[Ti] Re: Ti logicboard and combo upgrade ?

[Ondra Soukup]

Right, as I saw the keyboard mounting and heatsinks, I'll put my HD  
and display to 550.

Can the white outer frame be exchanged at least ? Looks the same from  
400-1GHz :)

After all swapping the point is to make headless 400 power-0,8inch- 
mac for my brother :)

On Aug 10, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Dan K wrote:

> Ondra Soukup <ondras at di.cz> wrote:
>
>> After one year I had been given a Ti from a friend for 2 weeks of use
>> while my had been repaired , I saw it again.
>> Horror. Broken hinges.About 200 pixels from right side of the screen
>> were just white, you needed to press the corner to see something. The
>> outer white frame was all scratched/black. Hard drive clicking around
>> (lots of bad blocks) when idle. That's what happens when you give
>> something to employe.
>>
>> So now I'll get the "rest"... 550MHz logic board (also keyboard),
>> combo drive....
>>  The question is if the 550MHz logic board could fit into my 400MHz
>> (now 500MHz :) body ?
>> As I just lifted up the keyboard on the 550, I saw that the combo
>> drive is shorter...keyboard uses another connector so I would need to
>> replace mine DE-ISO for EN-ANSI (thanks god, I'm not german :).
>> Will the new COMBO fit into old 400MHz chassis ?
>> Is there a way to overclock the 550 to 667 as it could be done with
>> the first series Ti ?
>>
>> Maybe little bit confusing, but I hope you get it.
>>
> Yes, a little confusing. :-)
>
> The 400/500 series and the 550/667 series cannot interchange logic
> boards, at least not without a serious re-engineering of the other's
> chassis. I don't think it's worth the trouble unless you have the  
> time,
> tools and talent.
>
> Here's the confusing part - you do have the 550 chassis? If so . . .
>
> The displays are completely interchangable as is the HD. I'd suggest
> simply swapping the 400/500 display onto the 550, along with the  
> good HD.
> Then, even if the 550's cosmetics aren't great, at least you'll have a
> working complete 'Book. You could always put some fresh paint on the
> scratchedup edges (be creative!)
>
> Yes, the 550 can at the very least be overclocked to 133MHz system  
> bus. I
> haven't yet been able to find details on overclocking the CPU though.
> Anyone have that?
> <http://www.voelker.com/service/void_powerbookg4bus/ 
> powerbookg4bus.php>
> For all Mac overclocking info I usually start at Marc Schrier's page:
> <http://homepage.mac.com/schrier/mhz.html>
>
> dan k
>
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