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[supernova777]

to my amazement its still running off the original 2001 hard drive!! and running mac os X 10.1.3!!!!!

LOL!

i cant believe this lady i bought this from never upgraded past 10.1.x LOL!!

too funny;)

this hard drive makes so much noise everytime it reads lolol wow.. im amazed it still works
this computer must have spent most of the last 10 years turned off for sure

[Protools5LEGuy]

Congratz! Are you ashamed to told us the price? Did you steal an old lady?              

[supernova777]

yea i saw her on the street and knocked the old bag out with an elbow to the face and ran with the mac down the st;D
lol

i paid $30 
i dont think i have seen osx 10.1 since my work in 2001..
and i rememeber complaining so much because it was missing this "click titlebar to roll up window"
i was so used to using on os 9:)

it feels nice + speedy compared to my sawtooth thats for sure..
if only i could get this mod done to put my 867mhz cpu from the one i killed inside my sawtooth..
i dont know how im to run this 12v of power.. do i just strip a live power wire? and wrap it around the leg?
i wish i could see some pics of this mod.. to insert QS cpu inside a Sawtooth
im pretty sure this 867mhz logic board is dead it wont turn on since it happened still.. RIP:D

[Protools5LEGuy]

i wish i could see some pics of this mod.. to insert QS cpu inside a Sawtooth
im pretty sure this 867mhz logic board is dead it wont turn on since it happened still.. RIP:D

I am not sure this mod is plausible

You can use a QS cpu on a DA machine running the mod of the 4th leg. But on a sawtooth I had never read about...

[DieHard]

Ohhh... you bought an Original Mac Keyboard for the fair price of $30 and got a free Quick Silver... good job

[supernova777]

hmm did the 933 qs LACK big drive support? because the 250gb WDJB drive thats in thing was formatted to 127gb
so im wondering if this was some type of software-error on the part of the "not so ssavy" original owner or if indeed
the machine's ide controller has no support for the 250gb drive...

seems i would need to use
http://www.speedtools2.com/
ata hi-capacity driver

but this is X only...
so i might aswell just remove this 250gb drive anyway;D

[supernova777]

i think i should just have a viking funeral for my 867mhz qs.. set it on fire + have a good cry
and get it over with LOL


http://www.ebay.com/itm/FastMac-G4-SDR-800MHz-Macintosh-CPU-Upgrade-Card-/141219196439?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20e151ee17

something like this would be a great match for my sawtooth
to go from 7400 450mhz to 7455 800mhz
would be not so shabby for 25$

or i should just put this machine on a shelf + stop playing with it.. but for soem reason i have emotional attachment to the sawtooth
its the g4 mac that was the greatest + most common place for a long time;)
evre since before i ever even came on this forum i saw a blog post of someone who had a 1.8ghz cpu in their sawtooth
and they repainted their mac with auto paint + made it look super custom + fresh! its made me want this
"REVENGE OF THE SAWTOOTH" geeky upgrade dream to come true:)

[supernova777]

Ohhh... you bought an Original Mac Keyboard for the fair price of $30 and got a free Quick Silver... good job

and extra 250gb PATA drive i needed for my raid array.. sweet!

[arjen_1]

Congrats...I go the same machine. A perfect OS9 workhorse.
The only thing that bothers me is it's fan noise. I have this low frequency hummmm that anoys me.
And yours? Quiet or also noisy?

Greetz,
Arjen

[supernova777]

my qs doesnt like some of my dvds.. on the back it says:

dvd-r/cdrw

does this mean dvd READ ONLY .. but CD READ/WRITE?

it probably means its a dvd reader that only likes to read commercial dvds.. right?
and has problems with burned discs?

doing a stupid install of OSX tiger..... just so i can install the os9general.dmg..
disk utility under X 10.1.3 didnt have the option to "Restore dmg to partition"!

[arjen_1]

my qs doesnt like some of my dvds.. on the back it says:

dvd-r/cdrw

does this mean dvd READ ONLY .. but CD READ/WRITE?

Yes it does...however mine doesn't have a problem with reading burned dvd's etc.

[Jakl]

Just got a brand new mdd G4 Firewire800 1ghz for 0.99cents on ebay. Running 10.2.4 no classic.

[supernova777]

nice one jakl. it looks pretty clean. shame u cant run os 9 on that tho;(

[supernova777]

Congrats...I go the same machine. A perfect OS9 workhorse.
The only thing that bothers me is it's fan noise. I have this low frequency hummmm that anoys me.
And yours? Quiet or also noisy?

Greetz,
Arjen

mines pretty damn quiet actually. maybe ur fan needs some WD40

[Jakl]

Chrisnova777 said:
nice one jakl. it looks pretty clean. shame u cant run os 9 on that tho;(

Where there's a will there's a way...

[arjen_1]

mines pretty damn quiet actually. maybe ur fan needs some WD40

There's nothing WD40 can't handle! I'll give it a try

[DieHard]

mines pretty damn quiet actually. maybe ur fan needs some WD40

There's nothing WD40 can't handle! I'll give it a try

Hope you guys are all kidding... don't ever use WD40 on any computer fans, Mac / PC fans have sealed bearings (and never need lubricating). If it's making noise or refuses to spin freely, it's worn out and should be replaced.  WD40 isn't a very good way to lube other types of bearings anyway. It's half solvent and is too thin for the job.

Keep WD40 away from your mac 

[IIO]

hmm did the 933 qs LACK big drive support?

it shouldnt, my 200 gbs do work, and so 500 gbs must work, too.

here in europe we had QS 2001 with 733 (no 2nd leve cache), 867, dual 800 and 933 – and only the first two had the 128 gb limited controller.

[supernova777]

hmm did the 933 qs LACK big drive support?

it shouldnt, my 200 gbs do work, and so 500 gbs must work, too.

here in europe we had QS 2001 with 733 (no 2nd leve cache), 867, dual 800 and 933 – and only the first two had the 128 gb limited controller.

i think it was because the drive was formatted in 10.1 osx version..
because when i used the 9.2.2 to format it saw the whole drive..
this is because big drive support was introduced with 9.2.2 update i think. or maybe 9.2.0
was mentioned in this thread: http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=397.0
re: apple drive setup

[arjen_1]

mines pretty damn quiet actually. maybe ur fan needs some WD40

There's nothing WD40 can't handle! I'll give it a try

Hope you guys are all kidding... don't ever use WD40 on any computer fans, Mac / PC fans have sealed bearings (and never need lubricating). If it's making noise or refuses to spin freely, it's worn out and should be replaced.  WD40 isn't a very good way to lube other types of bearings anyway. It's half solvent and is too thin for the job.

Keep WD40 away from your mac 

Just in time...I was seriously thinking about it. 
Thanks!