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The Novus 3-step polish is generally great for this. I've used it on numerous pieces from my collection with excellent results, including Power Mac G4s, iBook clamshells, my Cube, and this CRT. It's pretty easy to use; you just work your way through each of the three bottles until you achieve...

Very nice work. Thanks for the guide, going to keep this in mind for the future!

Success at last! Fourth time's the charm... Picked up one of the IDE-to-SATA adapter boards with the red PCB (StarTech brand), and that finally did the trick. Was able to get OS 8.5 restored from CD and then upgrade to 9.1 from there. It has been reliably booting from the SSD every time (and...

Thanks for testing all of this out, that is interesting. Coincidentally I ordered one of the red boards the other day so I'll try that out in the B&W and hopefully it'll work out. What models of iBook G3 and PowerBook G4 will you be installing those 2.5" IDE to mSATA adapters in? I've had...

OK, pulled out the B&W again and tried this. Unfortunately no dice this way, either. I connected the SSD device to the "outer" bus and the optical drive to the "inner" bus, and I just got a blank grey screen. No cursor or activity on the drives. I tried various configurations of this (both...

Referencing the two IDE buses that are next to each other (looking at the machine from the side with the door open), I used it on the one that the original HDD connected to on the left (with the short IDE cable) - is that the "inner" or "outer", I wonder? There were no jumper pins to configure...

Following up on this thread with some further developments: Someone else also suggested that I try an IDE-to-SATA solution for the G3 B&W, so I decided to give that a try. Ordered one along with an mSATA-to-SATA adapter housing and a 64GB mSATA drive. Put it into the G3, and ... it didn't...

Glad to hear it! Yeah, I figured they'd eventually come off with enough force but I lack a concrete floor to use. I've kept the old drivers so I can swap the shields over at some point in the future ... though the CRT doesn't seem to be visibly impacted by whatever magnetism is present. The...

Yeah, for me it has nothing to do with the speed of the machine, how useful it is/was, the screen size, or any practical considerations whatsoever. The keyboard is mushy and terrible, the display has become dim with age, and the plastics are so brittle they snap apart with just an errant...

Interesting ... and somewhat validating that you are having the same issue, lol. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, but just thankful the 20330 does at least seem to work in *some* machines. And yeah, that other thread may be correct also but I guess I'll never know since this adapter...

Would *maybe* be worth half that if it had 100% of the original boxes and accessories, etc. But hey, at least it's not one of these units being advertised for literally $20k. LOL

Update/edit: I decided to throw the SSD and housing/adapter into my Key Lime iBook, and lo and behold the thing immediately worked perfectly. Installed OS 9 from CD and it boots right up. So, looks like the problem was either the 2.5"-3.5" adapter (which would be strange because it's just...

OK, so after several more days of struggling (and slicing my hand open on the sharp case internals, lol) I've not had any further luck. Trying to boot off of both a 32GB and a 4GB partition yielded the same results (freezing at "Welcome to Mac OS" splash). So, I am going to chalk this up to...

Interesting, thanks for those links. I'm going to read through and dig a bit deeper tomorrow when I'm hopefully more rested up. Yes, at the beginning I tried partitioning to two 32GB partitions and that had no effect. I'll give the 4GB a try as well and see if that changes anything... I also...

Same result with that (copying files from HDD onto SSD plugged into optical slot). Yeah, if Slimes is right then it's an issue with the 2.5" to 3.5" adapter, which sucks. Especially if 33MB/s is listed for the ATA to mSATA component. On the other hand, it seems the mSATA drive and ATA adapter...

Tried putting the SSD back in the ZIP drive bay, and it does not even attempt to boot there (just flashing "?"). I tried all the jumper options to no avail. I tried it several more times in the main bay, but it just froze at the Happy Mac each time. So, looks like this is just not going to...

When powering up and holding down the left shift key, it only makes it to the Happy Mac icon and then the system freezes. Tried it 3 or 4 times. (Actually one time it made it to "Welcome to Mac OS - Extensions Disabled" and then froze). Put the HDD back in and it spun up just fine. Was back...

Got that swapped in, thanks for the tip. After figuring out the jumper settings I was able to copy the contents of the HDD onto the SSD, then swapped the SSD back in to the main bay and removed jumper. Now, it boots but I get to the "Welcome to Mac OS" splash and then the system freezes. None...

Yeah, was afraid it'd be difficult to troubleshoot. I don't currently have an extra IDE splitter cable to use but that is a good idea. The original HDD is currently not working (some days it does, some days it doesn't) so I'll see about picking up a splitter cable and trying that, assuming the...

Howdy folks, The original HDD in my G3 B&W has become somewhat unreliable so I decided it was time for an SSD upgrade. After considering various options I got this 64GB Transcend SSD, to put into this SSD to IDE adapter, and install using this 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. When booted from the...