you have used in terms of PCI upgrades for a PowerMac G4 AGP. I have a PowerMac G4 Digital Audio with an upgraded GPU with no populated PCI cards at the moment. I'm wondering what would be some good...
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    Resolved CPU Upgrades - The PowerMac G4 Digital Audio (DA)

    Hello! Currently, I have not seen someone confirm a Gigabit Ethernet CPU working in a Digital Audio. I have seen Gigabit Ethernet G4 CPU's around on eBay and some are even dual CPUs. This one I'm looking at here being at dual 800Mhz. eBay Link This reportedly being compatible with the...
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    Resolved RESOLVED - Updated title: Leopard Kernel Panic w/7800 GS? - Original title: Which ROM? - The GeForce 7800 GS Flashing Adventure

    Hello! I am back at it again with the PowerMac G4 DA (Digital Audio), I got a compatible GPU upgrade coming in the mail soon. That GPU being the BFG Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS 256MB AGP GPU (BFGR78256GSOC). I looked around The Mac Elite Wiki and found that this very card is compatible and I saw...
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    MDD Motherboard In DA?

    I see a lot of benefits from having an MDD, but getting an MDD locally and online both are extremely difficult. I got lucky that I found a PowerMac of any kind locally here because it's extremely rare and in most cases they're overpriced if you find ANY. Motherboards don't appear so difficult...
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    ATI GPUs - PowerMac G4 to run modern Debian and Leopard

    Hello! I have this PowerMac G4 and I wrote about it not long ago, but now a new chapter is being made for it an that's for upgrades, but now I'm in a situation figuring out which FireGL x3 card will work in it or what to do if a FireGL x3 isn't an option. I divided this into several sections...
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    Flashing Two GPUs - Two Dead Bricks | The PowerMac G4 Misadventures - What Now?

    Hi, I have this PowerMac G4, it's a 466MHZ (Mac OS reports 467MHZ) G4. The machine has an ATi Rage Pro 128 with 16MB of RAM, pretty low end even for late 90's and early 2000's standards. I have two graphics cards for AGP. I read up online about if they are supported or not. The process...
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    PowerMac G4 AGP Case Concept and more (nice blog/article)

    Hello, I just found this blog. http://thehouseofmoth.com/1999-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics/ Edit: suddenly only a few hours later the page isn't online anymore... so here is the version in google's cache, unfortunately without proper formatting...