Re: Overclocked MDD

2012-03-08 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:00 -0800 3/7/12, Wayne Stewart wrote: According to iStat pro I'm running 2 degrees Celsius hotter at idle with both processors running. Using CHUD tools to turn on nap dropps my idle temp about 20 degrees C. At 1.5ghz there wasn't any problems. 1.58 is new to me so I'll be keeping an eye on

Re: Overclocked MDD

2012-03-08 Thread Richard Gerome
I have used those blue ice packs to cool my computers many of times as a temp fix, till you can figure out a better method. I would hang it close to the fan so it blows the cool air in it, I also have used them to sit my Tibook on when the fan went bad till I fixed that too!!!

Re: HD problem on my PowerMac G3

2012-03-08 Thread Eleni
Thank you all for your input. I decided to format the drive and start fresh, as the PowerMac G3 came with the HD drive and Mac OS 8.6 installed from previous owner. I tried to boot up with original Mac OS 8.6 disk in DVD drive holding the 'C' key, and it would go straight to the HD. My guess

AGP Video Card Selection

2012-03-08 Thread Bill Connelly
Would someone suggest a good agp video card, available today, that I can use in my Quicksilver Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8? I want to purchase a Samsung 22 HDTV for use as a monitor, and it requires HDMI input. Perhaps a video card with a DVI connector, as I have an extra DVI to HDMI adapter.

MDD motherboards

2012-03-08 Thread David W. Morris
Since all the smart people hang out on this list, having kept their G3 to G5 Mac computers, I thought this would be the best place to ask for help with this question I own a dual 1.25GHz G4 PowerMac MDD (FW400, not FW800), that I have upgraded to a stock Apple dual 1.42GHz G4 CPU module. My

Re: HD problem on my PowerMac G3

2012-03-08 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 6-03-2012 5:48, Eleni ha scritto: I tried to boot up with original Mac OS 8.6 disk in DVD drive holding the 'C' key, and it would go straight to the HD. My guess is that the original disk is not a boot up disk AFAIK, any Apple's MacOS disk is a bootable disk (OTOH, I noticed a

Re: HD problem on my PowerMac G3

2012-03-08 Thread W.Adrian D'Alessio
Are the USB drivers installed. ? ( If a USB keyboard it being used ) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 6-03-2012 5:48, Eleni ha scritto: I tried to boot up with original Mac OS 8.6 disk in DVD drive holding the 'C' key, and it

Re: MDD motherboards

2012-03-08 Thread Wayne Stewart
You can easily swap CPU modules between MDDs with the same bus speed. You can also do it between MDDs with different bus speeds but you need to do some resistor mods to get the best results or in some cases to work at all Taking out a dual 1.25 and replacing it with a single 1.25 is just plug