So I reseated the daughterboard (several times, as repeated reinsertion is known to "clean" pins and contacts of many different types, before settling on a good-sounding one with a solid 'thud'), repasted the chips, and attached the heatsink once more. After trying most everything else in the book up to that point, I decided that since I was now out of options, reseating the Quicksilver's dual G4 daughterboard was at least worth a shot as a last ditch effort to get it stable, in the event that even one of its pins might not be making perfect contact with the slot. Going from vague memory, I deduced that I either swapped out its RAM, or more likely, reseated its CPU. Although the details were fuzzy, I knew that it was working fine now, so I must have done something to resolve it. Over the course of the next day, it dawned on me that a Dell Dimension E521 I had upgraded the CPU of last year exhibited the same behavior. Distraught and exasperated, I decided to sleep on it in hopes of coming to another solution. I started to comb across the motherboard looking for signs of damage, to which I was met with none (in fact, it was actually quite pristine given that I had it sealed in plastic bags for all that time). No less than a dozen PRAM and PMU resets later, I was beginning to suspect a broken-off resistor or accidentally severed electrical line somewhere. I then proceed on with the standard process of elimination, eventually stripping it down to the bare essentials (including trying a different GPU), which still didn't solve the periodic freezes. ![]() So of course, I swap it out with a few other high-density sticks of smaller sizes. Naturally, I initially thought that this was RAM-related, suspecting that it for whatever reason didn't like my lone low-density 512 MB PC133 stick. Nonetheless, I excitedly finished reassembling everything together (this was before the rebuilding process was finished), attached it to a 20" ADC Cinema Display I had acquired during last December, and booted it up for the very first time.īut the troubles didn't end there although it did boot to Jaguar (I had already moved a drive over from the MDD containing installs of 9.2 and 10.2), it kept freezing at random intervals, and it only got worse with time, getting faster and faster to freeze after booting. So with that in mind, I reset the PMU with the little motherboard button and tried again, this time being met with success, albeit sans chime. Having prior experience with my MDD, I already knew that the Power Mac G4s in particular have always been a little twitchy concerning power. Upon trying to power it on for the first time, the power button just glowed when pressed and went out when released. Unfortunately however, the machine's first indication of life with the new PSU was not a terribly encouraging one. So, after I dusted off and reassembled all the original components I've kept in storage since that point, cleaned the pieces, spliced some wires, screwed the parts, reorganized the cabling, and plugged the connectors, it was physically back to its old self once again. Because I last used it as an elaborate enclosure for my Raspberry Pi 3, it was at this point just an empty husk with its future in question, G4 internals scattered about. Last weekend, I finally got the chance to procure a replacement power supply for the Quicksilver I've had inactively waiting since October 2019 for a reasonable price. Pull up a chair, and read at your leisure. ![]() ![]() Since we're all here for a self-explanatory common interest, and always seem to enjoy sharing stories surrounding said common interest, I figured that you guys might like this one.
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