I.43 GHz eMac

I.43 GHz eMac came with 10.4 installed.
I need it to run in 10.3.6.
I installed 10.3.4 from a retail OS installer and while the installation went okay, my display output is only 800x 600... and that is the only choice in the Displays preferences pane.
I realize that I am probably missing the right driver for the video card (ATY, RV351) but I have no idea where I can find such that will work under 10.3.6.
I have also net-installed 10.3.6 a baseload which was created on a 1.25 GHz eMac but this had an ATY,RV280 card installed and clearly this driver doesn't do anything for the ATY, RV351.
I don't want to copy drivers from 10.4 to 10.3.6.
Can anyone advise what I need to do to get the full options, and a full display (I have a much reduced dispaly area at present - 1.5" of black space around the edges).
Thanks in advance.
And yes, we have a site license for OS X. This is is a school and our standard load is 10.3.6 so we cannot move to 10.4 yet.... otherwise we would.

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Upgadeability of a 1.42 GHz eMac

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Hi, you may be limited to what hard drive you can install internally according to this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
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I think my CD drive is dead-can I hook up an external CD drive to my Emac?

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Hi, im new to this forum. im 15, and i have an eMac (MAC OSX 10.3.9.)
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EMac Freeze still

I find myself in the same boat as those using these 1.25 Ghz eMac's, and getting very frustrated.
I find this to be quite a puzzler, have tried all sensible propsects to bring this to a conclusion.Yes, it started with the appearence of "the unrepairable permissions". Even if it involves changing the logic board.... I'm in this for the distance. Everybody that I 've seen responding have reported that this trouble BEGAN approx. 1 month ago. Me too. The January sotware update seems to have instigated this trouble. My computing world was on quite an even keel until THAT update was made. NO freezing = smooth running OS X.3.9 right up to that point.
Have attempted MANY suggested "work-arounds". Ran Apps to isolate = to no avail!! (all is well) Ran applejack, ran memtest. Update ATI driver
Yes, it does appear to get better just after running the radeon ATI updater. But, it still froze while saving a edit to a 3 meg AIFF file with SoundStudio this morning.
I'll be watching the discussions for the days to come, it sure looks as if there are quite a few folks out there in this mess.........

I've noticed that some one has said the answer has been found....
in the "using your eMac" forum area, the star is applied to the posting about the freezing video display.... ???
So, what ? is it some kind of general consensus that the logic board replacement must be what the answer is?
I've read thru all the responses several times, I can only assume that this is what somebody figured is the reason and said "yep, there's the answer !"
I guess all I can do is , STILL, register my complaint with Apple and keep hoping.
The freezing up has improved dramatically after udating the ATI Radeon video (drivers?)....crap
Where as I would freeze several (20 to 30 times) daily, today I have had only 2 happen today. (so, far) I'll be checking the Olympics this evening, we'll see what happens then.

EMac having issues waking from sleep

I used to own a 1 gig eMac. I never had an issue with it, now that I have sold it however, it's having this issue waking from sleep. The only way to get it back is to power it down by holding the power button.
When I had it, I had Panther running on it's main drive and Tiger running on a firewire drive. Regardless though, I can't see that being the issue (well I guess I can ... I don't want to believe it, but I guess I can). Now it's running Tiger on the 80 gig main drive. When he goes to wake it, the drive spins up but the screen stays dark, but if he holds the power button down it works fine. Go figure?
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Regards
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You might get a better clue as to what's going on by opening Applications -> Utilities -> Console, select system.log, and look for events timestamped around the time the eMac was put to sleep and again at the it was attempted to wake it. You might find something like:
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Restoring OS 10.1.4, 9.2.2 onto an eMac.

Hi, I have recently bought an eMac to use as an office machine but I am having trouble getting it to take the restore disks. It seems to be working fine with the later OS (10.5.6) but I want to be able to use it with both classic and OSX systems. Is there any particular trick to get my machine to accept the restore CDs?
Thanks, Pete.

Allan is correct. Mac OS X 10.5 dropped support for Classic. Your options are:
A.1. Clone your data.
A.2. Partition your drive.
A.3. Install 10.4.11 or earlier and install Classic from your restore discs, and recover from the clone your 10.5 data assuming it will fit in a smaller partition.
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C.1. If you have an 800 or 700 Mhz eMac, or one of these 1 Ghz eMacs:
M8950LL/A
C.2 Clone your internal hard drive.
C.3 Reformat your internal drive with Mac OS 9 drivers with these instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75275
C.4 Recover from the clone.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61802
C.6 Boot from Mac OS 9 on the machine with the Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk. When in Mac OS 9 and you are finished with it and want to go back to Mac OS X, select Apple menu -> Control Panels -> Startup Disk and select Mac OS X.
If your restore discs are damaged unfortunately you will be stuck without Mac OS 9 access at all until you can find the ones that definitively came with your model and vintage eMac.
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IMovie '09 on an eMac!

Almost two weeks ago I got my 1.42 GHz eMac to replace my dead 1.0 GHz model, and one of the things I did with this new one was take advantage of the graphics card being able to support Core Image by following this iMovie '09 hack:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/09...erbook-g4.html
So far, iMovie '09 is fully functional on my 1.42 Ghz G4 eMac. It does occasionally slow down a bit, but otherwise it works just like it's supposed to, almost as if I were running it on an Intel-based Mac!
I decided to give this a try, having used iMovie '09 at my college's TV studio on the new 24" iMacs we got last summer. I haven't used iMovie '08 that much (I've toyed around with it a bit at an Apple Store), but in some ways iMovie '09 is better than iMovie HD 6 in terms of editing and features (like the ability to select only parts of clips from the event browser to edit in the project, the YouTube uploader, the real-time transitions and effects, better color correction, picture-in-picture and greenscreen already included, etc.), and in a few ways it isn't (like the lack of some fancy video effects, the funky audio editing, not as good title control).
Any comments?
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YES! Thanks for reminding me. It's been a long time since I tried this and I'd forgotten I had to use Firewire. Thank you very much!

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I just picked up a 1.25 GHz eMac yesterday to run classic but it came with no CD's and a fresh install of tiger. I thought that I could use the Mac OS 9 installation CD's that came with my friends Powermac 997 MHz quicksilver, but it isn't letting me boot off of that CD. So I was wondering how to install it with this disk, if possible?

G'day Brannyth,
Unlike previous eMacs, the 1.25GHz could not boot from OS 9. It needs at least OS 10.3. So that's why you can't boot from the System 9 disk.
Looking around... the only way I can find to instal classic is using the original system discs that came with the computer...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2431?viewlocale=en_US
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Tex beat me on the draw!
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