I must try and show restraint...Be careful, it can get out of hand fast!
I hope the 12" is in good condition?
Condition is average or better, and it's a runner. No charger, but I have the smaller 45W (?) version already, so hopefully all set!
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Condition is average or better, and it's a runner. No charger, but I have the smaller 45W (?) version already, so hopefully all set!
I have 4 chargers with round plug.
- 3 of them are 24v 1.875A ie. 45W
- 2 of the 45W chargers have white round plug, one has a silver one (?)
- one is 24.5V 2.65A ie. 65W. This is labeled as for the PB G4 Titanium.
I also have 2x PB G4 12" and a iBook G4 14". One 12" and the iBook was purchased new so I have their original chargers. The second 12" might have come with non original charger, maybe the one with silver plug as it has a year marking of 2001 which does not match any of my PowerBooks?
So, logically it is likely that 2 of those 45W chargers are for the PB 12" G4. So, you should be ok on that front.
EDIT: confirmed, this is what is written behind the 12":
BUT! it seems like most places are selling 65W chargers for the 15" and 17" PB G4's. If I was you I would get one to make sure the machine gets enough juice as you do not have a battery in it. This is something that might cause some of your issues?? EDIT: what does it say behind the PB 17"?
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What did I do with a PPC today? While working at home I also recharged and booted my PB G4 12" 1.5GHz. And then I tested the Apple iSight FW -camera with it and it indeed works! 😂 I wonder if my modern Rode USB mic would work with it? And it does! 👍
Now I wonder if there is any video conferencing sw that would still work with PPCs?
Nice thing about the 12" is that it still is capable in logging into my modern wifi. 👍
Now I wonder if there is any video conferencing sw that would still work with PPCs?
Nice thing about the 12" is that it still is capable in logging into my modern wifi. 👍
In principle Tox clients support video, though I did not verify this functionality myself.
Upstreams:
GitHub - Green-Sky/tomato: tomato, a plant from the solanaceae family - tox built-in
tomato, a plant from the solanaceae family - tox built-in - Green-Sky/tomato
github.com
GitHub - JFreegman/toxic: A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client.
A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client. - JFreegman/toxic
github.com
Ports:
powerpc-ports/net/tomato-tox/Portfile at main · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports
Overlay repo with fixes to use with MacPorts on macOS PowerPC - macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports
github.com
powerpc-ports/net/toxic/Portfile at main · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports
Overlay repo with fixes to use with MacPorts on macOS PowerPC - macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports
github.com
I'm trying to recover my partition to work(....ongoing activity last few days),yesterday mounted a new ssd with new(clean) install(leo) to see if I can do anything (without success),and now using TTPro5 to try and"rebuild" volume... seems to want to do something ... with it unmounted... anyway little 🙌 success in my PPC endeavors....
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The 17 needs and has the correct Apple charger, but no battery. The incoming 12" has a battery, and I'm pretty sure the 45W Apple charger I have will do the job.I have 4 chargers with round plug.
- 3 of them are 24v 1.875A ie. 45W
- 2 of the 45W chargers have white round plug, one has a silver one (?)
- one is 24.5V 2.65A ie. 65W. This is labeled as for the PB G4 Titanium.
I also have 2x PB G4 12" and a iBook G4 14". One 12" and the iBook was purchased new so I have their original chargers. The second 12" might have come with non original charger, maybe the one with silver plug as it has a year marking of 2001 which does not match any of my PowerBooks?
So, logically it is likely that 2 of those 45W chargers are for the PB 12" G4. So, you should be ok on that front.
EDIT: confirmed, this is what is written behind the 12":
BUT! it seems like most places are selling 65W chargers for the 15" and 17" PB G4's. If I was you I would get one to make sure the machine gets enough juice as you do not have a battery in it. This is something that might cause some of your issues?? EDIT: what does it say behind the PB 17"?
Also have an mSATA drive incoming, adapter all ready and waiting.
Ah, ok - I thought you only had a 45W charger. Yes, the 45W will work with the 12".
I'm up late because I got my new iPod today from playermods, and syncing my almost 8,000 songs from my Power Mac G5 collection is taking an awfully long time. Of course, it would have been nice if UPS delivered my iPod by 3 PM like the tracking information promised instead of the driver coming after 9 PM.
