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Outbound laptop help needed — #2

Probably way too late... And the link above doesn't work. But if it's a Laptop Model 125, you hold down the four arrow keys simultaneously. However, the keyboard has its own bat…
68kMLA Hardware by trag Mon, 2 Aug 2010 - 23:31

DVD in a Quadra? — #13

For the record, the first Mac to use ATAPI optical drives was the LPX-40/Tanzania motherboard design used in the 4400 and Mac clones.
68kMLA Hardware by yuhong Mon, 2 Aug 2010 - 04:47

DVD in a Quadra? — #12

You can certainly use DVD-RAM with old 68k Macs... I was doing it for years as a backup medium for my SE/30. You need "DVD-RAM Tune-Up" which is abandonware (and very hard to find…
68kMLA Hardware by TylerEss Fri, 30 Jul 2010 - 06:47

1400 G3 upgrade questions — #20

I cannot find this driver anywhere and my vimage card is worthless without it (slower than the originally installed 166mhz 603), so would someone here send me the driver, please?
68kMLA Hardware by fmwolf Sat, 24 Jul 2010 - 16:28

upgrading Apple Colour Classic — #27

ok so my 575 pcb come and i have fited it but no sound put the old cc pcb in i have sound 8-o .. i can see the sound go up and down and the top menu flash when the vol is a…
68kMLA Hardware by galaga Sun, 18 Jul 2010 - 02:26

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #19

Adding an ICS9178 is also how one converts the Turbo601/66 into a Turbo601/100 (well more like 90 to 96). Click to expand... So, You're the one behind the Turbo601/66 chipping…
68kMLA Hardware by trag Thu, 15 Jul 2010 - 16:47

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #18

You know, yes original 601 ppc's look awesome.. but yeah.. was remounting the heatsink on my new 9150 board today and cracked the chip- why? because it doesn't actally touch the bo…
68kMLA Hardware by defor Thu, 15 Jul 2010 - 06:20

IT BURNS! — #23

i had an imac slot load 500mhz fail from heat. I never could fix it so i trashed it. it would power up just fine, but then after a little bit, you could see the picture pulling in…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sun, 11 Jul 2010 - 05:16

IT BURNS! — #22

I've blown one PAV assembly in a G3/600 from excessive heat. The machine still worked, but it took a while to build up the required charge for a successful illumination of the tube…
68kMLA Hardware by iMac600 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 14:06

IT BURNS! — #21

The Rev A-D (233mhz-333mhz) had the internal fans. The ones with 350mhz or higher don't have fans. Having a 333mhz and 500mhz indigo the only problem I found was burning discs. I …
68kMLA Hardware by mac-man6 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 07:20

IT BURNS! — #20

it wasnt much of a problem back then, but nowadays the hot-cold-hot-cold of convection cooling, or poorly fan cooled components have a tendency, and a strong one at that to break t…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:35

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #28

your going to have to take a magnifying glass and light to the logic board. the smoke may had very well come from a circuit trace opening up like a fuse. seen it a few times. if it…
68kMLA Hardware by techknight Sat, 10 Jul 2010 - 05:02

LC520 accelerator — #19

left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic / Someone here might even want it Click to expand... viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13785
68kMLA 68k by Bunsen Fri, 9 Jul 2010 - 13:01

LC520 accelerator — #18

Yea, it is unfortunate that they released the Color Classic at the same time as the LC III, but they based it upon the much slower LC II! What is even worse, the Color Classic II t…
68kMLA 68k by yuhong Thu, 8 Jul 2010 - 22:06

LC520 accelerator — #17

Your left-over 520 motherboard is a plug-and-play upgrade for a Color Classic. It's not a huge leap in power: 16MHz '030 --> 25MHz, and 10MB RAM limit --> 36MB, but …
68kMLA 68k by Bunsen Wed, 7 Jul 2010 - 23:16

LC520 accelerator — #16

If you get an LC575 board, make sure you also get the back panel off an LC575 Click to expand... In fact, Apple once sold both in an official LC 575 logic board upgrade for the…
68kMLA 68k by yuhong Tue, 6 Jul 2010 - 20:15

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #27

RAM went to hell? In my Classic, when one of the RAM modules went to hell I saw the same behavior. Each boot was a crap shoot.
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 5 Jul 2010 - 20:38

PowerBook 150 Failure. — #26

Well, I plugged it in today for giggles, and whaddya know, I got a chime and the mouse screen. I get varying results though, like sometimes i get chimes of death, and once or twice…
68kMLA Hardware by Mars478 Sun, 4 Jul 2010 - 20:11

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #12

I need to load Gauge Pro on my new Wallstreet to see if ASP was on crack when I checked the thing out. : It's gonna be Beater2 when I'm done loading utilities and drivers on th…
68kMLA Hardware by Trash80toHP_Mini Fri, 2 Jul 2010 - 02:47

Wallstreet and PDQ information thread — #11

I recently obtained a Wallstreet II PDQ 300MHz running OS 9.2.2 with 192MB RAM & an 8GB hard drive with 4.6GB free. I have a G3 Pismo 400MHz running Tiger quite good. I was…
68kMLA Hardware by mike-stock Wed, 30 Jun 2010 - 08:01
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