I have a PM 9500 Motherboard that I am pretty sure works, but if you want it, it's Free+shipping to you from Omaha, NE 68132 USA Let me know

Maintenance? HDD: file defragmentation/file-directory repair/archiving files (to maintain less than 85% fullth [a technical term]). Break-and-make of all connector-socket junctio…

Ram yes, changing it out did not work, one of the first things I did. Was using 4x 128mb dimms, interleaved. Battery is full 3.6v. El Nino? lol

And if this wasn't about PowerPCs, I'd mention the holy grail of clones - the Radius SkyLab :O

Id go for a PowerWave Stargate with Nubus/PCI. } just because nubus is teh win

Battery? El Nino?

Have you tried different RAM?

Hello again. I am still searching for a reason as to why my Kansas 9600 logicboard bit the dust a few months ago. I ran this machine since new, almost 12 years(or more) of service …

Nice conquest! FWB Hard Disk Toolkit is one of the better third-party hard drive formatters out there. It formats really quickly and can make multiple bootable partitions (unlike …

Quite a good program that one - I have version 3.5. Definitely a must-have for anyone with an older Mac and non-Apple HDDs. Good score.

I've got a few copies from my apple technician days in the 90's. It's nothing special, but it works when nothing else will. Just be sure to read up on any bugs in the release you h…

All I can say is that it works very well - I have version 4.5 and it does the job.

After hearing about it for years I finally bought a copy of Hard Disk Toolkit. It's version 2.0 and the manual is a hulking beast of a book. I've used just about every other hard d…

In case you frequently deal with stacks of floppy disks, consider to copy them onto a harddisk drive. A System 7.1 installation runs great from a harddisk, as long the contents of …

Well, still, you may want to open the case up and give the hard drive a good whack.

Thats the plan once i get some, use 1.4's. Anyways got Ramdoubler, bomb shelter and MS Word 5.1a on it for now, it should make a nice little note taking machine. Thats it's officia…

Thanks for the confirmation that I should do the analog boards too. I've heard of "Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets" - while Alibris has somone selling a new copy for $9…

The 1.4MB and 800k versions of System Update 3.0 are exactly the same, but on different size disks. There are some Macs that can run System 7.1, such as the Mac Plus, early SE's, a…

It probably takes a bit of getting used to, this is the first time i've ever played around with any pre os 7.5 system so it should be fun. On another happy note, the PRAM battery s…

To be frank, it's not basic at all with the right software. Here are some useful addons: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/71more.html

I got 7.1 pro installed. Should i get the update from apple or is it pointless? Its gonna have to wait till i get some floppy disks... My hard drive icon changed from the little la…

Thanks for the confirmation that I should do the analog boards too. I've heard of "Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets" - while Alibris has somone selling a new copy for $9…

What are folks' opinions on doing pre-emptive replacement work on the analog board? Click to expand... It's a must, really. Capacitors that are over 20 years old and very susce…

So I did a little more searching, and here are the motherboard capacitors used in a 128k: 33µF 16V, 2 pieces 4.7µF 35V, 1 piece Got that info from here: http://retromaccast.ning…

Thanks for the tips! I'll contact trag regarding the SE/30 caps. However, that still leaves the Mac 128k, and capacitors in power supplies/analog boards in these compact Macs. I…