This week I did not get to Free Geek Minneapolis on Wednesday. So I went on Saturday (today). There was a pile of several SUN systems if anyone wanted to know.
I still can't say no. There was another G4 project for $10, 'no boot, no video card, as-is'
It has 4 sticks of RAM, I pulled them all, installed an AGP video card and my 3.5" G3 Strawberry hard drive. First power up it chimed, did the PRAM reset for 3 chimes and the drive showed up in the boot picker.
The PSU fan is a little noisy, so I may disassemble that later and see whats going on. Put the original RAM back in and it still fired up.
Dual G4-450MHz with a real heatsink (see my cobble job on my other Dual G4-450 in the 2024 PPC Challenge)
I rummaged through a bin of iPod parts and found this stuff for $1 each...
A Griffin iTalk for my iPod Gen3 Dock Connector!!! Not exactly sure what the 30pin FireWire and audio jack is for?
Next stop was the UofM ReUse warehouse. Found and iBook G3 -500MHz for $20, looks pretty clean, missing 3 rubber feet.
Unfortunately, it appears to have a backlight issue... and it would not see my FireWire boot drive, so further investigation will have to be done.
And some spare keyboards for reasonable prices, they will need a little cleanup.
And I dug through the mess of wires in a bin and found a FireWire 400 card I can use in a hackintosh as well as a Dr. Bott DVInator (DVI to ADC converter, requires cube psu). Some other random cables and adapters... and all for the sale price of scrap at $1 per pound.
I still can't say no. There was another G4 project for $10, 'no boot, no video card, as-is'
It has 4 sticks of RAM, I pulled them all, installed an AGP video card and my 3.5" G3 Strawberry hard drive. First power up it chimed, did the PRAM reset for 3 chimes and the drive showed up in the boot picker.
The PSU fan is a little noisy, so I may disassemble that later and see whats going on. Put the original RAM back in and it still fired up.
Dual G4-450MHz with a real heatsink (see my cobble job on my other Dual G4-450 in the 2024 PPC Challenge)
I rummaged through a bin of iPod parts and found this stuff for $1 each...
A Griffin iTalk for my iPod Gen3 Dock Connector!!! Not exactly sure what the 30pin FireWire and audio jack is for?
Next stop was the UofM ReUse warehouse. Found and iBook G3 -500MHz for $20, looks pretty clean, missing 3 rubber feet.
Unfortunately, it appears to have a backlight issue... and it would not see my FireWire boot drive, so further investigation will have to be done.
And some spare keyboards for reasonable prices, they will need a little cleanup.
And I dug through the mess of wires in a bin and found a FireWire 400 card I can use in a hackintosh as well as a Dr. Bott DVInator (DVI to ADC converter, requires cube psu). Some other random cables and adapters... and all for the sale price of scrap at $1 per pound.
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