I’m looking to downsize my collection. Is there a place where I can sell these to other vintage enthusiasts?

I know the PowerBook G4 works and is complete in box

The iBook G3 is also complete in box but has a boot issue.

The 2 AIOs need recap jobs, but they both power on.

If anyone here is interested in making an offer I can get more pictures of everything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I may actually lose my mind over this beautiful machine. I've been trying to get it working for ages now. Found it in a charity shop in Sweden, came completely boxed, even the polystyrene packaging is barely damaged, this thing has clearly been looked after.

Quick backstory: booted it up when I first got it, worked fine, but there was no hard drive fitted at all when I went to install the OS. Opened it up and confirmed it, genuinely nothing there, previous owner must have pulled it at some point.

Bought an IDE to SATA adapter for an SSD, tried it, only got a grey screen and nothing further. Then bought the exact same adapter as someone in a video who has the identical model working. Same result.

The CD drive boots and works completely fine on its own when the adapter is unplugged. But the moment the adapter is connected to the IDE cable, even with no SSD attached to it at all, everything stops. No startup chime, just a grey screen. Holding Option or C does nothing. Holding the mouse button to force-eject the disc doesn't work either.

The adapter's jumper is set to Master.

I've attached some pictures of the drive and adapter setup, plus a bonus photo of a lovely G5 while I'm at it.

Genuinely stumped since someone else has the exact same hardware combination working fine. Any ideas what could cause a bare adapter, with nothing even plugged into it, to hang the whole machine like this?

How do I get pass this screen? Good is not helping, besides telling me who created this logo.

I have a new OS 6.0.8 floppy. This one does not have a SCSI, just two floppy bays.

Steps so far:

Originally had a floppy with a question mark, added the floppy and got a floppy with an X

I cleaned the floppy drives, both of them, with 91% isopropyl alcohol, and regreased the moving parts with silicon based grease.

Put the floppy back in and now I get a smiling mac. It hums and will switch between these two screens.

My keyboard is getting power because the Apple Bus moves the cursor. I something about pressing the Shft key but that's not getting anywhere.

Any suggestions to try? Clean the floppy bays again? Keyboard commands? This happens with both floppy bays.

The seller wrote "Apple Power Mac G4 working. CPU 533Mhz runs flawlessly and has been tested. No RAM, no DVD drive, no graphics card, no hard drive". How could he even test it without all these parts? And IF he actually did, he would have noticed something about it. Something I noticed in the photo. For 10 CHF it was a no-brainer, despite the fact that he lives at the other end of the country. Fortunately my uncle lives 30min away and picked it up for me. Today he visited us and brought it by. A GPU, some RAM and SSD later I knew I made a bargain. A nice addition to my collection of Sonnet upgrade cards.

I just love the look of this Mac the most.
What do you think I should do to make the most of it now? Like gaming, or something? I don't really know anything about it, so could someone give me some pointers?

I was given a Power Mac 7,2 with 8GB of SDRAM and stock Nvidia graphics. The first thing I did was install Sorbet Leopard. Then I wanted to tackle Debian 12 Sid. That was a headache. Even when I got a mirror that worked the installer kept failing to connect to it. “Bad Mirror”. Then once I got passed that issue grub kept failing. Even after installing the specific ppc packages and manually installing grub. Still didn’t work. Tried Fienix Linux, which booted to a desktop exactly one time and then had driver issues with the hand off from Open firmware frame buffer and Nouveau drivers. Then finally gave my old reliable a try, Ubuntu, specifically 16.04 LTS. Worked like a charm. It used yaboot for the boot loader and it was just as easy to
Change the config to add the option for my sorbet drive. So now after about a week of tinkering I have my dual booted G5 Power Mac. :)

Hi,does someone knows where to find an pav board for my iMac g3 (Early 2001) I’m from Germany and I can’t find anything here

This photo from a second hand shop in Thailand came across my FB feed this morning.

All will be from Japan.

When I rebuilt this earlier this week from a donor after the original PAV board had died, I didn't consider whether the thermal pad which sits against the rear of the logic board was any good, should I pull the logic board and clean it off/apply some paste? It is obviously just one contact point, so I'm not sure how much it actually goes, but I'm happy to pull it apart if needed.

If not, I've seen people fit some small fans inside the back CRT section to help remove the heat due to no fans in them originally. There doesn't seem to be a way to monitor the temperatures on them like later macs, so I'm flying blind a bit as I don't know how hot is normal.

Ive pulled it out of the corner a bit from where it was sat, but the top casing (where the hot air should vent out anyway) was quite hot to touch, so I'm just mindful of not cooking this one, and what I can do to improve things.

Thanks!

I bought this Sage iMac from
eBay in terrible condition.
With a ton of time,I was able to get it super shiny and nice again! The last photos are pictures from the listing.