I received a dead iMac G5 yesterday. It is a 2004 17'' model. When I got it, the unit powered on and chimed, but when the backlight came on it flickered and the…
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Greetings. I have a MacClassic that I"ve been working on. You can skip down to my specific questions in BOLD if you like. I had about 10 MacPlusses, a MacClassi…
I want to do an entire analog board recap for my Mac Classic II. For the PSU part (there is a big group of caps, and you can see a green stain around the board …
Well I have a Performa 475 here, got this one from jt. First time I flipped the switch I get a somewhat slow death chime. If I turn it off an on quick I get a h…
So, my good ol' temperamental Classic is at it again. After the time of success of booting from the ROM (hard drive is still dead and unconnected) to be able to…
I made a System 1.0 boot disk from a PowerBook 170 using a high density 1.44mb floppy diskette. It boots and works fine on my Macintosh 128k using an external A…
I did something stupid You know the type of fly back transformers that don't have the bleeder resistor? That caused a big problem for a motherboard that was wor…
As Supertramp said: "Dreamer... you know you are a dreamer"... Who knows... maybe there is still a copy of the holy disk somewhere?
I had finally gotten my old Mac 512Ke together after a mildly successful floppy reapir, and after about 1 hour of use it started going crackle crackle and then …
I just picked up a IIci system, my first acquisition in a while. According to the previous owner, it was working as of about two years ago. When I power it up n…
Hi! Unfortunately school took away the free time I had during the summer, but now I'm (almost) back, thanks to the Christmas holidays! I thought it would have b…
Hello all! I'm glad I could find a classic/ vintage Mac site that was still operational. I need some help. I just resurrected my beloved Mac IIcx. Got it used f…
Hello everyone. This is my first writing on this site. First, let me starting by letting you know that im not good in english, as you see. My question is someth…
I am going to start replacing the line filter cap (big round one) in TDK PSUs every time I do a recap. I see it is rated at 180uF 385WV..? What is a suitable re…
Just recently, I did some work for a client who paid me with what I thought was a Powerbook Duo 280c and a Duo MiniDock. Knowing the 280c was a 68k Mac (my firs…
Just received my FREE Duo 250 from BMOW and he said last time he used it, it worked fine. I grabbed a tested Duo charger off eBay, but I cannot for the life of …
hi, I have a PowerPC 6100 that worked fine up until a month ago. Now, when i turn it on, the HD initially spins (i.e. its getting power) but the screen doesn't …
Five or six years ago I made preventive recapping on both my LC & LCII before leaking appears... They were still working fine since (Pram battery never …
Has anyone managed to boot a 540c off of a PCMCIA Rev C. card cage on System 7.1.1? I'm trying right now, and I keep getting a bomb involving "System" - "Bad F-…
I know there are numerous discussion on the topic of discharging CRTs for compact Macs. however, I have found conflicting information regardin the propwer groun…
Yesterday I visited an auction from a small company that sold kitchens and went bankrupt. As it turned out, the owner well, to say the least, liked Apple Comput…
So I boot up my Mac SE/30 and 32 bit mode is off and its not seeing all of the memory installed. I select 32 bit mode, do a full shut down, reboot and its fine.…
So I found a discount electronics shop/surplus shop, with a huge selection of old and new stuff. This place is amazing, the people are nice, the prices are fair…
I got an email last week from my electronic surplus shop, I almost skipped over it, but I figured they may be having another sale or something. It turns out, th…