Well... Me an JRL are working out a deal. So, yep. Thanks for the help.

From Craigslist for 20.00 MINT... He thought it was broke, it just needed a pram battery. Originally it was 30.00 got him down to 20.00 Upgraded the CPU (From eBay) for 10.00 to …

Thanks for the tips! I contacted trag so hopefully he gets back to me soon! I searched around but couldn't find a tutorial on how to do this efficiently. Could you possibly point m…

another trick is to tack solder a thin piece of wire tween the two sides and then heat up the wire melting both sides @ once I have not tried it yet, and in theory it seems like i…

Just curious, how did you remove the old capacitors? Click to expand... Not very well!! I wound up lifting the copper foil in a few places. It still works okay, but I'm going t…

What software were you using to recognise the card and format/mount it? If nothing else works its usually best to try FWB Hard Disk Toolkit. Also its worth trying different brands …

I recapped my classic II, its not that hard to do. Click to expand... Uh, although true, saying that and nothing more is not very helpful for anothrgrnworld. I'm pretty certain…

I recapped my classic II, its not that hard to do.

Well, if you just toss in random sticks, then there won't be a display at all I believe. You have to have a matching set of four. So don't toss out that Radius card! :O

...or on any machine really... I have a couple of IDE <-> CompactFlash card adapters, but I only have one chintsy 32mb compactflash card from like 1999/2000; when I …

I'll try some matching sets. There are just random sticks in there. The Radius card, display absoulutley nothing. I think it may be toast.

Thanks I did do that and cleaned up the smudges and it seems to be working better albeit still intermittently. Now sometimes when I boot it I get no sound and the disk drive doesn'…

The "leaking capacitors" problem afflicts many compacts. A standard troubleshooting step for these models is to open up the Mac and carefully inspect the logic board for telltale s…

that just means you didnt kill the internal power supply, logic on the other hand is a very fragile thing, you basically shunted 5 volts down a (less than) 3 volt data line and mos…

It is powering up. To a black screen. The floppy is getting power as well.

So after days of waiting for my Macintosh Classic II which was shipped to me via Parcel Post I finally got it! It started up perfectly the first time but after that every other ti…

Not sure why you reflowed all 2,000+ joints. Click to expand... False hope and I needed something to take my mind off things for a few hours.

Just to try helping, how many RAM sticks are there? The reason why the Macintosh IIcis might not be giving video is because you don't have matching sets installed. Find a set of 4…

It can kill it very easily if it causes the wrong voltage to end up in the wrong place, or something horrible like that. If the machine's not powering up at all, its more than just…

Damn. Is it possible to replace a dead component instead of the whole board? How can putting in the IDE Connector incorrectly fry the board?

The machine made a burning smell...unfortunately i'd say its toast.

I like the Mac Plus, it was the first Mac I owned, getting it in 1990.

heh a good reason to own a goodwill toaster oven, but yes last on the list

I just got word that an acquaintance has finally managed to pry loose a long-promised classic Mac. I had no idea what to expect from this or when (if ever) I would get it - the fir…

Im not Jim! Could it be the single fuse on the logic board? How dead is it?