i did notice some super glue built up on some spots as if there was some wires glued etc… oh well i just left the residue, its not hurting antyhing. I've seen worse, a guy from ca…

classic II is about 60 to 65% ( working from only a re-cap ), and this board here had some pads torn clean off. what ever you are re-capping. if works except for faint sound… seem…

Like I said again and again, recapping a Classic II seems to bring back 90% - 95% of them from the Shimisa Screen Grave! So in you recapping the board, fixed what that guy could no…

Over the past couple of months i recently got 2 macintosh II's complete, with hds and floppy drives as well as video card.  Of the two one has the tiny silver cylinder looking caps…

I am trying to work on a g4 mdd dual 1.25ghz tower, for someone.  When plugged in no power.  I did take apart the power supply and from what i can tell a ceramic disc capacitor ble…

I am working on as complete of list as possible for compact Macs and their many variations. With small notes. There have been some posted here and there, but nothing very comprehen…

Uni certainly is the guy to tell someone how their soldering job is! Appreciate it very much! Just a note: The CII wasn't mine, someone else had tried to fix it but I never really…

yup i got a SE/30 and a Classic II from compunerd, i can tell that he very much progressed in his soldering once he got to the se/30. got the Classic II going, was pretty interest…

Appreciate it! Thanks!

good news Elfen...........its always worth the effort in the end - hope she lives for a long time

A few weeks ago CompuNurd had a SE\30 board for sale that he recapped but could not get it past a grey screen and mouse pointer after a bong. I decided to buy it, it sounds to be i…

unity said: Odd. So basically you have to machines on two displays that do not work - if I am distilling this right. I mean you tried to displays, two main boards, two video…

Good pick up, TheDoctor - you might be on to something  Hope you get there AichEss.

I suspect this is the problem. If you are installing Mac OS 9.1 on a PowerBook 3400 running Mac OS 9.04, you must perform the installation without updating your hard disk dr…

Yes

Thank you for your reply. So, I'll try to use the old original 603 ev processor card I got in the 8600, boot the system, then load the software of Maxpowr G3 an then re install th…

Go slowly. Install some known working RAM. Remove all PCI cards other than video. Reset CUDA. Go for a walk and make a cup of tea. And clean the plugs on the PSU, test them for…

Nice! Glad it helped!

Is the RAM installed the right configuration - and have you done a CUDA reset (just press the button for a second)

Thanks for the tip ScutBoy! I just had to turn the middle one a little bit and the image is stable! See the video: http://youtu.be/8zKdirmhL4c

Odd. So basically you have to machines on two displays that do not work - if I am distilling this right. I mean you tried to displays, two main boards, two video cards. Right? And…

Is the cable good? No bent pins?

Can't even get to the point of being able to boot unfortunately... It powers up the screen just after the startup chime without displaying anything then just drops it back to power…

You try reinstalling the OS, or swapping with a drive with a known-good OS?

So, my latest conquest has still not successfully run under it's own steam yet and I am beat as to why. It will chime, and will power up the monitor (I have tried both my old Phil…