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What have you done with a PowerPC today?
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Yeah, I know there are a few who can. The display is displaying garbage, like snow like garbage.. but, when i REBOOT the system and I get the usual start up Apple it doesn't go crazy until it enters Leopard. Perhaps an issue with the graphics driver ?Perhaps there are members who can help guide you through the process?
A few questions come to mind. What happens when you boot with Tiger instead? Also, have you tried testing it with an external monitor? If so, do you experience the same graphical corruption issues?
Hi, no.. I didn't test with Tiger. Yes, I did test with external monitor and nothing corrupt happens, so it means possibly the screen is messed up which it is.
I didn't know is it single or dual. There is word "DELPHI" on it. Still in search for someone who can help with diags\repair.
Ok, both made by Delphi - now you see single pump or 2 blocks ? 2 blocks is the bad one, single is the better one.
Мудра порада, брате ! Не розбирай, а чекай на ремонту, або інакше будеш у тебе дорогий ремонт - I mean, your choice if you want do it yourself.
"What have you done with a PowerPC today?"
I unpacked it.
Just arrived from eBay, a 600MHz G3 iBook. It is absolutely excellent - and it is in working condition... so far! I think I am going to try and find an original OS 9 install disk for it and replace Tiger, but after lugging my 1400cs about a bit (and sadly beginning to see the hinges fracture), and trying to pretend that my Clamshell is portable when it fact it's a rather pretty pack of bricks... or even trying to use my TiBook despite the fear the hinges will come off every time I open or close it, a nice snowbook could become my luggable of choice.
Ok, that would probably be the TRS-80 Model 4P, but even I am not that draft!
I unpacked it.
Just arrived from eBay, a 600MHz G3 iBook. It is absolutely excellent - and it is in working condition... so far! I think I am going to try and find an original OS 9 install disk for it and replace Tiger, but after lugging my 1400cs about a bit (and sadly beginning to see the hinges fracture), and trying to pretend that my Clamshell is portable when it fact it's a rather pretty pack of bricks... or even trying to use my TiBook despite the fear the hinges will come off every time I open or close it, a nice snowbook could become my luggable of choice.
Ok, that would probably be the TRS-80 Model 4P, but even I am not that draft!
Nice, my first Apple Mac was a 2001 iBook G3 (polycarbonate white, not the colorful clamshell).
I no longer have it, now I wish I had kept it when I replaced it with an Intel 2008 MacBook Pro 15".
Well, this resolution never personally appealed to me, but I've used two 17" Studio Displays for the last seven years and that's the max resolution they can display.I've never understood the appeal of this particular resolution due to its unique 5:4 aspect ratio, which looks weird on most CRTs as those are 4:3. It was standard for e.g. SGI or Sun workstations in the early 1990s driving huge 20" fixed-frequency CRTs, so maybe those had the correct aspect ratio (idk). And of course there are many 5:4 LCDs with that resolution, greatly increasing its popularity in the early-to-mid 2000s before widescreens took over. But for most CRTs out there, 1280x960 (4:3) is the real deal.
And don't get me started on the "standards of today". Because 16:9 is complete garbage for anything but watching movies.
Rant over.
I used to be afraid of liquid cooling myself. But I've had a Quad G5 since February 2017 and a Dual Processor 2.5 since shortly after that. Neither Mac has failed and my Quad served as my daily driver for at least three years.
In May 2020 I switched to a Mac Pro. Here is one of the last pics of both my Quad (on top) and my 2.3DC G5 (on bottom).
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So, my job informed me on Monday that everyone except the bindery personnel were being furloughed on Thursday. Been working at home with the company MBP, keyboard/mouse and twin displays. Now that I am furloughed this stuff will remain here until I'm recalled. Since I am presently not using the...
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If you've seen any of my recent Intel Mac pics you'll realize that my penchant for six displays did not start with my Mac Pro. It in fact started with a Quicksilver G4.
I was having a not so good problem with my Dual 1.8GHz G5 this week. While using it to compile InterWebPPC, it shut off. It would shut off only when booting Mac OS X for some reason. Within 3-6 seconds of the gray apple loading screen it would click itself off.
I was however able to boot into AHT and successfully complete AHT without losing power. But as soon as I tried rebooting into any version of OS X from any source, it would shut off.
I just spent the past few hours tearing it all the way down to inspect and clean the PSU. The PSU was definitely in need for a cleaning. I got it all put back together, and it seems to be working normally again. Weird.. I guess booting OS X at all puts more of a load than a full Apple Hardware Test does?
Anyways, I'm now going to conduct some sort of stress tests on it and see if I can't get it to shut itself off again.
I was however able to boot into AHT and successfully complete AHT without losing power. But as soon as I tried rebooting into any version of OS X from any source, it would shut off.
I just spent the past few hours tearing it all the way down to inspect and clean the PSU. The PSU was definitely in need for a cleaning. I got it all put back together, and it seems to be working normally again. Weird.. I guess booting OS X at all puts more of a load than a full Apple Hardware Test does?
Anyways, I'm now going to conduct some sort of stress tests on it and see if I can't get it to shut itself off again.
Bought Yikes! 400 MHz "as is", mainly for CPU and Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI, will fit my Beige perfectly. For equivalent of $33 I couldn't resist
I’ve added to my collection finally a clamshell indigo G3. Prices on eBay are insane but got this one untested for £30. Didn’t think I had to deal with a different power connector but an audio jack sorted the issue. It’s nuts to think how much has changed if I put it next to my m1 air.
I struggle to keep my PowerPC stuff stock so I’m looking for a little oc and slap a small ssd.
I struggle to keep my PowerPC stuff stock so I’m looking for a little oc and slap a small ssd.
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They offered a 400MHz version slightly later according to MacTracker (everymac).Heheh. Kind of takes one to know one
But wasn't Yikes a 350 MHz thing though? And Sawtooth was 400MHz at start?
Oh boy am I old or what.. Sure there were a thing or too I can't remember..
Just pipped me to the post with a similar answer.
According to LEM, it was the slower 350Mhz version that Apple released slightly later.
Just pipped me to the post with a similar answer.
According to LEM, it was the slower 350Mhz version that Apple released slightly later.
Fun story:
I had placed an order for a 400MHz PCI Yikes! tower (my first-ever Mac) three days before the 12 October 1999 (or was it the 13th…) announced downspeed controversy. As Apple had not filled and shipped the order prior to the downspeed penalty, they shipped a 350MHz unit (whose logic board needed replacing only three weeks after it arrived, yay failed audio I/O). That chapter was how I was initiated into the, uh, Cult of Mac. 🙃
Something I just realized, PPCMC 7 supports the oldest OS out of every YouTube-dl GUI on the r/youTube-dl wiki page, and probably the oldest OS out of any GUI period. You could literally not update a Mac since April 15th 2005 (10.3.9 release date) and could just download PPCMC 7 and still watch YouTube and Twitch with it to this day. YouTube itself was founded February 14th 2005. Who remembers YouTube pre-ADs? I do and that’s part of the PPCMC 7 experience. Your Mac is just as capable now as it was 16 years ago.
I remember the first time I watched YouTube every. I asked who was showing me if their were ADs. They said no, I asked how that was possible. Never got an answer at the time as they didn’t know.
I remember the first time I watched YouTube every. I asked who was showing me if their were ADs. They said no, I asked how that was possible. Never got an answer at the time as they didn’t know.
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I have at least 2 music videos downloaded at 480p H.264 for playback on my PowerPC Macs that have since been DELETED by the artists. Archive things you care about! Pretty sure no one else has any backups of these videos as I can’t find them anymore, these downloads are my only copies rn.