As an European who doesn't know where you are posting from it looks you are up early, time of your post is 7.55 AM. Unless you really started at 9PM and are still doing it 7.55AM? Then you would still be up.
But, I recently synced my 8000+ songs via USB to my iPod after installing a new drive and that didn't take very long. I even did it twice during same evening after noticing a mistake I made. Dunno if computer speed effects syncing time though? I was using an old Intel Mac.
As an European who doesn't know where you are posting from it looks you are up early, time of your post is 7.55 AM. Unless you really started at 9PM and are still doing it 7.55AM? Then you would still be up.
But, I recently synced my 8000+ songs via USB to my iPod after installing a new drive and that didn't take very long. I even did it twice during same evening after noticing a mistake I made. Dunno if computer speed effects syncing time though? I was using an old Intel Mac.
Songs format matters. Lossless files may be to 100+ MB each, while garbage mp3 can be tiny.
Yes, sure, didn't think of that. Mine are mostly 192-320kbps MP3's, only the ones I've bought in digital form are lossless.
Today I've been investigating G4 overclocking and have found lots of interesting discussions and websites on how to do it to G4 Mini, Quicksilver and MDDs. I will probably start by overclocking either my new QS or the 2003 re-release MDD. Both are single processor and should be relatively simple to overclock.
I even have 2 cpu cards for the QS so if I screw up it's not fatal. It originally has the 733MHz cpu which doesn't have L3 cache at all, the second card is the 867MHz one which has 2MB of L3 cache. So, I think the 867 one will be my test candidate for moderate overclocking. I am not aiming for records but even 1 step up would be nice, 2 steps great.
But, I also need to address the fact that the QS might not have a healthy PSU, recapping might be ahead too. Maybe even a first step.
I believe the Radeon 9000 Pro from my MDD FW800 will work in the Quicksilver too? Seems like a worthy upgrade from the Geforce2 MX, right?
The 2003 reissue MDD should on the other hand be totally ok and if it is then overclocking it from 1.25GHz to even 1.42 should be quite doable. Maybe even without touching voltages.
I even have 2 cpu cards for the QS so if I screw up it's not fatal. It originally has the 733MHz cpu which doesn't have L3 cache at all, the second card is the 867MHz one which has 2MB of L3 cache. So, I think the 867 one will be my test candidate for moderate overclocking. I am not aiming for records but even 1 step up would be nice, 2 steps great.
But, I also need to address the fact that the QS might not have a healthy PSU, recapping might be ahead too. Maybe even a first step.
I believe the Radeon 9000 Pro from my MDD FW800 will work in the Quicksilver too? Seems like a worthy upgrade from the Geforce2 MX, right?
The 2003 reissue MDD should on the other hand be totally ok and if it is then overclocking it from 1.25GHz to even 1.42 should be quite doable. Maybe even without touching voltages.
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I have over 30.000 songs on the 4tb drive I'm gambling my repair on...
BTW I recently got a 85w charger... I was thinking the MacBook not powering up because of the charger, but even with more power the C2D just won't start anymore...R.I.P....
Got gcc 14.3.0 onto 10.5.8, with Modula2 enabled now.
P. S. If anyone wonders, it takes 12 hours to build on 2.3 DC. Which is not too bad: in 24 hrs you get the whole gcc upgraded (libgcc + gcc, so two builds).
Should be about a half of that on the Quad.
Update. About 5 hrs 20 min on the Quad.
P. S. If anyone wonders, it takes 12 hours to build on 2.3 DC. Which is not too bad: in 24 hrs you get the whole gcc upgraded (libgcc + gcc, so two builds).
Should be about a half of that on the Quad.
Update. About 5 hrs 20 min on the Quad.
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Dusted off my iMac G3 today. When I went to max out the RAM awhile back, I had to remove the heat sink, so I could access the required RAM slot. After doing that, I could tell that the heat sink didn't adhere to the CPU like it used to, so I decided to stop using the iMac until I could either replace the thermal pad or apply thermal paste instead. Well today was finally the day. I opted to apply thermal paste with the thermal pad still in place. The heat sink adheres like it should now and the iMac still works. I plan on doing an SSD upgrade on this Mac next and then installing 10.3.9 and PPCMC and see how they perform.
