iMac G4 15" 700Mhz possible upgrades

[phifer8390]

I just got the mac mentioned in the thread title. I am interested in upgrading many of its features. If anyone has any advice or know where to find parts, or good reading material. I know my easily accessible ram is 512 and would like to upgrade the upper. While I am in there I would also like to upgrade the cd-r to a dvd-r, the hd from 40gb to the largest it will recognize. If the cpu can be upgraded I would also like to give that a shot. Thanx

 

[Reflow]

The G4 iMac has all of its components on one logic board, as such it is not possible to upgrade your CPU without a logic board replacement. As for the other parts you can read Here also the take apart instructions are here

 

[phifer8390]

The G4 iMac has all of its components on one logic board, as such it is not possible to upgrade your CPU without a logic board replacement. As for the other parts you can read Here also the take apart instructions are here

I have seen that site and found some ram. I am also ordering thermal paste, a dvd burner, and a hard drive. just need t know how large the hard drive can be. Here is my bus information.

 

[Reflow]

It looks like a 120GB is the max you can install from that site I gave you.

 

[g4cubed]

If you want a larger HDD you need to get SpeedTools ATA Hi-Capacity Driver which will extended capacity of ATA drives (drives greater than 128 Gigabytes in size) on older G4 and G3 Macintoshes. You can get it at OWC.

 

[applefan1997]

You have the first revision of the G4 (The original 700/800 model), so the largest size of hard drive it will accept is 120GB. The upper RAM is a desktop-type stick. It'll take up to 512MB for a max of 1G with the bottom RAM. As for DVD burners, you can install a variety of drives. However, most (especially generic name-brands) drivers will probably not be supported. Others (e.g.. LG, Pioneer...) can be supported through the use of Patchburn (free software) if they don't have included OS X support. The CPU is not upgradeable, unless you get a 1GHz board from a 15" model.

 

[phifer8390]

So I sold my 700Mhz G4 on Ebay the day after I bought a G4 1.25Ghz 20" model. Now I am going to upgrade that instead. I am just witing for its arrival!