Installed a Pioneer DVR-K05, it was fun !!!

Congratulations Kevin! I've done the same and loving it.

Now overclock your CPU, the graphic card and upgrade the HD to 100G then the fun really begins... My 1.42 works great at 1.58, graphic card running at +5% CPU and +14% Memory.

So the DVR-K05 is native supported in all the programs.
What version of Mac OS you have?

Thanks

How did you overclock your mini. Is it software, hardware, jello, what? And of course... ...is it safe?

Hello,

I was a little curious about this too, and was pretty sure most PCs overclock simply via software or BIOS.

After some quick checking, it appears the Mini has 4 or 5 little hardware jumpers/resistors that must be moved around. But, in the case of a 1.42 Mhz Mini being bumped up to a fairly conservative 1.58 Mhz overclock it looks like only one jumper needs to be removed, which could mean no soldering at all is required for us 1.42 Mhz Mini owners who want to do that.

Here's the link: http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/macmini/

Please let us all hear how it goes.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

If you want to overclock, then I'll start you off in a long long thread on the subject. Then you can join everyone pushing their mini's up to 1.75Ghz

Do you know if 10.3.x (Panther) will have support for this drive? I really have no other need to go to 10.4.x (Tiger).

When I was first looking at the Mac Mini my friend said to me don't be a fool you'll never be able to upgrade it - you'll be sorry in a few months.
Well I have now upgraded to 1GB RAM, OC'd the 1.25 to 1.58 and added the K05 superdrive. All I have to do now is add airport and bluetooth (which at the moment is on a BT dongle).

The OC'ing bit was done with the help of the other forums highlighted in this post - but that has now gone the way of the Dodo. And here is my question - "Does anyone know how to change the system profiler to show the mini @ 1.58GHz?"

Yeah,

I finally got around to overclocking a 1.42 GHz Mini to 1.58 Ghz and my System Profiler also shows "750 MHz" instead of 1.58 Ghz. But, that earlier link in this thread did mention that a 1.58 GHz overclock seems to show that error.

Otherwise, everything has been good on this first day. While I was there, I also placed a 60 GB Hitachi/IBM TravelStar 7200 rpm HD in the Mini that I had in a PowerBook. Things do seem a little perkier, but I have a few more updates to do to OS 10.3.9 before I'll know how much speed gain there was.

The jump to 1.58 GHz for a 1.42 GHz is not so great. I don't think I'd do it to a 1.25 GHz Mini, though.

The process for the overclock and HD upgrade did take a couple hours or more, at a leisure pace with breaks, too. It took little more than the T8 Torx, a couple fine Philips screwdrivers, a strong magnifying glass, and some finesse. There is only one tiny little jumper (#R351) to remove from the bottom-side of the circiut board to go from 1.42 GHz to 1.58. But I wouldn't dare try to hit a speed that required soldering to bridge any of those connectors, since it's tricky enough just to remove them. I actually used a new fingernail clipper to snip off the tiny jumper.

This French-English Mac website has some added info for the braver ones:

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2005-05-12/#4038

So, those of us at 1.58 GHz on our Mini may be stuck with the System Profiler reflecting an erroneous speed. Which reminds me of that old hair coloring commercial for women, which says that "Only her hairdresser knows for sure."

Peace to you all,
C. Livingstone

Im on 10.4.2

and if anyon wants the info for updating the profiler let me know!

Sure, Denzil,

That would be helpful, as I'm in the same boat as you, so to speak.

Peace,
C. Livingstone

Here you go Christian...

http://www.byodkm.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-3402.html

I followed the last post by DanielNTX and it worked fine.
You have to make sure you get 100% right - print ou the instructions first then follow!
Good Luck!

Great,

I was a little nervous trying it, as I've done no command-line stuff affecting firmware, but I followed it to the letter and it worked like a charm. One thing though, the new CPU speed is reflected correctly now at 1.58 GHz, but the bus speed also now shows 1.58 GHz via System Profiler, which I don't think is correct, not that I care much, though.

Thanks for this helpful information.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

Hi Christian - glad it worked, sort of anyhow.
Not sure what the deal is with the bus speed - did you use he instructions from DanielNTX's final post or the first post he made in that thread.
Here is the info I get from my profiler now...

Hardware Overview:

Machine Name: Hack the Mac
Machine Model: PowerMac10,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.58 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.8.9f1

How did y'all take out the resistors? and, for those that overclocked the graphics, did you see an improvement? when I did it the machine seemed to performed more sluggishly...

Gmas.