[G4] Hello

[Alan Kidner]

Hi John, Dan and List Members

I put some notes up on the list at the time I did the conversion.  Just 
used Googled to find them again: 
http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/G4/2010-January/019085.html

This is pretty much all I know.  I hope it is helpful.

Best regards,

Alan
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On 15/01/2011 16:55, CDT wrote:
> John Sparks, Have you looked into the ATX power supply option?  Maybe 
> Alan could direct you to the pinouts and necessary changes.
> Dan
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Alan Kidner wrote:
>
>> Hi List Members
>>
>> I'm still on the list too!
>>
>> I climbed in a skip at work to rescue my Power Mac G4 (FW 800).  I 
>> enjoyed bringing it back to life!  Its now fitted with a standard ATX 
>> power supply, flashed GeForce 7800GS PC graphics card, internal 250MB 
>> zip drive, and a striped RAID set on a Sonnet Tempo card.
>>
>> The machine runs sweetly most of the time but has two slight 
>> glitches.  1)  Occasionally in the summer the CPU temperature gets a 
>> little high and the fan kicks in harder and gets a little noisy for a 
>> while.  2) Screen flashes on boot-up for about two minutes before 
>> settling down to work normally.  I believe this is something to do 
>> with the flashed graphics card (but it might also be because its 
>> hooked up to a KVM switch).  I have gone where angels fear to tread 
>> and edited a couple of kext files (NVDAResman.kext and 
>> NVDANV40Hal.kext) but this did not work.  Any suggestions most welcome.
>>
>> Best regards to all, Alan
>> (Leicestershire, England)
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