Broke Down and bought what i want for a CHANGE!!

Brand New 24" iMac

It's every-bit as amazing as you think!!

New 20" Dell CRT Flat Trinitron... Amazing Resolutions.

i saw these buttons on EBAY ... they are the best.

So, anyways atleast i got a use out of all my labor.

i have a LCD imac ... kinda cool.. but my iMac ATX thing fried.. It made a horrible noise and then would not turn on.. so i must have hooked something up wrong. Or the power supply was not giving the imac the right voltages. ether way.. i will not be attempting a iMac => ATX Conversion unless for some odd exotic reason i need to but i seriously doubt it.

I got a 15" LCD screen custom fit into the iMac :)

it works! it works! The iMac ATX conversion. Done!

Now, all i have left to do is put this imac all back together and retrofit a 15" LCD into the spot where the CRT was :)

that will be a little later.. for now i need all the adhesive to set up before i move stuff around too much!

The cats got a present.

A pretty good idea indeed, keeps the cats occupied :)

iMac KITTY BED!!! They love it TOO!!

Check out these pictures...

haha...











If there is a market for them i can make them and sell them.. :)
let me know...

iMac Firmware Fuck-UP... ;-(

This is what happened, all the iMac's came with os 9.1 Ok?..... And this is the funny quark that the 350 mhz first slot load macs has... wow get ready guys... man... OK !! I wanted to install OS X on it... So i pop the CD in and reboot holding the " c " key that tells open firmware to boot from the Optical Drive... So anyway, it boots just as it should, well kinda slow because it only has 128 ram, Anyways, It gets to the first install screen asking you to select your language, and i did... Then it comes up with a screen that says " This Mac's Firmware is not up to-date " Please update... and then it gives a restart button. So i said ok cool... hit it and it went to a blank screen and sits there. Well after like 5 min i am like WTF... its still at this screen. So i do what anyone would do... I hold the power button for 10 seconds and it shuts down... Aint no harm in that... RIGHT???!??! hehehe...

Well so i think to my self... Lets boot this puppy back into os 9.1 and update the Ol Firmware then... well i hit the power button and i got no screen... Totally Blank... I herd the Mac Bong... and i hear the hard drive goin ... so i *ASSUMED* that maybe i fried the monitor capacitors(not un-common)(because of heat issues sometimes) because i set the imac on the bed at my moms house to work on it (blocking the ventilation). It was very hot so i let it cool and still NO screen. So i said oh well i fried it and took it apart!.


And Turned out pretty ok because i used a few parts to make some other macs look better and sell for more.

However... I have a total of 4 of those(iMac 350 *pre* Firewire) So here it goes... I tried to install panther on another one just like the one that i thought i TOASTED... And it did the same fucking thing... I thought HEY what the hell is going on here.
So i did some digging online... and sure enough... You know that fine print that you never read ... it says in the " Before you install OS X " Documentation that Warning if you install os-x and you do not have the latest firmware, bad things can happen (basically) :) and yes It had appeared that something bad had happened... MY screen is blank.!!! I guess if you get technical the os x with the older firmware does something to the video that in turn sends a signal that the monitor cant understand.. i am sure all you pc guys had have had similar when you attach a shitty older monitor to a newer pc and when it gets to windows it says monitor out of range if its a nice one or its just blank... just like the iMac...

So what i ended up doing, (reading the various fixes for this syndrome) pulling out the hard drive ... throwing it in a mac that works, putting a mac VNC server on it and then throwing it back in... and doing a firmware update from a remote computer... then it reboots and WALA you have screen again... It was kind of a lengthy fix but its funny how i assumed and i was wrong... but at-least I made a ass out of my self and not anyone else LOL I guess the moral of the story is read the "before you install docs?" ;-) Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lol.

Sold! 5600.00

The cheap asses only bided it up to 5600.00 I tell ya.. it must be a tough economy.
Well i made money on the deal... not as much as i was hoping for.. I try to not be dishoniest.
if would have got more if i fixed the cammo and replaced the hour and tach with new ones that
say " zero "... but i sold it and i have a clear conscience .

I used my new truck !!!!

450 miles round trip... I had to go to Columbus ohio to pick up a load of iMac computers. I set the cruise control she drove like a caddy there and back... 18 to 21 mpg avg.





18 imacs total... Yup that is quite a few.. :-D
they all work... except one i messed up, I over heated the piss outta it,
the monitor stopped working. I learned from my mistakes...
do not set the imac on the bed.. it covers up the air intake for cooling!!!!!!!! :-P

Sold the s-10 and got me a RED Chevy V-8 Sport

I love this truck, its the one i have always wanted.

Short Box - Bench Seat /w Arm Wrest
350 5.7L V-8 Fuel Injection
700r4 - 4l60 4 speed automatic with Converter Lock up.
A/C
Cruise / Tilt Steering
Power Windows
Power Locks
Electronic Climate Control
Premium Sound With graphic Equalizer
3" Exhaust with high flow muffler
235 R 15 Michelin Tires /w Wagon Wheels
4:11 Gear Ratio with Limited Slip

This Truck Rocks!
63K miles