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If the original drive is still functioning, why not boot with the old hdd, connect the SSD as a second drive and clone/copy the spinners contents to the SSD? Then replace the spinner with the SSD & boot. Why that install is failing could be a myriad of issues from adapter incompatibility to...

I am not a fan of the shallow keyboard tolerances on the M2 keyboard. I used a generic silicone cover to add height to the keys. It has nothing to do with keeping it clean although I ended up setting up my son on it to do his virtual summer reading club classes, so not a bad idea for little...

My 75&81 y/o parents were flying back from Alaska when this F’d everything up. Initially it grounded their plane for a little over an hour which they thought would make them late to their connecting gate but their pilot was a goat & pushed the heck out of that airbus making up about 45 minutes...

Wow, there are five states in the Union that do not charge internet sales tax to residents for internet purchases. Of course my state isn’t one of them lol 😂

I think there are quite a few polished distros in 2024 that are really easy entry points for folks who just want it to work like Ubuntu for example. Polished UI, regular updates, decent snap repo, annd community etc. Now the fragmentation he speaks to I think is a natural byproduct of an open...

I purchased some MS office software this way through an old employer for like $20 bucks. At the time it was the only way I could afford MS office for my 08 macbook. Still have it of course. :) @2112st congrats on your M3 MBP. I really am enjoying my M2 16" MBP quite a bit. My wife thinks it's...

Which g4 laptop do you have? Some used capacitors where others used batteries. In any of these, you will be opening up the laptop for replacement.

The first case I had where the housing didn’t come off in a big bent “U” shape was an Antec Dragon mid case. The one I had was space gray and also was the first PC case I got with a window & I particularly loved how the drive bays were all hidden behind a sleek door. That was the first build...

Great job. These beige box rebuilds bring back late 90s/TOTC gaming nostalgia feelies for me. I never had a TV tuner card though :) Makes me want to snag one and stick it in one of my win boxes.

This is my garage/workshop cMP 1,1. It still crushes it. At some point I figure I'll throw linux on here but El Cap still runs great on this machine so there's little incentive. I guess if I ever run out of things to do LOL. The GPU I'm using is a NVIDIA 240 GT that I've had for ages. No boot...

Nice. I enjoy my cMP 1,1 alot. I have Lion and El Cap on mine.

This is the 7000 pci card that I flashed and lives in my B&W. There’s another pci 7000 that looks almost identical but under the hood is a Radeon mobility and doesn’t flash worth a darn … or at least I wasn’t able to get it to work lol.

This thread over on the MRF PowerPC forum might be helpful. Good luck.

This reminds me of my ext 1tb backup for my 08 a1048 mb. The case died a horrible drop death fracture but the guts survived - just the pcb and the hdd sitting as a book end on one of my book shelves connected to the mb via a long usb cable. lol jank I guess but it works for me. :)

If you want FW800, you can readily source a fw800 pci card on eBay. I saw a couple for $20 & is how I got fw800 into my quicksilver. Max thruput is 800mbits. Crushes USB2 at 480 but I suppose you need to have a FW800 device for that to make much sense.

If that adapter doesn't fit in the maxtor case (hopefully it will), I would look at an external hdd case that has a broad I/o choice like USB1/2 & FW 400/800. Something like this mini g-drive would do the trick & is pretty cheap (not my auction/no relation). IIRC they fit a 2.5" formfactor/SSD...

The Texas Instruments TSB43 series is the one to look for.

One thing that really bugs me is that for the life of me I cannot see the print on the chipset. Even with my magnifying glass I cant make it out. In my defense the chipset on this particular adapter is absolutely teeny-tiny. Gettin' old! :D . . . Ok, took the magnifyer off my helping hands and...

To drill down on the green adapters that DO work in some of my powerPC macs. I have three of these green pata/sata adapters marked RXD-629A7-7 that DO work - one in a revb bondi and another in my QS and a third in my win2k Dell Dimensions xps r450. Not going to pull apart the g3 lol but here’s...

For my Powermacs, I look for PCI USB2 cards that have a NEC or TI chipset. I have several usb2 & usb2/fw400 combo cards with VIA chipset that are flaky and inconsistent in OSX. My NEC/TI cards are rock solid. VIA are typically cheaper yes but I dont recommend them in PPC boxes. Common brands...