Finally i have my portable working!
Just got it's logicboard back from it's 8,000 mile round trip to techknight (who i must thank for all the work he put in, removing all 32 ram chips not once, but twice!)
I put it all back together (amazingly i didn't loose any parts while it was sitting around disassembled), connected up a battery and hit a key on the keyboard and finally got a *bong* not followed by the chimes of death
. However i still had messed up video, a bit of fiddling around revealed there was a break in the display cable, once i got the cable in to correct position it booted up absolutely perfectly which revealed that it had been decommissioned in 1998! I was very glad to see the 1mb ram card it came with works fine, i had a horrible feeling it was going to have a dead ram chip on it like the portables motherboard did
It still has a couple of lines across the screen which i'm not sure if they are dead rows of pixls or a artifact of the break in the display cable, but i can live with them
Next step is to get my SCSI2SD installed in this and give it a clean install of OS 6, just need to find a 34pin ribbon cable....
Just got it's logicboard back from it's 8,000 mile round trip to techknight (who i must thank for all the work he put in, removing all 32 ram chips not once, but twice!)
I put it all back together (amazingly i didn't loose any parts while it was sitting around disassembled), connected up a battery and hit a key on the keyboard and finally got a *bong* not followed by the chimes of death
. However i still had messed up video, a bit of fiddling around revealed there was a break in the display cable, once i got the cable in to correct position it booted up absolutely perfectly which revealed that it had been decommissioned in 1998! I was very glad to see the 1mb ram card it came with works fine, i had a horrible feeling it was going to have a dead ram chip on it like the portables motherboard didIt still has a couple of lines across the screen which i'm not sure if they are dead rows of pixls or a artifact of the break in the display cable, but i can live with them
Next step is to get my SCSI2SD installed in this and give it a clean install of OS 6, just need to find a 34pin ribbon cable....