Recent content by Arbystpossum

LORD GABRIEL! Love that game, even if the engine is weird.

I was looking inside of my G3 iMac, looking to see if there was a place to put a fan. Ideally it'd be up top where the monitor is, blowing air up and out of the case, but I'm afraid of magnetic stuff getting with the tube, because it's right there. The bottom isn't a great idea because there's...

The WHIZZER, it was right in my face the whole time! That's the name of this iMac now. Absolutely. More fun, and less vulgar than the alternative.

I actually don't know. I didn't put a meter to the pins, but I vaguely remember plugging in a fan into the pins on mine, and no combination I tried made the fan spin up. I could be mistaken though. I don't think Macs had dynamic fan control until way later.

I have a Commslot 2 Ethernet card in mine, so it's off to the side. The heat in my machine was a nightmare to manage, but I have it stable. Mine is in a 6360 case, so it's smaller and a bit of a nightmare,G3 CPU card, Voodoo 2 GPU, the box is absolutely stuffed but I managed. A godsend are those...

I have a 225Mhz one, and I took the heatsink off of a dead 6360 board and put a fan in the center of it, it works extremely well. Anything you put on there will be better than what was on there from the factory. Beware, PCI cards will decrease proper airflow.

Random note, something I've noticed. I have a USB keyboard and mouse combo, like a trackpad built into the palmist of a keyboard. MacOS9 doesn't recognize the trackpad but can seee the keyboard. This same machine in OSX 10.4 can see and use both. I think some kinda edutainment month thing is...

Right when the PowerPC challenge comes to a close, and my battle with this urine-soaked G4 concludes, someone drops an iMac G3 in my lap. Pristine condition, no pee, everything works. Encore.

Playing UT4K4 and Minecraft. Also GardenTunes. I installed a mod for UT that replaces the monsters with Doom 3 Demons, and I'm having a blast. I also think I would move the Minecraft server to a Raspberry Pi and connect to it, that way I can keep working on this kingdom on other machines. Also...

I removed the resistor for the fan, so it's spinning at whatever the G4 thinks is good enough. I don't think I've observed the G4 fan spinning any faster or slower at any heat level, it seems to just go at a set speed. I've seen the G4 fan control program before, and that works wonders with my...

Re-creaming the G4 iMac heatsink and heat pipes, as well as letting the fan run at a higher speeds helped quite a bit, but I think the heat management in the G4 iMax is just not great. The system no longer does thermal shutdowns, but the processor runs really hot. Hot enough to steal my...

Mine looks like the attached image. It has 2 points of contact. I re-creamed the contact points, but it doesn't feel like the heat is radiating through the inner chassis properly. The bottom front is hot as expected, but the whole front isn't as warm as I think it should be. I had felt a...

I think I put the G4 back together wrong, those heat pipes are misalligned with the metal chassis that it sinks its heat to. The system overheats and freezes, I can feel the internal heat pipe and it's extremely hot, and the rear of the chassis was not even remotely warm. A curious thing.

My cat-pee G4 kept Kernal Panicking, and I couldn't figure out why. I kept looking at the KP log, and it kept saying something like "I wrote something to RAM and looked and it's not there and crashed.". Something like that. It took me WAY too long to figure out that the DIMM and SODIMM sticks...

I've finally caved and I'm getting a replacement Noctua fan for my G4 iMac. It's quieter than the replacement I have, which the replacement IS indeed a 12v fan, it just spins at an insane RPM. The Noctua comes with in-line resistors, so I can fine tune it if I want, which is splendid. I also...