Re: Replacing the logic board in a G3?

2010-03-18 Thread Jeremiah Stevens
If it doesn't have firewire you must mean the tray loader. The boards are shaped differently between the two, so I would just reccomend finding a cheap g3 firewire capable model with a dead board and hook it up in that. I upgraded my Indigo iMac G3 (500mhz) with a 600mhz board out of a graphite

Re: Replacing the logic board in a G3?

2010-03-18 Thread ./aal
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it'll work nicely. We did this with my little brother's 350Mhz Blueberry, because we didn't update the firmware before installing OSX. It also allows for a DVD drive upgrade, since it has the DVD encoders that

AppleHardware Test error codes

2010-03-18 Thread Steinar Beider
Anyone who knows the meaning of the error codes reported? I have a failing iMac G5 (iSight) and the test reported 2FAN/4/8: HDD Fan Does this mean the hard drive fan is out of order? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs

Re: Intel iMacs - Best deals?

2010-03-18 Thread David Colvin
Elliott: Try LEM swaplist. I know that they don't allow discussion but you could place a 'Want To Buy' ad. Surely those guys would have some off-list suggestions. If you've done that already, my apologies. David On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Intel iMacs - Best deals?

2010-03-18 Thread kurt piepenburg
On Mar 17, 2010, at 10:23 AM, dw4 wrote: Somewhere recently I saw someone divide the price by the Geekbench score to get a number to use to compare various models. Once you've determined the minimum configuration you need, that might help narrow down your purchase choices. Among other

Re: Intel iMacs - Best deals?

2010-03-18 Thread Elliott Price
Well, I'm planning on doing that eventually, but we probably won't start looking to actually buy for a month or two; just wanted to get some different opinions, and suggestions. :) -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:35 AM,

Re: Replacing the logic board in a G3?

2010-03-18 Thread Elliott Price
Yes... That... Same difference. :) But it does have the capability to playback DVD's, which the 350, no-firewire ones lack. -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:00 AM, ./aal wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Elliott

Re: Replacing the logic board in a G3?

2010-03-18 Thread Christian Wacker
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: Yes... That... Same difference. :) But it does have the capability to playback DVD's, which the 350, no-firewire ones lack. Except mine played back DVD's just fine.        -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh

Re: Replacing the logic board in a G3?

2010-03-18 Thread Elliott Price
Oh, well perhaps I was mistaken. When we swapped boards on my brother's, we thought that the 350 one wouldn't play DVD's... But that was a long time ago, and we could've been mistaken. I know that between the Lombards, the low end ones don't have the decoder, and the nicer ones do. Maybe that's

Re: Intel iMacs - Best deals?

2010-03-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 18, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Elliott Price wrote: Well, I'm planning on doing that eventually, but we probably won't start looking to actually buy for a month or two; just wanted to get some different opinions, and suggestions. :) The best generalized rule for buying computers I've ever

Re: Replacing the logic board in a G3?

2010-03-18 Thread Clark Martin
On 3/18/10 7:13 AM, Christian Wacker wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Jeremiah Stevens jeremiah.stev...@prodigy.net wrote: If it doesn't have firewire you must mean the tray loader. The boards are shaped differently between the two, so I would just reccomend finding a cheap g3 firewire