Hi,
I have the possibility to acquire a G4 cube for a very good price, with the Studio Display, keyboard and speakers. Aesthetically it is very good, and it has all the internal components.
The problem is that the 3 cables that are connected to the DC-to-Dc board are cut. The seller tells me that when he bought it they were already cut, I don't know why the first owner cut them, but they are all 3 cut in half.
Is it possible to get spare parts for these three cables? The connectors of the two cables on the left are also missing. Are they standard cables? Where could I get them?
I've done a search but can't find anything ...
Thank you very much for the help!
I stumbled upon a beautiful condition mirror drive door single 1.25GHz G4 machine out by the bins. Looks like someone took the CPU fan out as they were notoriously noisy and never replaced it. It still boots but is probably unreliable.
I was thinking of doing a quicksilver style conversion to mATX but the MDD layout is completely different due to the higher clock speeds needing more cooling.
So, what should I do with this? I was thinking it would be funny to put a Raspberry Pi on a PCI slot mount as an ode to miniaturization.
Anybody have a gutted/broken Graphite or Quicksilver that wants to trade or anything?
Album with more pics - https://imgur.com/a/tGMVX0e
| Item | Info | Pics | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock GTX 970 | It doesn't have any problems and works fine. The shroud has been painted red. | Time stamp | $100 shipped. |
| Apple IIe | Honestly I don't feel like typing it all out again so see this post | Time stamp | $100 Local Pick up only. |
| Power Mac G4 Tower | I don't know the exact specs on this thing so I cant write much here but it boots fine, and comes with a power cable. | Time stamp | $50 Local Pick up only. |
Hiya. Recently found my old Power Mac G4 MDD (nicknamed "Eole" due to the L O U D PSU fans) (Twin Processor @1.4GHz each, 2 GB of RAM, and a ATI RV250/Radeon 9000 SE.) i got for Easter 2019. Had problems trying to update/upgrade and needed some advice.
- Where to find a suitable ISO of OS X 10.4, and how to burn it through a Windows 10 rig ?
- Could a other AGP graphics card work ?
Thanks in advance.
I inherited a G4 from a university club years ago and it's been sitting in a closet. I brought it out to see if I could bring it back for some retro Warcraft 2 battlenet but I'm having display issues. I've tried an old Dell monitor and a modern Samsung monitor via VGA thru the ATI rage 128 graphics card output but there is no picture. Is this a common problem? Is there a cheap solution? Apologies in advance if these are common questions but I'd love to get this old Mac to work after all of these years. Thanks for any advice / help!
Hi everyone,
Recently acquired a vintage Quicksilver Power Mac G4 from a garage sale. Owner was in IT and assured me it works.
Hooked it up, powered on, would get stuck on a grey screen infinitely without an Apple icon or folder question mark icon. Basically no response.
Figured I would need to reinstall OS 9 or OS X.
Did all the research and got a Mac-OS-9222.iso file onto a flash drive, because couldn’t burn a CDROM.
Anyways, now I try booting the computer up with various commands:
Hold shift.
Hold S.
Hold Command + S.
Hold C.
Hold Command + Option + O + F.
Sometimes holding these keys would prevent grey screen from loading, but no screen would then load.
Opened the tower and reset the PRAM. Pressed the button. Held down the buttons heard the 3 boops.
Booted the computer and no changes.
Removed the RAM and reintroduced.
At this point, computer will no longer boot up. I think I fried the power supply.
Will turn on and then shuts off nearly immediately. If continue to hold the on button LED will remain lit.
Is the computer just scrap metal now? Any ideas on what might have solved the original issue and what may solve the new issue?
Really tried my best to revive this old beauty, but seems like I’m at a standstill.
Hi, I’m new to this group, but, while I was on vacation in Hawaii in 1994, I fell in love with laserdiscs.
Recently, I came across a Power Mac G4 desktop computer that was equipped with a CD-ROM drive, Zip 100, 3.5” floppy drive, and a LaserDisc drive. When I saw that beast, I instantly fell in love with it.
Just out of curiosity, did any LaserDisc Drives exist for a computer, or was it strictly for home theaters? I would love to have seen that happen.
Let's recap a bit.
DAY #1
I brought home this PowerMac G4 (Power Mac G4 MDD 1.25 GHz).
It's a 2003 model, built in April 2004, it had a single 1.25 GHz Processor, 1.75 GB of RAM, a 15.3 GB IBM DeskStar drive and a ATi Radeon 9000 Pro.
DAY #2
I cleaned some small oxidation spots from the board (which fixed a whine that could be heard through the speaker and/or the headphones), I expanded the RAM to 2.0 GB, I used the old 15.3 GB IDE drive as an Installer Disk and installed both a SSD and a 320 GB Seagate Barracuda which would serve respectively as OS and Storage.
Then as soon as I started using the G4, I totally understood why it was nicknamed "The Windtunnel"; so I started looking around for some tricks to reduce the noise.
DAY #3
By searching on Google, I came to this post on the LTT Forum (Power Mac G4 Noisy Fans Replacement) where the user replaced the PSU fans with a pair of Noctuas. I bought these, installed them and voilà: no more noisy PSU!
Very happy, I shut it down and went to sleep.
DAY #4
The very next morning, when I went to fire up the G4, I discovered it was as dead as a Dodo. Tried to unplug the AC Main, tried to unplug all the drives, tried to remove the RAM, the GPU, everything. I even tried to remove and reinstall the Battery, installed a new battery, tried a PMU Reset. Nothing: silent, cold and dark. Not even the white power LED was coming up.
So I disassembled the PSU again, to see if maybe a fuse was blown or I messed up something when installing the fans. Nothing: all looked regular in there. No shorts, no blown fuse, no strange smells. At the end of the day, I left it disassembled overnight because I didn't have time to reassemble it.
DAY #5
The following day, I reassembled it and, to my surprise, it powered on! I reinstalled all the basic parts (I left outside the Seagate Barracuda) just to see if it would boot normally into OS X. It did it fine.
But then, when I installed the 320GB Seagate Barracuda, as soon as I pressed the power button I could hear a clear "THUMP" from the inside. I quickly unplugged the AC cord and I soon discovered that the PCB of the Seagate Barracuda was up in smoke. A strong burnt smells was coming from that and many components showed signs of Ba
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I’m upgrading my collection display stand and using my first gen iPad as a “tour guide” preloaded with the key information for each product (name, year released, specs, Steve Jobs keynote) and can’t find a keynote for the Power Mac G4.
If anyone knows it’s out there and could help me find the video, I’d greatly appreciate it! I don’t care if it’s short or low quality, just looking for any video of the Power Mac G4 keynote.
here's the clip, starting at 1:23:00
The crowd goes wild too
