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Hi, anyone having a quick shot on the reason of those patterns on startup? Firstly there's this ons ... and ofter a few seconds it switches to (RAM has already be switched to known-good ... board is recapped (IIRC :)) and washed)

Hi, I recently acquired an iMac G4 20" which was DOA. Cleaned it, replaced the battery and re-capped all the "small" caps on the PSU, now it is booting and chiming - however the display stays dead. Unfortunetely the mini.VGA socket is ühysically wrecked, too, so I cannot check video there...

Folks, it always has been annoying me that the information about which actual processor is contained in a some PPC machines seems to be inconsistent between different sources. With the help of some friends here we identified the method to read the Processor Version Register from the command...

Folks, it always has been annoying me that the information about which actual processor is contained in a PPC machine seems to be inconsistent between different sources. With the help of some friends here we identified the method to read the Processor Version Register from the command line -...

Hi folks, is there a way to actually read the complete CPU type from the OS (and prevent disassembling machines to the CPU level ...)? hw.cputype and cpusubtype only get down to eg. PowerPC - 7400, what about "reading" e.g. 7447a? (In case you ask "why"? There are conflicting entries on...

Hi folks, Question, did anyone ever hear/see the phenomenon in the attached video? And has some ideas? Board did get recapped, washed ... "good known" RAM got used. Traces look all fine. But on startup only a chopped of chime of less than 1/2 (see attached link) ... every 50 tries or so a...