My current recommendation is to contact Apple and elevate the issue to a supervisor. The supervisor will almost certainly give you a free repair. Capacitor replacement is no longer…

Just try a different boot disk (i.e SuperBooter 7.5)

You fixed a bus error by washing the mobo? how would I go about washing the mobo?

As I've said in another thread here recently, I used to get this a lot with an LC 575...washing the motherboard took care of the problem. It could be cap related, or any number of …

I just wrote a System 7.5 NAD floppy to complete the OS 8 on LC III hack, anjd was gretted with "Sorry, a system error occurred. bus error to temoporarly turn off" blah blah blah..…

My current recommendation is to contact Apple and elevate the issue to a supervisor. The supervisor will almost certainly give you a free repair. Capacitor replacement is no longer…

So basically nothing has changed but you expect different results. Forums (and IRC channels) live and die by the carefull selection of rules and ENFORCMENT of those rules, not by …

My current recommendation is to contact Apple and elevate the issue to a supervisor. The supervisor will almost certainly give you a free repair. Capacitor replacement is no longe…

Bad things happen to all of us all of the time. Thing is, very few of them are tragedies. If we lose our job, we look for a new job. If we lose a friend, we try to make amends o…

Bad things happen to all of us all of the time. Thing is, very few of them are tragedies. If we lose our job, we look for a new job. If we lose a friend, we try to make amends o…

Any good old fashioned TV repair person could do it - you don't necessarily need someone who knows computers, you just need someone handy with a soldering iron and a good collectio…

I'll see what I can do...

Cheers. What "bad luck" are you talking about specifically? Click to expand... Bad things are happening to people, computers are dying for no reason... My PowerBook 150 died.

This is my favorite PPC machine, hands down. I affectionately call mine weirdway. I even used it as a sever for a bit. NetBSD & Linux run like a charm [as does OS9 &amp…

Here here.... Last time I posted about 68k I got the sugestion "don't use your 68k computer..... modern computers are much better" I post personal things on facebook/myspace/imee…

ProSel can switch between running programs??? I've been using it for ages and I never knew that! I guess I better RTFM MTOS on the other hand is a bit of a non-starter (for me) si…

Well, it seems like, from what I've noticing by what people type, that something terrible is happening in their lives and they are doing the best they can to not let it get to them…

heat is actually the main issue with that setup, with the SE case being nearly hermetic, and the Mini's fan having to do all the job. Click to expand... I took another look at …

Cheers. What "bad luck" are you talking about specifically?

Nice Announcement ~tl... I hope this actually works, and also you should do something about the Bad luck going around the Forums. Thanks for a great community and keep on truckin…

I have the IIsi Spigot with the rare double-header Nubus converter plus 030 PDS passthrough card

Some more thoughts about the airflow in a SE's case: I built my Macminitosh putting a Mac Mini inside a SE case. And heat is actually the main issue with that setup, with the SE ca…

I had one, nice machine. Heavy as all get out though. The power lead going to the drives stopped working, which basically made it useless unless I used another power supply. Gave i…

I have a Videospigot LC as well, but it sucks having to trade ethernet for it so I have yet to play with it. Click to expand... I hear that! I've also got th Radius Video…

Well guys (and girls), I think everyone here would agree that the atmosphere on the forum (and the Lounge in particular) has been a little sucky of late. I thought I'd take a few m…