I’ve been looking everywhere for the voltage my iMac g4 supports in order to power it. I don’t know if it’s 125 or 240 volt. In my area the voltage is 240 volts. If I buy an original iMac g4 cable and plug it in my iMac will something happen? Because it says on the cable 125 volts when usually Apple says 125/240

My boss gave me a Mac LC ii that he was going to toss. He said it didn't power on.

My first thought was dead PSU if there was no power at all, but when I got it home, pulled the top, and hit the switch, I saw that it did have fan spin which means it is getting power and the issue is somewhere else.

The HDD is not spinning up, nor is the FDD initializing. There's also no audible chime. It's got nothing going on but the fan.

I pulled the 3.5V battery and it's only reading at .5V, so that thing is toast. This is my first vintage Mac (or any Mac, for that matter), and I'm not sure how reliant the system is on that battery to be present and good.

I'm not seeing any apparent physical issues with the board. I'm not sure of the condition of the caps, though they are at least not leaking from what I can see.

Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting?

Got an iMac G3 with blown speakers and tried to use an external speaker. Only works with headset that I use with my Xbox. I’ve tried all the ports and still makes no difference.

They all work, too!

Hello everyone,

I am new to the topic of old Apple things, so I want to learn how to use an Apple Quicktake 150 that I found without cables, or anything, I currently have a white macbook 1.1 and a clamshell ibook with mac os 10.3.9.

I tried to install mac os 9.2.2 from macintoshrepository but I had errors when installing it since apparently I need the installation cd, which is impossible to get where I live.

Does anyone know the type of cable I should use, and how to use the software correctly?

Greetings to all.

I've been looking at buying a Mac SE FDDH M5011 that's available locally, and I'm wondering about formatting floppies for it. I've done research and have found conflicting information about formatting a floppy. This guy here https://youtu.be/Q0Wlx3g2aGg?si=sALMbxGoDmnYv6i5 does it for a mac se but people in the comments are saying that it doesn't work. People also mention a tape trick? I'm sorry if this question is obvious but I have no experience with this era of personal computing, I'm 19

Is there a way to reinstall Photo Booth if I deleted it. I have an Intel machine and I t was an OSX tiger installer that didn’t come with Photo Booth. It was the only installer that worked for me. So can someone tell me where I can re install it?

I believe I was around 12 years old when I decided to tear apart my families original aqua blue iMac. (not exactly sure what year, but still had a disc tray before the slot loaders came into production) I was meticulous and took everything apart piece by piece without ripping anything. At the time, I just thought all the parts were cool, despite not knowing what they were, and went to work disassembling. I realize now how I lucked out by not sorting myself from the power supply and the CRT.

Just wondering what the potential of danger actually was doing that with no knowledge at the time?

Alright, so I'm looking to buy one of these computers and I stumbled upon one for fairly cheap, but, according to the seller "It marks an error when reading the disk and it turns off and on" any idea on how to fix this? Thanks! :)

I bought the lamp since the previous was damaged, however, I have no idea where it goes…

Hey everyone! First time poster here. Apologies if this has been covered before but I’m a bit stumped. I recently got a G4 Cube and am in love with it! Everything works except when it’s in the enclosure it force reboots after being on for about 10 - 20 seconds and the power button rapidly flashes about five times. Then it just repeats.

If it’s out of the enclosure it doesn’t automatically start up when plugged in, the power button responds as expected, and it boots without issue.

I’ve already tried the tape and paper trick I’ve read online to cover the power button for sensitivity issues. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

Just got a PowerBook G4 titanium in a working condition,but seems like its hinge is really tight . I’m worried about maybe it will crack after a few open and close,so is there any way to fix this issue?

I recently bought a g3 revision A iMac and I was looking to upgrade to 256mb of ram and 120gb of ssd storage. Will any old ram sticks and any ssd with an adapter be able to work, or does it need to be very specific. (Obviously I know that it needs to be compatible, I just don’t know of any hardware restrictions)

I have a Macintosh Classic II which Ive been restoring. Unfortunately, the date and time do not save, despite replacing the clock battery. I’ve tested the battery and it has the correct 3.6 volts. I’ve also recapped the board, so that may have caused the issue, but I didn’t test the date and time before the recap, so I’m not sure. What should I do? Thanks!

I got this iMac G3 DV SE for $50 a few weeks ago at a neighborhood rummage sale, including the original keyboard and mouse. It wouldn't boot and I was concerned both the optical drive and hard drive were bricked.

Well, after replacing the hard drive with a SSD I was able to load OS 9.2.1 no problem. I was also pleasantly surprised to see a gigabyte of RAM and an airport card inside. While I had it open I replaced the PRAM battery too.

Not everything is perfect. Speakers are prone to a clicking noise, I think might be damaged. The eject mechanism on the optical drive isn't in mint condition either but it does function, albeit barely.

Other thab that, the only problem is figuring out what to run on it!

Luckily I’m almost done cleaning it already, just gotta brush out all the dead spiders lol

I installed Mac OS X 10.3.5 from my system recovery discs on my Power Mac G5, and that went fine. I then installed Mac OS 9.2.2 via the classic environment manager, and tried to run some old games.

Everything I tried had horrible, choppy performance, regardless of how much memory I allocated. Is this as issue with the G5 or is there anything I can do to resolve this?

Native OS X apps run fine, or course.

Does anyone know where I could find the box art to some of the software. For example for iLife 6, it is only the box facing an odd way, not a scan in. I want to put the CD/DVD into jewel cases but I have no covers. MacOS would go into DVD cases. I would like a Ilife 6, Ilife for the classroom, iWork, MacOS 9, MacOS 10,2, 10,4, and 10.5., Virtual PC 7, and Office 2004 for mac.

I’ve recently acquired a PowerBook Pismo and everything is fine, however the rubber part on lid (and the bottom part but at a lesser degree) is pretty sticky… I wanted to know if it was possible to fix (I’ve seen a lot of methods on the internet but the comments are usually very mixed) if it’s not possible I was thinking about either wrapping the rubberized part with something with a matching color or in the worst scenario remove it (however I don’t know how the PowerBook looks like without it, and I wanted to know if anyone has already tried it)

Does any one know where I could get the 3D print files for the Apple pro speaker covers? Also on my Power Mac G4 Quicksilver, the GPU green plastic thing is broken, does any one have a 3D print file for them?

I have an elderly neighbor that does very well with their older Windows PC but they still have this 17" CRT monitor that is huge and heavy.

I have multiple 2005 era Cinema 20" or 23" displays and would like to give them one to use on the PC. I did confirm their CRT is using VGA to connect.

I looked through all my vintage supplies and did not have this type of adapter. I have about 15 of the opposite (male DVI to female VGA). I need female DVI-D to male VGA. What brand adapters are decent these days?

I may have to look at their PC and verify if there are other video ports that are newer.

Thanks!

I recently bought an 500Mhz IMac G3. I wanted to replace the old hard drive with a new SSD. I know the G3 only recognises up to 128Gb of any hard drive. my question is if I can still install a 240gb harddrive and only use the first 128Gb? would I be able to make two 120gb partisions?