quicksilver

so here is the rundown, when i got my dp 1 ghz QS, it booted and ran fine. then i unplugged it and let it sit for months on end because i got my mdd up and running. now that i want to see if the QS fires up again, i get nothing. i tore apart the psu to see a scorch mark on the housing wall so i...

Would love some help with this since I am probably missing something simple. I'm having trouble with two AGP PowerMac G4 Towers, one Sawtooth and one Quicksilver. Both had been upgraded with Sonnet CPUs and work fine with those. I ordered replacement CPUs that match the machines original specs...

Hi there, i manage to resurrect a g4 quicksilver 867mhz with 2 80gb hds running Tiger. Now, i have some sata initio 1622 card installed and 250gb hd conected to it with leopard 10.5.8 from a(nother one) dead G5. On Tiger, all discs get properly mounted on desktop and running but i cannot manage...

Hello everyone! I own a 2001 Quicksilver G4 tower and a 1st gen iPod, having recently installed OS X Puma on the Mac since I wanted to make an “era-appropriate” 1st gen iPod syncing setup. My iPod is on the latest software for the 1st gen, version 1.5. Unfortunately, even the last version of...

Hey everybody. I had a question regarding upgrading a 867MHz PowerMac G4 Quicksilver. Since third party CPU upgrades from the likes of Sonnet are either impossible to find or pretty expensive, I was wondering if it is possible to take the CPU’s from a dual processor MDD model or even from a...

I am a hardcore and devoted Quicksilver user, and have been using it - for everything - since I discovered it in 2004. These days with every new machine, and every new operating system, I wonder what I'll do when QS can't keep up, or the volunteer developers have better things to do. So I...

Greetings everyone! I recently acquired a Quicksilver Power Mac G4, running 10.4.11. It's my first tower Mac and I need some help, so I decided to register here. Question no. 1: The board on this Mac is from a 733Mhz 2001 Quicksilver, but it has the 1Ghz DP chip from 2002 installed (detects L3...

I've got a couple of dual processor Power Mac G4 Quicksilvers with failed or failing CPU fans. I'm doing lots of searching, but there isn't much around that I can find, and what I have found is usually used. If I'm going to replace it and spend at least $15 on a machine that's worth < $100, I'd...