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I don't know if other manufacturers did this, but Sonnet for a time was putting high temp cpu's in upgrades and overclocking them. Sonnet claimed reliability was the same, since the chip was a high-temperature chip and could tolerate an overclock at the lower temps of a Mac. Still, I think the...

The Sonnet Tango is the only Firewire/USB card I used that didn’t cause data corruption with Firewire hard drives. An early NEC chip based Orange Micro card for Mac was terrible in that regard, as was a generic card from CompUSA. PM8600.

I did the mod on the drive carrier, and my Matshita UJ-850S rev1.9 DVD-R/RW DL was able to boot from the Jaguar CD by pressing "C" on the keyboard at startup. This is fantastic - thanks again!

Your timing is uncanny - I am literally sitting in front of my Lombard, on top of which is a DVD-RW in a CD-ROM shell. I am looking forward to trying this mod, and I thank you very much for this info!

I once bought a very clean IIfx on eBay for $5 plus $20 shipping. There was no dust anywhere inside, including the fan blades. Sold as “broken,” it just needed new PRAM batteries. 2005 was a very different time.

I realize it has been over a year since you posted the question, and may no longer need the answer, but it looks like this info used to be available at xlr8yourmac.com. I cannot vouch for its accuracy. The pinout diagram from xlr8yourmac.com as archived by the Wayback Machine: Edit: Just...

The 17” version uses a flat cell that is no longer made. I have searched high and low for a 17” PB battery, only to receive batteries made for the 17” MacBook Pro.

I’m new to this thread (and forum) but thought I’d make a comment about my own rebuild of PRAM batteries on a few of my 17” PowerBooks a few years ago. I used copper foil with electrically conductive adhesive to connect the batteries in parallel, and then soldered tabs of the foil to the...