Re: Anyone else with an eMac 800mhz? Need advice on a current upgrading...

2011-01-18 Thread Christopher Satterfield
In order to upgrade the USB from 1.1 to 2.0 you would need to completely disassemble the system, desolder the USB controller chip from the motherboard, solder a new one on and if it even turns on after that it still probably won't work because Mac OS doesn't have the drivers. I hate to tell this

Re: Anyone else with an eMac 800mhz? Need advice on a current upgrading...

2011-01-18 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/01/16 17:46, Christopher Satterfield so eloquently wrote: In order to upgrade the USB from 1.1 to 2.0 you would need to completely disassemble the system, desolder the USB controller chip from the motherboard, solder a new one on and if it even turns on after that it still probably won't

Anyone else with an eMac 800mhz? Need advice on a current upgrading...

2011-01-07 Thread emac2011
I have an eMac 512MB 800mhz I think it's also known as G4 power PC. I'm looking to make some upgrades. I have just installed and got it up and running with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) I heard it is the latest version I can Install on this emac. I would like to do some upgrades... 1- Is the RAM, since

Re: Anyone else with an eMac 800mhz? Need advice on a current upgrading...

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hi Yes, officially 10.4 tiger is your limit, but it is possible to run 10.5 on the 800mhz. I don't have one, so I can only guess that you will find it to be sluggish. The additional 512mb of ram will certainly help or indeed make it possible, if you decide to run leopard. Regarding usb. Usb is