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That is going to depend on how much VRAM you have in there. Lower resolution will give you more colors. It looks like 1024x768 is the max on that display according to EveryMac.

Day 11: G5 LCS woes I woke up in the middle of the night and went down a rabbit hole. I looked into cleaning solvents for radiators which lead me thinking about how to run it through. Well, pump of course. Which lead me to test the pump. Nothing. Which lead me down deeper. Disassembly of...

Looks like dust to me. Usually bad caps leave a residue on the green board, not the sides of the cans too much. Try some IsoPropyl Alcohol (IPA 91% or better) and a light toothbrush.

Day 10 part 2 - more G5 I decided to tackle the LCS from the Quad G5. Warning: I am not a user (I am a Tinkerer). I removed the hose clamps. Since there was crust showing at some of the rubber to aluminum joints and I could not get the rubber to come off, I cut it off. Yuck! After...

That is just case rust, no damage on the motherboard? Almost looks like a battery bomb. I love the Jenga pile from floor to ceiling. Good thing that case didn't rust more... You may want to put that side panel back on for vertical support of that stack!

Day 10 so far... I dug around and found some spare parts for G5 towers (screws, drive sled, fans from the drive bay, etc). I Reinstalled the dual 2.3GHz processors in the Unit E (that was previously working fine, then crashed). MLB and CPUs passed. So trying to run the Thermal Calibration...

The back can't always be trusted, as when Tinkerers do upgrades, they don't update the labels. I bought a G4 Cube and it unknowingly already has a 1.2GHz upgrade in it. And you can overclock these G4s with some soldering skills.

The pins in your photos do not move. The 4 screws hold the motherboard is a position that engages the pins. So in the 3rd picture, the motherboard should slide away from the back IO plate towards the Airport card, just about 1/8 of an inch. Then the motherboard will lift up off the frame. I...

Under Siege (Steven Segal)?

Sony Mavica was my first real digital camera that was not a webcam. I had Canon film DSLRs and lots of lenses so when I migrated to digital, I kept with Canon because of the lenses. I collected quite a few before 2017 when I started chasing some Solar Eclipses (always went near the center in...

Day 7: Thanks for the memories! I stopped at Free Geek Minneapolis to have a gander. I picked up 4x1G PC3200U for my G5 units A & C, bringing them up to 4GB and 7GB. I also grabbed 4x2GB PC2-6400 for my G5 Quad, bringing that up to 11GB. I saw a $5 Sony Mavica CD1000 camera, one I have been...

Welcome to to Tinker Different!

Day 6: (we've only just begun) I ran the Thermal Calibration on the dual 1.8 Unit A last night and it failed. Swapped out a processor from the "flaky" B unit and ran the tcal again this morning with success! Also installed Panther 10.3 Both CPUs are recognized. Benchmarked with GB 2.20...

Yes, I experimented with that with my Mini eMac and I will incorporate that to the files soon...

Day 5: More G5 stuff. I decided to pull both CPUs from the B unit "flaky" and put them into the A unit. Booted and recognized dual processors! But... the exit fan was missing a blade and after a CPU swap it was in turbo fan mode. Luckily I have a couple spares I ordered since last year (see...

And here is my thread on the Card Retainer Baffle.

Day 4: Spent some time on the lot of G5s. The new-to-me dual 1.8 (lets label them alphabetically from the top down, A through E) seems to have been stripped for parts. Since B was listed from last year as "flaky", I pulled parts to complete A, and was able to install MacOS 10.4 and 10.5. I...

Day3: I confirmed that I have FIVE PowerMac G5s of various configs. The three from 2025 were converted to air cooled. The Quad machine has no processors in it. The top two have no video card. One is missing the clear panel inside. The top new one has two processors that are air cooled...

Still refining the iPad 2 and 3 adapters, but instructions and STL files have been added to the first post.

Day 1: I was working on my iPad panel for an Apple //c. Day 2: I have collected 5x G5 towers in different configs (3 from previous year's Challenge and 2 for this year). Hopefully this weekend I can sort out at least 2 or 3 good working ones.