Any chance you work on IIFX motherboards that the idiot previous owners left to battery decay? I know there is at least one pad gone there and who knows what else. but the boards …

After my initial searches for the classic style Macs, it seems that one model, the SE/30 comes to the forefront because of the 68030 processor and 128meg upgradability for the RAM.…

Hello all, I am looking into getting a classic Mac to just 'play around' with in terms of games and I/O control. I never had a Mac before and I want something that is small and p…

The 8GB limitation was only for Beige G3s and Tray load iMacs. AFAIK the B&W G3 can have a partition of any size for a startup volume, and in any location on the drive. (th…

Any chance you OS 9.x partition is the first partition set? You might be up against the OSX 8 Gig startup volume limitation... Try repartitioning, and installing OS 9 on to a par…

For some reason I can only boot into OS9, if I select OSX in startup disk the mac will chime and it will not output video. Don't know why...

My Quicksilver is currently using a PCI card since it gave up its AGP GeForce2 MX for my Cube. (16MB Rage, but that machine is in server duty and only used over screen sharing,…

I've never dealt with an AGP Mac before, but I know for a fact that a PC with an AGP slot will quite happily run with only a PCI video card, so I can't see how a Mac would be any d…

Via a local kijiji seller: a 400MHz G4 AGP Graphics with 1GB RAM and a nice, quiet 20GB hard drive. It was filthy (smoker and dust) so it was disassembled and washed and is drying …

There were a handful of external monitor adapters for the SE but they were nothing like the ones made for the SE/30. One was by Radius for use with their portrait monitor. There wa…

Do not remove the band -- there's no non-destructive way to do it, and no real non-destructive way to reuse it, unfortunately.

Does your replacement CRT lack a band or something? Click to expand... I don't have a replacement CRT but I want to save the frame and attaching band in case I find one that do…

Does your replacement CRT lack a band or something?

All I can say after watching this thread is that I hope I never have to remove a crt from any of my compact macs. Learned a lot though! Thanks guys.

Going down the list looking at the different models and their conditions I don't think that lot is worth dropping $350 on even if you lived next door to him. You've got 5 MDD's the…

dont know about the band, and as far as the vacuum you can safely release it through the little spout it was formed with maybe someone can chime in on how to actually do it, becau…

I got the yoke off now (it just needed a little twist once the screws were loosened to break the grip of the glue). The only thing I need to get off now is the metal band around th…

Look up: Richard Martin Belleville, MI 48111 on LEMswap, he has tons of working g4 macs in lots cheap, pickup only if you are in that area.

If so, have a look at this: http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-10-POWERMAC-G4-COMPUTERS-MIXED-LOT-LQQK_W0QQitemZ110481109021QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b92ff01d#ht_334…

its glued on but removable, its glued on cause depending on how its twisted it will effect the orientation of the screen, once in the right place, plop

Ok, one other thing. Can I remove the yoke from around the long end of the tube and save it for parts or is it permanently attached? There are places where it looks there are dollo…

I usually use an insulated pair of pliers to remove my anode caps (the correct term for the "suction cup") from CRTs. I carefully use the pliers to pinch one of the two pincers inw…

Well I got it and had to open it up to see the upgrade board and it was in there, but it wasn't plugged in to the expansion slot! I also accidentally snapped the tail end off of th…

Hah, since when does the US Government (specifically the DOD) need a particularly good reason for anything? Here's a longish excerpt from an article written by a forensic data rec…

you can disconnect it from the crt, not sure about the board there's a pair of pincers in that suction cup that keep it in place, feel around the rubber, you should be able to fig…