My friend just gave me a G3 they had at his printing company that was going to be thrown out. It's not too dusty in side, although I haven't booted it yet. There's no hard drive an…

mix some thermal paste with gel super glue it is kinda brittle once dry but it took a hammer to knock it off the last gpu i tried it on (last time I used some silver stuff on a ge…

I use my pismo extensively. It started shutting off randomly, and I narrowed it down to the logic board by swapping parts with another Pismo. I ordered a new logic board on eBay …

I'm not sure about more time to work on it, but it will definitely be of good use to fix up a gutted bottom case of a 1400cs that is sitting around with a few extra parts for my pi…

Yeah, tried resetting the power manager. No help. It has now gotten to the point where it's not worth my time. I'd rather send it off to someone with more time to work on it; or…

Have you tried resetting the Power Manager? :?: The power-on-off behavior you describe doesn't sound like it's necessarily keyboard related. There's next to nothing that could g…

Also I'll be getting a 32mb module in the mail soon. Hopefully that will work.I'm also in the process of getting my hands on a ppc cpu that I can swap out on the 575 board.

I took the 550 board out and got the 575 board working without bus errors. I was doing the resedit hack wrong :-/ Overall the computer feels alot faster, I just need to modify …

Have you tried resetting the Power Manager? :?: The power-on-off behavior you describe doesn't sound like it's necessarily keyboard related. There's next to nothing that could …

It is worth trying to clean and lubricate your floppy drive mechanisms, as per instructions that can be found here and there, including from some of our members. I find that my flo…

I've had the 550 board in the Color Classic and it's working fine with it. I installed 512k of vram on the board and it has 8mb of ram so far, with Mac OS 7.6.1 installed. I bough…

IIRC, the 1400 uses a plastic hook that pushes a switch inside the bottom case to sense lid closure, rather than a magnet and reed. Try poking something non-conductive in the hole…

IIRC, the 1400 uses a plastic hook that pushes a switch inside the bottom case to sense lid closure, rather than a magnet and reed. Try poking something non-conductive in the hole…

Well, it was literally just the computer in the box. I was kinda disappointed. Oh well. The new RAM I bought also works in the Quadra. I'll keep a lookout on eBay for an acce…

If I understand what you have done and are trying to do, the problem is: a) that 8.1 will not run natively on the 550, and B) that, to my knowledge, you cannot use the ResEdit ha…

Well thats a disappointment, I was expecting you'd get everything...or at least most of everything, anyway.

Have you looked at the switch that tells the Mac when the lid is closed? That's often a reed switch and magnet. Reed switches have a tendency over time to get "sticky", and your 14…

Have you looked at the switch that tells the Mac when the lid is closed? That's often a reed switch and magnet. Reed switches have a tendency over time to get "sticky", and your 14…

A 470 uF mylar would be huge! Going up a step in voltage won't hurt, and may offer a bit better reliability, but the temperature rating is a better measure of how long they last. I…

I'd sure like to know where you bought your 128mb module. Mine fit fine, but the computer wouldn't boot, screen stayed black. I put the ram in the 575 motherboard and the 550 moth…

The OmniBook 300s are beautiful. Never been able to land one. I do have a OmniGo 700LX, but no phone for it, of course. I used a 95LX for a long time. A delightful little unit. …

The OmniBook 300s are beautiful. Never been able to land one. Click to expand... I've got one of those... apparently, there is still a bit of a community for them. I've been co…

It fit fine with the 128MB module? Both of my 128MB modules were too tall, I had to file off the screw peg in order for it to fit. Is the 550 RAM slot located in a different loca…

NICEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! You can do the glowing Apple Mod, where you change the color of the Apple. Those are great laptops, I have one in my collection, it's my mom's.

Nope, I pulled the 128mb out.