Recent content by ifrit05

As per this archived Apple KB article, the iBook G3 does not have a PRAM battery. It uses a PRAM capacitor that stores enough juice to swap out the main battery without losing the contents of the PRAM. Is your iBook G3 main battery dead?

Heard good things about this digital microscope in the past.

Was just doing a deep clean of my Beige G3 and that got me to thinking: Since the PERCH slot is just a subset of PCI, what is the feasibility of someone creating a custom PERCH card? Something like a sound, USB, IDE/IDE2SATA/IDE2mSATA or M.2, 10/100 combo adapter (well, obviously not ALL of...

Update: just got around to setting up a netboot server on one of my other macs. I booted into a 10.4 install and ran system profiler. I am in utter disbelief. cycle count 3. THREE.

Got an open box/lightly used iBook G3 900MHz over the weekend. Description stated was bought new but was hardly used. Battery was listed as not working but after leaving it plugged in for 3 days it finally started charging (~5 hours of life/almost a brand new battery!) All discs included, even...

I'm so jelly.

Seems to only be able to do NetBoots not Installs (unless I'm missing something)

Requires 10.7. Let me look into it though.

I have an Xserve3,1 that has 10.6 Server installed but System Image Utility will only work with 10.6+ images for NetInstalls. I don't think I need all of that anyways just for a NetInstall server so would a Macmini2,1 suffice running 10.4 server? I would like to get 10.4/10.5/10.6 ppc/x86...

Pretty sure the MediaTek MT1616E has something to do with the laser pickup. Proprietary though so no datasheet was ever available.

If the CPU speed reporting is bothering you (and you for-sure know nothing else is wrong with your hardware) you can create a script for OpenFirmware to spoof CPU speed that runs automatically on every boot. Create a txt file on the root of your boot partition. Name does not matter, for this...

Don't know if this is a good spot for this (also posted in the Discord) but I'm having an issue with my Desktop BlueSCSI v2-2023.10a with a Pico W. It cannot find an SDCard. Tried a Sandisk and Samsung, FAT/ExFAT, both old but verified genuine and working, overwrite format with SD Card...