My new 2003 MDD 1.25GHz arrived and I have now test run it for few hours and everything seems fine this far. It came with 768MB RAM and 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm, not much else. Very clean machine in and out. Installed a SSD, partitioned it and currently cloning Sorbet onto one partition. Will try installing OS 9.2.2 to the other one, hope it can detect my SSD.
This is the first time I will install OS 9 to anything for many years. I am one of those who swapped to OS X very quickly and almost completely at early stage. I haven't looked back but now I am feeling nostalgic so I will give it a try. I never did run OS 9 in such a powerful machine back in the day. I think my PowerTower Pro with PowerLogix PowerForce G4 450MHz upgrade was the most powerful machine I had at the time? I had a graphite G4 after that but cannot remember if I run OS9 on it at all?
EDIT: installing OS9 was much easier than expected. Pulled an universal installer with some updated and added apps from Macos9lives, burned it to a CD. Booted from CD and ran Restore -app. It detected the SSD (Samsung EVO 850) and correct partition and rest was automatic. Now to install some software to run. 👍
This is the first time I will install OS 9 to anything for many years. I am one of those who swapped to OS X very quickly and almost completely at early stage. I haven't looked back but now I am feeling nostalgic so I will give it a try. I never did run OS 9 in such a powerful machine back in the day. I think my PowerTower Pro with PowerLogix PowerForce G4 450MHz upgrade was the most powerful machine I had at the time? I had a graphite G4 after that but cannot remember if I run OS9 on it at all?
EDIT: installing OS9 was much easier than expected. Pulled an universal installer with some updated and added apps from Macos9lives, burned it to a CD. Booted from CD and ran Restore -app. It detected the SSD (Samsung EVO 850) and correct partition and rest was automatic. Now to install some software to run. 👍
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What have I done? Been told that my next one has been delivered and is sitting on my doorstep, and I'm not home until 3am Saturday...
Fortunately, we have good neighbours and the area is inaccessible to the general public, so should be fine.
Fortunately, we have good neighbours and the area is inaccessible to the general public, so should be fine.
Hah, was looking for some installation disks I know I have somewhere and in one of the CD/DVD packs I found my old backups from 1998 and 1999. OS 8-9, software, documents and all!
Bunch of nice little utilities I didn't even remember using. And most of them run straight away with only copying them over from the CDs. 👍
But, some don't, for example Bryce 3D asks for the installation CD to verify my registration and Strata Studio Pro freezes during start. I have the original disks and boxes for both somewhere in storage. Don't know if they work with OS 9.22 though - need to investigate. Meanwhile maybe I'll just browse the garden and see if I can get them to work. It would be nice to open the old files and see what I made with them 25+ years ago.
Bunch of nice little utilities I didn't even remember using. And most of them run straight away with only copying them over from the CDs. 👍
But, some don't, for example Bryce 3D asks for the installation CD to verify my registration and Strata Studio Pro freezes during start. I have the original disks and boxes for both somewhere in storage. Don't know if they work with OS 9.22 though - need to investigate. Meanwhile maybe I'll just browse the garden and see if I can get them to work. It would be nice to open the old files and see what I made with them 25+ years ago.
I just learned that the MDD also accepts DDR2 memory (PC3200 400MHz) and they work along with the specced DDR (PC2700 333MHz). All are of course run at 333MHz. So, I put some 512MB sticks I had marked for iMac G5 into it and now I have 1.75GB reported in both OS9 (which can only use 1.5GB) and Leopard.
Installed loads of OS9 software, everything is running well at the moment and to save that status I installed Retrospect Express (I used to run Retro with DAT/DLT -drives back in the day) and formatted another 2.5" spinner, put it into FW case and started a backup of the whole disk. 👍
Installed loads of OS9 software, everything is running well at the moment and to save that status I installed Retrospect Express (I used to run Retro with DAT/DLT -drives back in the day) and formatted another 2.5" spinner, put it into FW case and started a backup of the whole disk. 👍
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PC3200 400MHz ≠ DDR2. That’s DDR, just with a different frequency specification.
Thanks, didn't know there was DDR and DDR2 with the same 400MHz spec.
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The PCxxxx name was only ever used for DDR? ( according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM#Modules )
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM#Generations , each generation of DDR overlaps some (by Bandwidth) with the previous and next generation.
e.g. DDR-400 (400 MHz clock) is similar (bandwidth = 3200 MB/s) to DDR2-400 (100 MHz clock)