i have an iMac G3 400mhz without a hard disk that starts fine (bong sound) but no display. i tried 3 different external VGA LCD monitors but none of them displa…
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Hi all, This is a newbie question — I have never done this before. What PCI card with video-in do you recommend? It will either go in my B&W G4 or into …
I received a PB190 with a 5300C screen, very nice machine in excellent quality. It came with a NIB Lapis Ethernet/Video out combo card, specifically stamped "Fo…
Hi, I'm currently restoring a Quadra 950 which I gather has not seen use for many years. It has an Apple PPC card in the PDS slot and Apple network card. I took…
The much unloved 4400 is not super easy to get info on like some models. Its all boiler plate stuff. But I want to be sure, did the 4400 ever come with a 604e? …
I'm missing the two terminator resistors on a 1990 Maxtor 7080SR 80 mb drive. They are 11-pin SIP (? I think that's correct). Does anyone have any thoughts on p…
Hello. I recently acquired a Mac SE FDHD and am having difficulty booting up. It switches on fine but just get the flashing question mark. So I created two Syst…
I didn't knew such a LCD screen existed for the Apple IIc... But here it is, and the people are bidding like crazy! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extremely-Rare-Apple…
Yesterday I replaced the PRAM battery in my Power Macintosh G3, which I thought would be a quick procedure, but it's turned into a whole new issue. The machine …
I recently did a repair of Duo Dock which had the "click of death", as it made clicking noises when plugged in. The main culprit is the PSU, where few electroly…
And if it does work, does it then allow the machine to run at the higher speed? Seems like it maybe ought to, but it also seems like the logic board in the 520 …
Hi all, In two days of work spread over the past couple of months, a friend and I have recapped two of my Macs. I haven’t tried the Q840AV yet and if I do I wil…
Hey guys, I'm new kinda new here. I have a Color Classic that I picked up at a thrift store 10 years ago I'm working on. I got a nice fresh recapped and tested …
I just recapped an old Quadra 660AV. Before a recap, the machine was dead, no chime, no video, just fan inside PSU was working. Old caps were leaking slightly, …
I recently acquired two 8100s with blown PSUs. One had a Delta, which I also described in other topic. The second has a MagneTek PSU (Made in Italy), which is a…
I have to strategically place my PCI cards for my recording rig and the best place to put my video card was in either slot 4 or slot 5, which is the last two sl…
I have a color pivot monitor model 0356. The focus appears to be off. If I turn the brightness and contrast down, the focus seems to improve, but they are too d…
My firend picked up a lot of old Macs that were sitting in a basement for last 10 years. Mostly from the 1991-98 era, including two Power Macs 6100. I fired the…
I'm comparing the specs and these machines looks almost identical, minus the CPUs that they use. The system bus speed is the same, it has the same amount of PCI…
Hello Guys, I have a Macintosh Performa 200, it has a good power supply, Hard drive, CRT.. everything is okay with it except the logic board. The logic board ha…
This was an interesting one. When it arrived years back, it had a slight issue with a flickering image that'd drop the green out from time to time. I stored it …
Hello My powermac G4 Quicksilver has a patterned ticking noise that appears to emit from the power supply even when the machine is switched off. Does anyone hav…
I have a Sonnet SATA card in a 9600 along with an SSD from OWC. In a real world test, I got about 10MB/sec transfer rate going from one directory on the SSD int…
My first new/old Mac in years! Ended up paying too much ($55) but it was local, and has the rear door (though on second glance, the latch seems to be missing--o…
In Apple's official documentation and other documentation on the Internet say that the Xserve G5, which has eight memory slots, can take up to 16 gigs using ECC…